Ben Sopranzetti, Ph.D. holds the title of the Rutgers Business School Dean’s Professor of Business. He is a professor of Finance at Rutgers University and the vice chair of the Department of Finance ...

In addition, Franklin Mutual US Value (the Luxembourg-domiciled version of the strategy) adopted a virtually all-US mandate in 2016, resulting in a more concentrated, more volatile profile.

He joined Franklin in 1992 and began covering utilities for this strategy in 1998. He became comanager of this fund in early 1999 and lead manager in mid-2000 when former lead Sally Haff left.

Franklin Rising Dividends Fund earns a Below Average Process Pillar rating. The rating is held back by its parent firm's inferior risk-adjusted performance, as shown by the firm's average 10-year ...

Franklin High Income: Process upgrade bolstered by expanded team and strengthened research resources. Our research team assigns Neutral ratings to strategies they’re not confident will ...

Lead manager Serena Perin Vinton joined Franklin Templeton in 1991 and has managed large-growth funds for the firm since 1996. In that year, she was named a comanager of Franklin Capital Growth ...

Araghi's elevation to co-head of equity research has expanded her leadership responsibilities, raising questions about her bandwidth within the Franklin Equity Group. However, her reduced sector ...

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However, Christian Correa, a manager of this fund since 2018 and the chief investment officer of Franklin Mutual since late 2020, says the fund is less likely to hold as much cash or debt as it ...

Land, in turn, backs up Fromm on Franklin Natural Resources FRNRX. Land had support from analyst Peter Maletis for roughly a decade, but Franklin laid him off in 2019 due to cut costs, further ...

Our research team assigns Neutral ratings to strategies they’re not confident will outperform a relevant index, or most peers, over a market cycle on a risk-adjusted basis. Following Franklin ...

Franklin New York Tax Free Income Fund earns a Below Average Process Pillar rating. The process is bolstered by the experience of the management team, which averages 21 years at this fund.