Details

Industries

Financial Services,Hedge Funds,Professional Services,Wealth Management

Founded date

Jan 1, 1947

Number Of Employee

5001 - 10000

Operating Status

Active

Investor Type

PE,Venture Capital

Franklin Resources is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments. They have an extensive global presence, including offices in 35 countries and clients in more than 150. Their common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN and is included in the Standard & Poor’s 500:registered: Index.

Franklin Resources Inc. NYSE: BEN is an investment firm originally founded in New York in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN as in Benjamin Franklin, whom founder Rupert Johnson, Sr. admired. In 1973 the headquarters moved from New York to San Mateo, California.

The firm specializes in conservatively managed mutual funds. It offers products under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series and Fiduciary brand names. Like other large investment companies, the firm offers a wide variety of funds but is traditionally best known for bond funds under the Franklin brand, international funds under the Templeton brand, and value funds under the Mutual Series brand.

Franklin Templeton Investments has acquired 2 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Winfield & Company on Jan 1, 1973. They acquired Winfield & Company for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Jan 1, 1973 Winfield & Company		acquisition	—	Detail
Jan 18, 2018 Edinburgh Partners	Financial Services	lbo	—	Detail