{"id":12992,"date":"2026-04-13T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/12992\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:30:09","slug":"franklin-temple-launches-enhanced-index-range-for-uk-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/12992\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Temple launches enhanced index range for UK investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franklin Templeton has launched an actively managed core enhanced equity index fund range for UK investors, covering UK, Europe ex UK, US and global equity ranges.<\/p>\n<p>Officially launched on 10 April, the range will consist of the FTF Franklin Core UK Equity Enhanced Index, FTF Franklin Core Europe ex UK Equity Enhanced Index, FTF Franklin Core US Equity Enhanced Index and the FTF Franklin Core Global Equity Enhanced Index funds.<\/p>\n<p>The new strategies will be managed by Brett E. Risser, head of quantitative equity portfolio management, Jacqueline Hurley Kenney, head of solutions research and Adrian Chan, head of quantitative investments.<\/p>\n<p>This range is designed to stay close to the benchmark but seek incremental outperformance by combining manager conviction with factor-based investing.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/portfolio-adviser.com\/enhanced-passive-funds-break-the-mould\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Enhanced passive funds break the mould<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wang, head of EMEA investment strategy at Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, said: \u201cThe challenge we set ourselves was to utilise our active managers\u2019 proven skills by transforming their qualitative insights into a systematic factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy extracting this \u2018conviction\u2019 factor from managers\u2019 research-intensive stock selection, we can add a valuable extra layer of investment insight to an underlying process that remains systematic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This should increase the diversification within the portfolios, with the funds generally targeting a tracking error of around 1.25%.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Reeves, Franklin Templeton\u2019s head of UK wholesale, said: \u201cThe strategies are designed to complement both traditional index and active approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cBy embedding conviction within a quantitative framework, they can offer a cost-efficient alternative to full active management while retaining a disciplined approach to risk and diversification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"https:\/\/portfolio-adviser.com\/invesco-launches-us-enhanced-index-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> Invesco launches US Enhanced Index fund<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franklin Templeton has launched an actively managed core enhanced equity index fund range for UK investors, covering UK,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6113,6114,6115,6116,6117,6118,5,6119,6,6120],"class_list":{"0":"post-12992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-active-versus-passive","9":"tag-enhanced-passives","10":"tag-european-equities","11":"tag-franklin-templeton","12":"tag-fund-launch","13":"tag-global-equities","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-uk-equities","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-us-equities"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116397173921384946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}