Reece Gray Birtles

Franklin Templeton Australia’s business strategy is to be a key provider of institutional and platform asset management services. They manage Australian equity, international equity and fixed-income. The firm bases asset allocation and their broadly diversified investment processes on in-house research. The firm actively manages risk.

Esemplia is an active, specialist manager which utilizes a core approach to select stock and generate alpha. They are an investment-driven manager which seeks long-term relationships with clients who wish to make a strategic investment into those strategies and participate in the growth of the asset classes within them. The firm's investment teams invest in the public equity markets of global emerging markets as well as in alternative investments. They employ fundamental analysis with a combined top-down and bottom-up stock picking approach to create portfolios, investing in emerging market equities. Esemplia's two specialist investment teams generate the inputs required to construct and manage the firm's portfolios. Their strategies can be implemented through a number of ways including segregated mandates and co-mingled vehicles.