Franklin Templeton launches EM sustainability fund

Managed by Chetan Sehgal and Andrew Ness

Franklin Templeton has launched a new emerging markets fund under portfolio managers Chetan Sehgal and Andrew Ness, with a focus on sustainability.

A sub-fund of the Luxembourg-domiciled Franklin Templeton Investments Funds range, Templeton Emerging Markets Sustainability will invest in a portfolio of 30 to 50 emerging market companies demonstrating good or improving sustainability criteria. TEMIT's Sehgal and Ness: Covid-19 vaccine optimism boosts investor confidence With the support for the wider Franklin Templeton emerging markets equity team, the fund will target capital appreciation through stocks whose products and services are aligned to one or more of the six positive outcome areas linked to the UN Sustainable Development...