Often enough when we are spoilt for choice, it can be rather difficult to decide what we should eat or purchase from a consumer standpoint. Investing in the market is no different. Given the wide array of funds Tiger Brokers offers to our platform’s investors, we believe that many of our investors are confused as to which fund provider they should put their monies with to seek the best returns. Hence, we aim to provide our investors with more insights into the various fund houses through our article series ‘Fund House Introduction’. In today’s piece, we will interview @Franklin_Templeton to find out more about their specialty for our investors.
An introduction to Franklin Templeton
@Franklin_Templeton is a global leader in the asset management segment of the financial industry and is one of the world’s largest asset managers with an asset under management (‘AUM’) of USD 1.5 trillion. Possessing 75 years of experience in asset management and 1300+ investment professionals across 20+ countries, they are nimble where it matters – when it comes to investing globally, the firm adopts various strategies/investment styles across different asset classes and geographies. In essence, their methods allow them to be well-positioned to provide the solutions best suited to the unique needs of their clients.
What can Franklin Templeton bring to the table
@Franklin_Templeton's core focus is to deliver better outcomes for their clients – the reason why they built a world-class investment firm that aims to offer the best of both worlds: global strength and boutique specialization. The asset manager brings together an unmatched collection of independent specialist investment managers (SIMs) to provide their clients with deep expertise and specialization within and across asset classes, investment styles, and geographies. Furthermore, the firm boasts extensive multi-asset capabilities – Franklin Templeton brings to the table hundreds of strategies across active, smart beta, and passive approaches in a full range of vehicles, enabling them to give their clients the options best suited to their unique needs be it institutional or retail.
How the asset manager achieves the aforementioned is through their global infrastructure with at-scale capabilities in research, data analytics, and services which allows them to provide real customization – their unique value is based on three core differentiators namely, 1) being nimble where it matters, 2) unparalleled in their ability to customizeand 3) guidance from long term value creation
1. Being nimble where it matters: The asset manager’s unmatched collection of autonomous investment teams whose entrepreneurial, independent professionals cover asset classes from traditional to alternative strategies combined with their expertise in analytics, data and service make them uniquely agile.
2. Unparalleled in their ability to customize: The team at Franklin Templeton offers more than 200 investment strategies worldwide, bolstered by a dedicated investment solution team that draws from collective expertise and capabilities from their diverse organization.
3. Guided by long-term value creation: As a closely held public firm with a strong balance sheet, the asset management firm invest with a long-term horizon and remain focused on value creation for its clients. This is evident in their financial strength, history of innovation, and value-driven culture.
Is there a fund that investors should invest in right now and why?
Inflation climbing to multiyear highs giving global Central Banks the impetus to hike rates is a narrative well-telegraphed this year. Amidst the prevailing market environment, the technology sector has retreated substantially after two years of strong returns – long-duration assets are naturally more sensitive to changes in rates. Having mentioned that, the team over believes that pockets of opportunities are still evident within the sector – Massive digital transformationof the global economy and the Rise of the Metaverse is worthy of investing into.
Such is the case as the Covid crisis has brought the digital and the metaverse into sharp focus for investors and technology buyers – with the accelerated adoption of technology-related hardware and software, the team at Franklin Templeton believes that digital transformation will have a long-term positive impact on the broader market and hence should be considered as core in a portfolio. Hence, investors should allocate some of their monies to $FTIF - Franklin Technology A (acc) USD(LU0109392836.USD)$.
About the fund
The fund is managed by a long-tenured fund manager alongside a team of experienced technology experts located in the Silicon Valley in which they seek to achieve capital appreciation by investing at least two-thirds of its assets in equity securities of companies expected to benefit from the development, advancement, and use of technology.
Backed by their belief that the technology sector offers great potential over the longer-term horizon, the fund is positioned structurally in the digital transformation within the areas of AI, new commerce, SaaS & cloud computing to name a few, and holds exposure to active companies within the metaverse segment across hardware, blockchain, fintech, etc.
Investment philosophy wise, the fund adopts a barbell strategy which allocates its assets towards established and emerging public and private company landscape – these companies that the team chooses to invest in are generally leading digital disruptors that enables transformation and the rise of the metaverse.
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Hear from them
We will be speaking with @Franklin_Templeton on 11 May, 7pm, via Tiger Live or Zoom, as they weigh in more on Technology sector. Register now & Join us, as we discuss the following key pointers:
- What is Technology, and what companies fall under these sectors?
- What are the drivers of the Technology Sector?
- In such a fast-moving sector, how do investors stay ahead or be more cautious of the Tech companies?
- Is Technology still considered a disruptive sector?
- What is the correlation between interest rates and the Technology sector?
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