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Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund continue to explore investment opportunities in China even as some other investors pull back from the world’s second-largest economy.

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson, who oversees the $1.6 trillion asset management firm, said she remains a huge fan of blockchain technology and sees exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds being on the blockchain during an interview with Bloomberg anchor David Westin.

Franklin Templeton is building an advanced financial AI platform and is working with Microsoft to drive the project forward.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to start cutting interest rates by the end of the second quarter despite recent «hotter than expected» inflation data, according to Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Investors' emotions may run high in 2024, especially in the realm of politics as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are poised for a rematch in this year's presidential election.

artificial intelligence and becomes a beacon for the world amid a tough geopolitical scenario, a panel consisting of Bill Winters, chief executive officer, Standard Chartered Bank, Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant, Jenny Johnson, president and CEO, Franklin Templeton and Rizwan Sajan, founder and chairman of Danube Group said Friday. Speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Fissures, Faultlines and Future – In Search of an Equilibrium’, they observed that the next few decades were India’s to take the lead as the economic driver of the world.

Franklin Templeton's top boss Jenny Johnson can't wait for the India opportunity to unfold where she believes the mutual fund industry has tremendous scope for growth and credits her fund management company for spotting the country's vast potential 27 years ago when it became the first foreign fund manager to start operations. «Only 5% of the population has mutual funds. So, we are incredibly excited about how the future is going to be,» said Johnson, chief executive officer of the $1.4 trillion global investment management giant. Johnson, who has lived in India briefly during her long career with Franklin Templeton, said she had really seen the country grow over the past 27 years. «There was a saying India grows at night while the government sleeps. I would laugh at that because I always believed there is huge potential in the economy. 56% of the population is under 25. You have a British-oriented legal system,» she said. Citing how remarkably things have changed, she said the country, which earlier faced headwinds because the government was blamed for slowing things down, now has a tailwind.

I think things like GIFT City is a great way, it is clearly an initiative designed to bring money into India and those kind of incentives are incredibly effective, says Jenny Johnson, President & CEO, Franklin Templeton. Edited Excerpts

Franklin Templeton has stepped into the digital asset arena with the launch of its spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF).

As Bitcoin soars to a striking $39,390, up by a significant 1.50% in the last day, the crypto community is abuzz with anticipation. This remarkable surge forms a crucial part of the broader escalation in the total cryptocurrency market cap, which has now eclipsed the $1.5 trillion milestone.

Jen Mair (pictured) joined Martin Currie in 2015 as chief of staff and general counsel.

Matt Harrison, Sandeep Singh, Julian Ide and Tariq Ahmad have all been promoted.

Tokenization is causing a significant shift in the traditional securitization process, according to Jenny Johnson, the CEO of asset management giant Franklin Templeton.

Securitization, a practice with over 50 years of history, is undergoing a dramatic transformation, believes Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest asset managers.

Global investment firm Franklin Templeton filed for a spot bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday,joining BlackRock, Fidelity and others in seeking to start the first bitcoin ETF.