Franklin Templeton’s suite of passive equity ETFs includes single country and regional exposures. Seeking to track market-capitalization weighted indexes developed by FTSE Russell, these ETFs are competitively priced, making them a low-cost tool for investors to implement active views across developed and emerging international markets.
Broad market international indexes are often weighted according to the market cap size of each individual country, which can leave missed opportunities and unintended biases as the performance and risk profiles across countries rotates. In a world reshaped by tariff uncertainty and a shift toward bilateral trade agreements, global portfolio risk has further disaggregated, as shown below. The ability to target individual countries and regions allows investors to customize their international exposure.
Risk measured by Barra Risk Model, which utilizes a factor-based approach, employing various factors to explain the risk and return of a portfolio. Barra Risk Factor Analysis incorporates over 40 data metrics. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Identifying which international exposures to target can be challenging. Explore Franklin Templeton’s investment perspectives for insights.
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Stock prices fluctuate, sometimes rapidly and dramatically, due to factors affecting individual companies, particular industries or sectors, or general market conditions. The Funds' investment strategies incorporate the identification of thematic investment opportunities and their performance may be negatively impacted if the investment manager does not correctly identify such opportunities or if a theme develops in an unexpected manner. By concentrating their investments in consumer discretionary-related, health care-related and information technology-related industries, respectively, the Franklin Disruptive Commerce ETF, Franklin Genomic Advancements ETF and Franklin Exponential Data ETF carry much greater risk of adverse developments and price movements in such industries compared to a fund that invests in a wider variety of industries. By focusing on particular sectors, including technology, the Franklin Intelligent Machines ETF carries greater risk of adverse developments in such sectors than a fund that always invests in a wider variety of sectors. Special risks are associated with foreign investing, including currency fluctuations, economic instability and political developments. As non-diversified funds, the Funds may invest in a relatively small number of issuers and, as a result, be subject to greater risk of loss with respect to its portfolio securities. These and other risks are discussed in each Fund's prospectus.
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