Franklin Templeton has bolstered its Luxembourg-domiciled Franklin Templeton Alternatives Funds (FTAF) range with the launch of the Franklin K2 Cat Bond UCITS fund and Franklin K2 Athena Risk Premia UCITS fund.
The objective of the Franklin K2 Cat Bond fund is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns and compelling current income over time with limited correlation to other asset classes, through investment in a portfolio of natural catastrophe bonds. The Franklin K2 Athena Risk Premia fund aims to achieve long-term capital appreciation with lower volatility relative to broader equity markets and substantially less correlation to traditional asset classes over a full market cycle by pursuing various risk premia strategies. The new funds bring the total number of liquid alternative strateg...
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