MutualFundWire.com: Mann Rolls Out a $1.66T-AUM AM's Next 2 ETFs

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Mann Rolls Out a $1.66T-AUM AM's Next 2 ETFs

The folks at a $1.66-trillion-AUM*, publicly traded asset manager near San Francisco are adding two more active traded ETFs to their lineup. The fund firm now offers more than 70 ETFs with more than $50 billion in combined AUM.

Yesterday (October 23), David Mann, global head of ETFs and capital markets at San Mateo, California-based Franklin Templeton [profile], unveiled the launch of the Putanm International Stock ETF (PGRI on the NYSE Arca) and the Templeton International Insights ETF (TINS). Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC serves as investment advisor to TINS, while Boston-based Putnam Investment Management, LLC does for for PGRI, and London-based Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited (FTIML) serves as PGRI's subadvisor.

PGRI and TINS' inception date was Tuesday (October 21), and they both come with expense ratios of 55 basis points. TINS now has about $5.01 million in AUM**, while PGRI now has about $4.99 million**.

The PM team for PGRI includes Putnam's Vivek Gandhi and FTIML's David Morgan. The Templeton PM team for TINS includes:

Heather Abdinoor, senior vice president, portfolio manager, and research analyst;

Matthew Nagle, PM; and

Peter Nori, executive vice president, PM, and research analyst.

Mann puts the launch of TINS and PGRi in the context of "the continued evolution of Franklin Templeton's active ETF platform and ... commitment to offering investors access to high-conviction strategies in a modern, efficient structure."

"PGRI and TINS showcase the diversity of our specialist investment managers, giving investors two differentiated paths to international exposure; one rooted in Putnam's deep fundamental research, and the other powered by Templeton's proprietary global insights," Mann states.

"Our focus on durable businesses with strong management and sustainable advantages is especially valuable as investors look beyond US equities for diversification," Gandhi states regarding PGRI.

"By focusing on valuation relative to future earnings power, we can identify attractively priced companies across styles and geographies that are positioned to compound value over time," Abdinoor states regarding TINS.

TINS and PGRI are each actively managed, non-diversified series of Franklin Templeton ETF Trust. The new ETFs' other service providers include:

the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) as custodian, dividend-paying agent, and transfer agent;

Franklin Distributors, LLC as distributor;

Franklin Templeton Services, LLC (FT Services) as administrator; and

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent accounting firm.