franklin's US equity fund combines bottom-up and top-down approaches with focus on firms with exposure to a broad range of industries
As Franklin Templeton launches into the UK market via a Dublin base, it is using mirror versions of an existing Luxembourg range. One of these is the $690m Franklin US Equity fund, a diversified multi-cap, multi-industry and multi-style fund, run by Kent Shepherd. Since its launch in 1999, the fund has achieved a number one ranking out of 67 funds in the Luxembourg Equity US sector and is positioned third out of 144 funds in the combined Luxembourg and Offshore Territories Equity US sectors, according to Standard & Poor's. The fund picks stocks that have growth potential and focuses on...
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