Franklin Templeton builds on Putnam Investments range with US high conviction fund for UK clients

Around $169m in AUM

Franklin Templeton is set to introduce the FTGF Putnam US Research fund to UK investors, Investment Week can reveal.

The strategy offers investors exposure to US large-cap equities with an emphasis on "opportunistic" stock selection that reflects sleeve managers' highest-conviction ideas about industry-specific sleeves.  The Big Interview: Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson on 'the three Cs' of takeovers, agentic AI and alternatives It adopts a similar approach to the Putnam US Research Equity strategy, which was established in 1995 and has more than $2.4bn in assets under management (AUM) pooled across a raft of segregated portfolios. Franklin Templeton acquired Putnam Investments back in Janu...