Brent Smith, CIO at Franklin Templeton’s multi-asset strategies segment, is departing after 18 years.
Smith joined the group in 1996 and was responsible for overseeing investments in the company’s multi-asset products globally.
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He was co-manager of the £960 million Franklin Global Fundamental Strategies fund and of the £48 million Franklin Global Equity Strategies fund in the UK.
The former fund has returned 26.1% over the past three years, compared with an average of 11.7% from its peer group and 26.4% from its composite benchmark, comprising a two-thirds weighting to global equities and one-third to global government bonds.
Franklin Global Equity Strategies has returned 13% over the past three years, compared with 20.9% from its peer group and 20.4% from its composite benchmark of two-thirds in the MSCI World index and one-third in the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
On both funds Matthias Hoppe has become co-manager alongside Tony Coffey.
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By GlobalDataFranklin Templeton Investment is a global California-headquartered investment firm with over $844.7 billion in assets under management on behalf of over 25 million private, professional and institutional investors, as of 30 September 2013.
