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About Franklin Templeton Digital Assets

A complete digital assets ecosystem.

Whether you’re an individual investor, financial professional or a blockchain start-up, we have the expertise and resources to help advance your digital asset investment strategy or business. From launching the industry’s first tokenized money market fund in the United States, to funding blockchain start-ups, we’re leading the way in innovation for the global asset management industry.

Why Franklin Templeton for digital asset investing?

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Blockchain-native operational expertise

In-depth knowledge of blockchain ecosystems gained by investing across the lifecycle of various protocols including:

  • Digital assets technology
  • Digital assets investment strategies
  • Early-stage blockchain venture capital
  • Node operations
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Franklin Templeton focus

  • Dedicated group of 50+ investment professionals
  • Operational infrastructure to support a full suite of digital asset investment offerings
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Global presence and deep industry relationships

  • Extensive experience with global securities regulators worldwide
  • Investment operations and distribution presence in 25 countries around the world

A team of seasoned digital asset and investment professionals

Roger Bayston, CFA

Executive Vice President, Head of Digital Assets

Mike Muir

Senior Vice President, Head of Digital Assets Technology

Anthony Pecore

Senior Vice President, Director of Digital Asset Management

Mike Reed

SVP, Head of Digital Asset Partnership Development

Our knowledge hub

Private equity secondaries: A primary allocation in an evergreen private equity portfolio

Private equity is at a turning point, with investors and advisors exploring the best ways to allocate across sub-strategies. There is a compelling case for private equity secondaries serving as the cornerstone of a core/satellite evergreen model.

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Private Markets Insights: Not a simple open and closed case

Evergreen and closed-ended / drawdown funds offer different paths to private markets - understanding their strengths can help investors optimise allocations.

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What do tariffs mean for commercial real estate and CRE debt?

Benefit Street Partners believes that although stock market volatility is unsettling, it is not a cause for concern in the CRE sector. Instead, we should expect increased demand for CRE debt investments over the coming months and quarters.

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Unlocking opportunities: Understanding the growing secondary market

The global secondary market has grown over the past three decades primarily because of the increased supply of capital committed to private investment funds, according to Lexington Partners. They believe the backdrop for the secondary market continues to remain attractive.

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Investment risks

Digital asset investments have historically been subject to greater volatility of returns with additional risks associated with the issuance, redemption, transfer, custody and record keeping of shares maintained and recorded primarily on a blockchain.

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