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Department Title: Undergrad Intern – Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions - Investment Research

Location: The intern candidate must be able to commute into either the Ft. Lauderdale, FL, New York City, NY, San Mateo, CA, or Boston, MA office on a daily basis.   

Position Summary: 

Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions (FTIS) is the investment group at Franklin Templeton that constructs portfolios that encompass multiple asset classes.

The FTIS research team is responsible for researching markets, managers and factors and providing actionable portfolio investment recommendations across those eligible universes.

Team Culture:

• The FTIS team is unique in that it maintains a global footprint, with a global multi-asset investment opportunity set, and leveraging insights from across the global Franklin Templeton organization.
• The team collaborates daily through in-person and online dialog intended to ensure constant communication.
• The undergraduate research intern will have regular direct communication with senior research analysts, the head of research, and portfolio managers.

An Undergraduate Research Intern at Franklin Templeton can expect to learn:

• A keen understanding of growth, inflation, policy, and sentiment factors and how they relate to asset class returns 
• Interrelationships between macroeconomic forces and market returns
• Implications of asset allocation recommendations on multi-asset class portfolio returns

Key Responsibilities Can Include:

• Researching and presenting various indicators for utilization within FTIS’s investment committee - the Investment Strategy and Research Committee (ISRC) framework. 
• Enhancing macro dashboards for ISRC.  Macro dashboards help set the broad backdrop and serve as the foundation of intra- and inter-asset class recommendations.
• Analysis of manager peer groups to determine which asset classes provide the best and worst opportunities to add value through active manager selection.
• Determining which metrics have the best correlation to forward excess returns for active managers and assisting with constructing a systematic scoring system for managers.

Ideal Qualifications:

• Coursework in finance, economics, and mathematics
• A keen interest in macroeconomic and market research
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Proficiency in excel is a must, experience utilizing Bloomberg is preferred, and Python coding skills are a plus

Ready to make moves? Apply today!

When applying, please be sure to attach your resume. Applications without a resume file attachment will not be reviewed.

Due to the large volume of applications anticipated, we may not be able to personally contact every applicant. If you are interested in applying to more than one Franklin Templeton internship, please apply for other internships that pique your interest.

Compensation Range: This is a full-time internship where students will work approximately 35 - 37.5 hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $28 - $47 USD per hour. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. At Franklin Templeton, we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation and benefits are taken into consideration in determining compensation. 

What makes Franklin Templeton unique?

We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture, and is an important element of how we achieve success.

We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals.

Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation. We invite you to visit us at Franklin Templeton Careers to learn more about our company, career opportunities and recruitment process.

Franklin Templeton is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. If you believe that you need an accommodation to search for, or apply for, one of our positions please send an email to accommodations@FranklinTempleton.com . In your email, please include the accommodation you are requesting and the job title and job number you are applying for. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only requests for accommodations will receive a response.

Experience our welcoming culture and reach your professional and personal potential!

Salary : $28 - $47