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Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN), whose subsidiaries operate as Franklin Templeton, generates a steady flow of news across public and private markets, making its BEN news feed relevant for investors, advisors, and market observers. As a global investment management organization serving clients in over 150 countries, Franklin Templeton issues updates on assets under management, product launches, private markets insights, and strategic initiatives across its specialist investment managers.
News for BEN commonly includes monthly and quarterly reports on preliminary assets under management, detailing allocations across equity, fixed income, alternatives, multi-asset strategies, and cash management. The company also announces earnings release dates, teleconferences with senior executives, and commentary on financial results, providing context on business performance and flows across its platforms.
Franklin Templeton’s communications highlight developments in areas such as digital assets and tokenized finance, including tokenized money market funds, blockchain-enabled distribution share classes, and partnerships like the State of Wyoming’s Frontier Stable Token ($FRNT) reserves mandate. Updates from affiliates such as Western Asset Management, Benefit Street Partners, and Lexington Partners cover topics like institutional money market fund enhancements, private credit and real estate debt fundraising, and secondary private equity activity.
Investors following BEN news can also track corporate actions and governance items disclosed through press releases and related filings, such as dividend announcements, share repurchase authorizations, and information about the company’s multi-year strategic plan. For those monitoring trends in private markets, digital asset innovation, and global asset management, the BEN news stream offers a consolidated view of Franklin Resources’ latest announcements and perspectives.
Franklin Lexington PE secondaries strategy (BEN) surpassed $3.5 billion AUM in under one year since launch, reflecting rapid demand from global wealth-channel clients. The strategy launched to U.S. investors in December 2024 and expanded to Europe, Middle East, Latin America and APAC in March 2025.
Franklin Templeton advises the strategy, with Lexington Partners as sub-advisor, and the firm reports alternatives at 16% ($275 billion) of its $1.7 trillion total AUM as of January 31, 2026.
Franklin Templeton (NYSE:BEN) and Binance launched an institutional off-exchange collateral program on February 11, 2026, enabling eligible clients to use Benji-issued tokenized money market fund shares as off-exchange collateral for trading on Binance.
The tokenized assets remain in regulated custody via Ceffu while their value is mirrored on Binance, aiming to reduce counterparty risk, preserve yield, and improve capital efficiency for institutional traders.
Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN) reported preliminary month-end assets under management of $1.7068 trillion as of January 31, 2026, up from $1.6840 trillion at December 31, 2025.
The month reflected positive market performance and approximately $1.5 billion of long-term net inflows, inclusive of about $1.5 billion of long-term net outflows at Western Asset Management; excluding Western, long-term net inflows were approximately $3.0 billion. Western Asset Management preliminary AUM was $216 billion, versus $217 billion at December 31, 2025.
Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.33 per share, payable on April 10, 2026 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 31, 2026. The dividend equals the prior quarter and represents a 3.1% year‑over‑year increase.
Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN) reported net income of $255.5M (diluted EPS $0.46) for Q1 ended Dec 31, 2025, versus $163.6M a year earlier. Adjusted net income was $378.4M (adjusted EPS $0.70). Total AUM reached a record $1.684T, driven by $28.0B of long-term net inflows. Alternatives fundraising was $10.8B; the company completed the Apera acquisition and repurchased 1.8M shares for $41.9M.
The company emphasized disciplined expense management and continued investments across ETFs, SMAs, Canvas, and private markets.
Franklin Templeton (NYSE: BEN) launched Intelligence Hub, a modular AI-driven distribution platform powered by Microsoft Azure to modernize U.S. Distribution and improve sales effectiveness. The platform centralizes data, automates list generation and meeting prep, integrates with Dynamics 365, and follows a multi-month pilot that reported measurable efficiency and engagement gains.
Planned evolution includes role-based personalization, agentic workflows, real-time cross-system intelligence, and expansion to other business lines and regions.
Western Asset Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund (NYSE: WIW) announced an updated portfolio management team effective January 27, 2026.
The named managers responsible for day-to-day oversight are Michael Buchanan, Amit Chopra, Frederick Marki, and Nicholas Mastroianni. The release notes that data and commentary are informational, Franklin Resources and affiliates do not sell Fund shares, and hard copies of audited financial statements are available free upon request.
The Fund trades on the New York Stock Exchange; share prices fluctuate with market conditions, may trade at a discount to net asset value, and all investments are subject to risk including loss.
Franklin Templeton (NYSE:BEN) launched the Templeton Emerging Markets Debt ETF (TEMD) on January 22, 2026, an actively managed ETF targeting interest income and capital appreciation from emerging market debt while dynamically managing currency risk.
TEMD will invest at least 80% of net assets in emerging market debt and at least 50% of net assets in U.S. dollar and euro denominated EM debt (and related derivatives). The fund can use derivatives to manage currency, rate and credit exposures and is managed by the Templeton Global Macro team.
Lexington Partners (NYSE:BEN) promoted three investment professionals to Partner, effective January 1, 2026. The new partners—Peter Grape (Boston, joined 2013), Simon Oak (New York, rejoined 2010) and Michael Skelly (New York, joined 2010)—are members of the Secondary team focused on origination, evaluation and execution of secondary opportunities, including partnership and GP-led transactions.
The promotions expand the Partner group to 28 members. On average, Partners have 20 years of private equity experience. Lexington has more than 200 professionals, including 89 investment professionals, across nine global offices, and the firm said the moves reflect its emphasis on developing talent internally.
Franklin Templeton (NYSE:BEN) updated two Western Asset institutional money market funds to support tokenized finance and GENIUS Act compliance. The Western Asset Institutional Treasury Obligations Fund (LUIXX) now invests exclusively in U.S. Treasuries with maturities of 93 days or less to align with the GENIUS Act stablecoin reserve rules. The Western Asset Institutional Treasury Reserves Fund introduced a Digital Institutional share class (DIGXX) for distribution via blockchain-enabled intermediaries, enabling on-chain recording, faster settlement, and 24/7 transactions while remaining an SEC-registered Rule 2a-7 money market fund. The moves target stablecoin reserve management and blockchain distribution as institutional demand for tokenized, regulated liquidity grows.
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