Energy Hedges the AI Trade
ClearBridge Investments: While the AI trade absorbs nearly all available investor attention, owning energy covers our absolute risk while creating the risk budget to cover the AI relative risk more effectively.
Global Equity Pulse: Industrials for Diversification: A Recovery Story
In this month’s Global Equity Pulse, Templeton Global Investments believes industrials may be poised for a cyclical recovery. Improving economic trends and long-term structural drivers are creating opportunities across select areas of the sector.
The Conviction Gap: What Most Advisor Portfolios Are Missing at the Core
Most advisor portfolios mistake active weight for manager conviction. Franklin Templeton's five-factor core equity suite fixes that, starting with a proprietary conviction signal that extracts what managers actually believe.
On My Mind: Rearranging the Debt Chairs
According to Franklin Templeton CIO Sonal Desai, the Treasury Secretary Bessent’s announcement of at least doubling the size of Treasury buybacks will not move the needle without a reduced fiscal deficit.
Making Sense of Bewildering Bonds
Stephen Dover, Head of Franklin Templeton Institute, explores what is driving the recent rise in bond yields, and what it means for investors.
The great inversion: Investment opportunities amid a new paradigm
For two decades, the United States consumed and China built. That division of labor has not merely evolved — it has inverted. The investment map drawn for the early 2000s no longer describes the next decade.
Chris Galipeau: Operation Twist
by Chris Galipeau, Head Market Strategist, Franklin Templeton Institute Macro Our real gross domestic product (GDP) forecast for…
Broadening Delivered. Now Prepare for Volatility.
Market leadership has broadened beyond mega-cap tech, but the next phase is likely to reward disciplined, diversified investors, write Chris Galipeau and Lukasz Kalwak of Franklin Templeton Institute.
Micro Over Macro
by Chris Galipeau, Head Market Strategist, Franklin Templeton Institute Macro Our real gross domestic product (GDP) forecast for…
Beyond Silicon Valley: Where AI Value Is Really Created
by Divya Mathur, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets, Franklin Templeton Key Takeaways We believe the AI opportunity…
July FOMC Recap—More Bark Than Bite?
The Fed held rates steady today as Chair Warsh’s tough talk on inflation failed to translate into action.
Agentic AI—The Killer Use Case for Blockchain and Crypto
To capture the AI growth opportunity today, most investors buy shares of AI-aligned companies and related verticals. But will the same playbook work for agentic AI? Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation explains.
The Long View: Not a Straight Line
ClearBridge Investments: Although markets often pause to digest after large gains, history suggests these episodes usually prove fleeting, meaning major indexes could move higher in the second half of 2026.
The World Didn’t Break: 2026 Mid-Year Investment Outlook
Midway through 2026, Franklin Templeton Institute’s Global Investment Outlook framework remains a valuable lens—but the landscape has shifted.
Global Investment Outlook—Resilience
A look at the resilient global economy, evolving market opportunities, and key risks shaping the investment outlook.
The Warsh Fed—Return to Orthodoxy
Kevin Warsh came out as a hawk during his first press conference as Federal Reserve (Fed) chair. Franklin Templeton Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai believes that he may be the most hawkish chair since Paul Volcker. Warsh stressed that the Fed can and will bring inflation back to 2%, and signaled his preference for a smaller balance sheet and no forward guidance—a welcome return to more orthodox monetary policy.