Franklin Templeton Investments has announced portfolio management team appointments for three mandates, which are sub-advised by the Templeton Emerging Markets Group (TEMG) for Canadian investors.

The appointments, listed below, are effective April 3, 2017.

  • For the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, Chetan Sehgal will assume the role of lead portfolio manager and Carlos Hardenberg will be added as a portfolio manager. Sehgal is director of Global Emerging Markets/Small Cap Strategies for TEMG, while Hardenberg is director of Frontier Markets Strategy.
  • For the Templeton Asian Growth Fund, the fund’s current co-lead portfolio manager Allan Lam, director of Asia Strategy for TEMG, will become lead manager while TEMG portfolio manager Eric Mok will be added as a portfolio manager for the fund.
  • For the Templeton Frontier Markets Fund, the fund’s current co-lead portfolio manager, Hardenberg, will become lead portfolio manager. TEMG portfolio managers David Haglund and Ahmed Awny will continue in their current roles as portfolio managers for the fund.

These changes also impact the Templeton Emerging Markets Corporate Class, Templeton Asian Growth Corporate Class and Templeton Frontier Markets Corporate Class, as they invest in units of the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, Templeton Asian Growth Fund and Templeton Frontier Markets Fund.