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Franklin Templeton

Est. 1947
5,001-10,000 employees Financial Services

About Franklin Templeton

The Power of Partnership 

We drive client success through an unwavering focus on investment excellence delivered on a robust global platform. This is backed by investments in cutting edge technology and product innovation. In this way, our clients receive a consistent, coordinated experience and are empowered with an extensive range of specialized capabilities, all delivered through one trusted global partner. 

We’ve broadened our capabilities by attracting leading public and private market investment managers to our firm. We nurture and protect the investment independence of these managers while providing them access to capital, technology, risk management, and sustainability resources.  

Alongside our investment offering, we equip our clients with the tools, services, and knowledge necessary to actively plan for a better future. 

And with a 75+ year tradition of closely held family ownership, we continuously focus on stability, innovation, and long-term value creation. 

Above all else, we always stay true to our commitment to create better financial futures together.

Expertise

Private Markets, Equities, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset Solutions

Under the Macroscope: Trump-Xi summit—A tactical relief rally, not a strategic reset
  • 15 May 2026

Managing a strategic rivalry: Thoughts on the summit between US President Trump and Chinese President Xi from Christy Tan.

Hope is not a strategy: positioning for the reality of oil scarcity
  • 14 May 2026

ClearBridge Investments: The ongoing energy crisis is pushing global oil inventories, including many critical product inventories, toward all-time lows, and it may be time to position portfolios gi...

Hope is not a strategy: Positioning for the reality of oil scarcity
  • 14 May 2026

ClearBridge Investments: The ongoing energy crisis is pushing global oil inventories, including many critical product inventories, toward all-time lows, and it may be time to position portfolios gi...

Rethinking US equity exposure through sectors
  • 14 May 2026

Stock market sectors are diverging dramatically. Dina Ting explores what has changed in the past three years—and the past 20—alongside implications for investors.

Small caps deserve a closer look
  • 14 May 2026

In this episode of Talking Markets, Franklin Templeton Institute's Chris Galipeau and Royce's Frank Gannon examine the current opportunity in small cap equities. Against a resilient US economic bac...

Asian bonds—no longer just an EM trade
  • 13 May 2026

Western Asset: Asia-Pacific bond markets are increasingly recognized as a resilient and distinct asset class, offering investors the potential for attractive yields, stability and diversification b...

Quick Thoughts: Hantavirus—What investors need to know
  • 13 May 2026

Franklin Templeton Institute’s Stephen Dover offers a quick take on hantavirus and the relevance to health care stocks.

Beneath the surface, the US market is changing—from concentration to participation
  • 12 May 2026

Royce Investment Partners: Co-CIO Francis Gannon looks at how recent performance may be subtly announcing a turning point in market leadership.

Emerging markets: Cheap, growing and underowned
  • 12 May 2026

Returning from a recent global research trip, Putnam Portfolio Manager Brian Freiwald describes several trends that point to the potential for continued outperformance for emerging market equities.