Franklin Templeton hires alternatives specialist from Future Fund

Franklin Templeton FMOTY Future Fund Alternatives

31 July 2023
| By Laura Dew |
image
image
expand image

Franklin Templeton has hired a senior alternatives specialist from Future Fund.

Chenelle de Rozario Harding has joined the asset manager as a senior alternatives specialist based in Melbourne.

She joins from sovereign wealth fund, Future Fund, where she worked for 14 years in analyst positions on the alternatives team.

Franklin Templeton managing director and head of Australia and New Zealand, Felicity Walsh, said: “This appointment dovetails into our strategy to continue to expand Franklin Templeton’s alternative investment footprint in the Australian market to meet growing investor demand for greater portfolio diversification.

“Chenelle’s deep understanding of how allocators make decisions related to alternative investments for their portfolios allows us to have peer-level discussions with large asset owners in our market. Her strong relationships across the Australian and New Zealand institutional market are going to be invaluable to our team.”

Harding commented: “I look forward to working with the broader Franklin Templeton team to meet institutional and sophisticated investors’ demand for alternatives.

“Franklin Templeton is able to offer a full suite of alternative capabilities that includes private equity and venture capital, real estate, private credit and hedged strategies, many of which are customised to suit specific client requirements.”

Franklin Templeton was named as Fund Manager of the Year at Money Management’s Fund Manager of the Year Awards in June.

It offers a wide range of strategies to Australian investors, which it has been serving for 35 years, including managed funds and active ETFs across equity, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives. The firm also works with numerous affiliate firms, including Brandywine Global, Martin Currie and Western Asset, several of which were also finalists at this year’s awards.

The firm’s ClearBridge RARE Infrastructure Value Fund (Unhedged) won the 2023 Infrastructure Fund of the Year award.

Read more about:

AUTHOR

Recommended for you

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

3 days 21 hours ago

It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks 1 day ago

increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

4 weeks 1 day ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

2 weeks 3 days ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

2 days 18 hours ago

Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

1 day 21 hours ago