Franklin Resources
Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN) is a global investment management organization with over $1.6 trillion in assets under management as of September 30, 2025. The company operates through a single investment management and related services segment, delivering investment capabilities to retail, institutional, and… From the company’s description.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.
What Franklin Resources does
In the company’s own words
Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN) is a global investment management organization with over $1.6 trillion in assets under management as of September 30, 2025. The company operates through a single investment management and related services segment, delivering investment capabilities to retail, institutional, and high-net-worth investors across multiple jurisdictions worldwide.
Franklin Resources conducts its business through numerous specialist investment managers operating under distinct brand names including Franklin, Templeton, Putnam, Legg Mason, ClearBridge Investments, Western Asset Management, Brandywine Global, Clarion Partners, Fiduciary Trust International, Benefit Street Partners, Lexington Partners, Royce Investment Partners, and O'Shaughnessy Asset Management. The company's website is franklintempleton.com.
The company offers a comprehensive product mix across five primary asset classes: equity, fixed income, alternatives, multi-asset, and cash management. As of September 30, 2025, equity represented 41 percent of AUM, fixed income 26 percent, alternatives 16 percent, multi-asset 12 percent, and cash management 5 percent. Products are distributed through U.S. mutual funds, non-U.S. funds, institutional separate accounts, retail separately managed accounts, and other investment vehicles including exchange-traded funds and private funds.
Franklin Resources generates revenues primarily through investment management fees based on a percentage of assets under management, supplemented by sales and distribution fees, and shareholder servicing fees. The company maintains a global distribution network serving clients through direct relationships and financial intermediaries including broker-dealers, banks, and investment advisers.
The company's history spans over 75 years, with significant growth through strategic acquisitions including Templeton in 1992, Franklin Mutual Series in 1996, Fiduciary Trust International in 2001, Legg Mason in 2020, Lexington Partners in 2022, Putnam in January 2024, and Apera in October 2025. Franklin Resources operates as a well-known seasoned issuer and accelerated filer, subject to extensive U.S. and international regulation governing investment management, securities, compliance, and corporate governance.
Company details
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry (SIC)
- Banks & Brokers
- Headquarters
- SAN MATEO, CA
- Fiscal year end
- September
- CIK
- 38777
- SIC
- 6282
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Franklin Resources — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Franklin Resources · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Franklin Resources’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Franklin Resources’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 2 issues of Franklin Resources’s debt, $105.91M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 1.81%, maturing 2030 to 2051.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
All filings →Each filing opens into its own statements and disclosures here.
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