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...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....
...“You have this huge concentration of seven stocks, and that’s risky,” said Jenny Johnson, the chief executive of active manager Franklin Templeton....
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...My colleague Madison Darbyshire’s read on Franklin Templeton, from January, covered the same terrain but focused on a single firm....
...Franklin Templeton’s exchange traded funds attracted about $1bn in net inflows in the three months to December 31, lifting total ETF assets to $20bn, 40 per cent higher than a year earlier....
...The funds, which include those from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Invesco, have attracted net inflows of nearly $4bn, according to ETF.com....
...Two years ago Franklin Templeton launched a tokenised fund but had attracted only $360mn in assets by the end of March....
...So that’s a real disadvantage to an active ETF,” says Johnson of Franklin Templeton....
...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...
...Asset managers from BlackRock to Grayscale have launched an online advertising blitz for their bitcoin exchange traded funds, taking advantage of a change to Google’s marketing rules on promoting cryptocurrency...
...The inflows into 11 new bitcoin exchange traded funds that received US regulatory approval in January went into reverse this week....
...Mobius spent the bulk of his career at Franklin Templeton, where he launched one of the world’s first funds dedicated to growth economies in 1987, and grew the Templeton Emerging Markets Group’s investments...
...Franklin Templeton launched the first tokenised money market fund using the Stellar blockchain in 2021*. Others are following. Abrdn launched a tokenised sterling fund in the summer....
...Many firms have cut costs to deal with these pressures, with BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, M&G and T Rowe Price among asset managers that have reduced headcount over the past two years....
...It offers funds of funds that give institutional investors access to private debt, infrastructure and private equity strategies....
...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....
...Vanguard has no immediate plans to add spot bitcoin exchange traded funds to its platforms, the company said, even as trading volumes ramped up on rival platforms....
...“In the wealth channel, [sales] is a blocking and tackling game,” said Jenny Johnson, the chief executive of Franklin Templeton....
...“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...
...Franklin Templeton’s OnChain US Government Money Fund, launched in April 2021, was the first mutual fund to use blockchain technology to process transactions and record ownership of shares....
...The applicants range from large asset managers BlackRock, Invesco and Franklin Templeton to smaller firms such as Ark Investment Management and Bitwise....
...US start-up Koloma raised $91mn last year from funds including Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures....
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