Franklin Templeton Launches Private Markets Model Portfolios With Corastone, Lowering Minimums for Advisors
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Updated · Markets Media · May 11
Franklin Templeton Launches Private Markets Model Portfolios With Corastone, Lowering Minimums for Advisors
3 articles · Updated · Markets Media · May 11
Franklin Templeton introduced Private Markets Model Portfolios built with Corastone to let financial advisors add private assets through a professionally managed, single-subscription structure.
The offering uses an SMA-style, single-ticket framework to cut operational friction in subscriptions, rebalancing, administration and ongoing management—areas that have historically limited private-market scaling in model portfolios.
Clients get direct exposure to underlying private-market funds rather than fund-of-funds vehicles, a structure Franklin Templeton said can improve transparency, support more frequent rebalancing and lower minimum investment per fund.
The portfolios draw on Franklin Templeton's broader alternatives platform, including Lexington Partners, Clarion Partners and Benefit Street Partners, as asset managers push to make private markets easier for wealth advisors to use.
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