Franklin Templeton established an office in Bucharest in August 2009, with a team of 25 employees, including 6 locally based investment professionals who are further supported by the over 40 portfolio managers and analysts of the wider Templeton Emerging Markets team.
On 29 September 2010 Franklin Templeton officially took over as investment manager and sole administrator of Fondul Proprietatea. Launched in December 2005, Fondul Proprietatea was established to compensate Romanians whose properties were confiscated by the former communist government.
Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited is a subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. [NYSE:BEN], a global investment management organization operating as Franklin Templeton Investments. Franklin Templeton Investments provides global and domestic investment management solutions managed by its Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series, Fiduciary Trust, Darby and Bissett investment teams. The San Mateo, CA-based company has more than 60 years of investment experience and over USD 681 billion in assets under management as of 31 January 2010. For more information, please visit
www.franklintempleton.uk.
Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd.’s office in Bucharest is located at Premium Point, 8th floor, 78-80 Buzesti, District 1, Bucharest, Romania. Tel: +40.200.96.00, Fax: +40.200.96.31/32. For more information on Fondul Proprietatea, please visit
http://www.fondulproprietatea.ro.
