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...Traditional asset managers such as Franklin Templeton, AllianceBernstein and T Rowe Price have been racing to snap up alternative providers, including infrastructure, private equity and private credit funds...
...“You have this huge concentration of seven stocks, and that’s risky,” said Jenny Johnson, the chief executive of active manager Franklin Templeton....
...Two years ago Franklin Templeton launched a tokenised fund but had attracted only $360mn in assets by the end of March....
...BlackRock, the most successful of the new ETFs, had inflows of $527mn this week but others, such as Invesco, Franklin Templeton and Valkyrie, had minimal inflows....
...Bitcoin ETFs from iShares, Fidelity and Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management have taken in the most new cash since their launch, while similar products from Wisdom Tree, Valkyrie and Franklin Templeton...
...Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy rival Putnam Investments for more than $1bn as the California-based asset manager continues its expansion into alternative products and retirement plans....
...The regulator approved the ETFs from Ark Invest and 21 Shares, Bitwise, BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Grayscale, Hashdex, Invesco, Valkyrie, VanEck and WisdomTree....
...The new funds, which include those from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Invesco, have had net inflows of $871mn, according to data from CoinShares, a digital asset manager....
...“I think there’s actually going to be some pretty strong inflows out of the gate,” said David Mann, head of ETF product and capital markets for Franklin Templeton, which is among the groups launching spot...
...Earlier in June, Franklin Templeton said its new Franklin Income Focus ETF (INCM) would be managed by a team led by CIO Ed Perks that oversees almost $85bn of multi-asset income strategies, again their first...
...Asset managers including Franklin Templeton and T Rowe Price have also been snapping up private markets specialists as they seek to counteract the growth of ultra-low fee index funds....
...BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, T Rowe Price, State Street and JPMorgan Chase are among those working on new products aimed at helping retirees with what is known as “decumulation”, a process that economist...
...Fidelity International, Pimco, Axa, WisdomTree, Investlinx and Franklin Templeton are among other houses with inflows into actively managed ETFs....
...One such firm is US asset manager Franklin Templeton, which manages $1.4tn worth of assets....
...Franklin Templeton last year converted its only non-transparent ETF, the ClearBridge Focus Value ESG ETF (CFCV) into a conventional transparent vehicle, expressing confidence that it can “manage the fund...
...Passive giant Vanguard had been actively lobbying for a ban, while Franklin Templeton had noted that a ban would benefit ETFs....
...He was previously a senior managing director of alternative strategies at Franklin Templeton. Citigroup has promoted Flavio Figueiredo to global head of foreign exchange, based in New York....
...Caroline Baron, head of ETF distribution Emea, for investment group Franklin Templeton, thinks activity is changing rapidly even in “closed-architecture” countries such as France, where it has been so tax...
...BlackRock is among other firms that have taken a similar approach, announcing a partnership with neobroker Bux in the Netherlands last month, while Franklin Templeton partnered with Directa in Italy last...
...It’s a quick way to gain exposure to a whole series of bonds,” said Wylie Tollette, chief investment officer of Franklin Templeton Solutions....
...However, Dina Ting, head of global index portfolio management at Franklin Templeton, which launched a metaverse ETF in September, believes its real potential lays in combining the digital and real worlds...
...Meanwhile, WisdomTree, Principal, Alpha Architect and Franklin Templeton all have made significant tweaks to their families. Vanguard’s history with factor investing has been complex....
...Franklin Templeton, Axa Investment Managers and Fineco Asset Management have all recently entered the European ETF market, while AllianceBernstein is planning to do so, having recently launched its first...
...Together, the five asset managers which suffered the greatest outflows, in descending order — Vanguard, Fidelity, Pimco, Franklin Templeton and T Rowe Price — recorded $164.6bn in net redemptions during...
...AllianceBernstein last week announced plans to build its alternative assets to nearly $50bn with the purchase of CarVal Investors, and Franklin Templeton expects to top $200bn after it completes its acquisition...
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