Franklin Temp launches EM Balanced fund

The Luxembourg-domiciled fund will hold both emerging market equity and debt securities. Assets will be allocated to each side based on the fund managers' assessment of valuation, risk and opportunity. The fund's management team is led by Mobius, executive chairman of the Templeton emerging markets group, and Hasenstab, who is co-director of the international bond department and a portfolio manager in the firm's fixed income group. They will aim to add value through bottom-up analysis of sector, securities and issuers, as well as top-down economic analysis. Mobius and Hasenstab wil...