Franklin Templeton to offer digital asset strategy, open to US investors in mid-October

Asset management giant Franklin Templeton (Franklin Templeton), an asset management giant with an asset management scale of more than 1.3 trillion US dollars, will provide two digital asset independently managed account (SMA) strategies through the Eaglebrook Advisors platform in mid-October. The changing needs of wealth managers and their clients in this space. Of the two strategies, Franklin Templeton Digital Assets Core is a market cap-weighted strategy that invests in the 10 to 15 largest digital assets, excluding stablecoins and meme coins; Franklin Templeton Digital Assets Core Capped takes a similar approach, but maintains Some Bitcoin and Ethereum each account for 25% of the portfolio. Both strategies typically undergo monthly rebalancing. This week, Franklin Templeton also launched a Metaverse ETF "UCITS ETF" for European investors, which will track the Solactive Global Metaverse Innovation Net Total Return Index, which includes companies that have a significant impact on the Metaverse, such as payment companies Block, encryption investment company Galaxy Digital and game company Electronic Arts, etc.