- Franklin Templeton also wins Best Global Manager Operating in Australia award -
October 7, 2022: Martin Currie Australia, the active equity specialist investment manager of Franklin Templeton Australia Limited (Franklin Templeton), has been awarded Australia’s ‘Best Specialist ESG Fund’ for the Martin Currie Sustainable Equity fund.
Established in 2005, the Hedge Funds Rock + Australian Alternative Investment Awards honour investment management industry’s top performers, assessed through a combination of quantitative and qualitative factors annually.
At this event (held on September 29, 2022) Franklin Templeton was also recognised as the ‘Best Global Manager Operating in Australia’.
Martin Currie’s co-portfolio managers Will Baylis and Naomi Bant note: “We are delighted to receive The Australian Alternative Investment Awards for Australia’s Best Specialist ESG Fund. At Martin Currie Australia, we have a long history of incorporating our proprietary work on sustainability into our investment process.
“The Martin Currie Sustainable Equity Fund uses our fundamental insights from an experienced investment team to build a portfolio with high sustainable characteristics without forfeiting long-term financial returns. Our engagement with companies is key to our insights and investment philosophy.
"We believe companies that can transition to renewable energy solutions, improve the efficacy around their supply chains, and focus on reducing their impact on the environment will generate long term value for our investors while contributing to a more sustainable society, environment and economy," they note.
Franklin Templeton’s Managing Director and Head of Australia and New Zealand, Felicity Walsh commented: “We are proud of our established and experienced teams that strive to build well-performing portfolios that position Franklin Templeton as leaders in the industry.
“We are thrilled to receive this recognition from industry peers as winners in both categories for the Martin Currie Sustainable Equity Fund and our efforts as the Best Global Manager Operating in Australia.”
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Franklin Resources, Inc. [NYSE:BEN] is a global investment management organization with subsidiaries
operating as Franklin Templeton and serving clients in over 155 countries. Franklin Templeton’s mission is to
help clients achieve better outcomes through investment management expertise, wealth management and
technology solutions. Through its specialist investment managers, the company offers boutique specialization
on a global scale, bringing extensive capabilities in equity, fixed income, multi-asset solutions and alternatives.
With offices in more than 30 countries and approximately 1,300 investment professionals, the Californiabased
company has 75 years of investment experience and approximately AUD 2 trillion in assets under
management as of July 31, 2022.
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