{"id":267656,"date":"2010-08-12T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/uncategorized\/manulife-group-retirement-clients-gain-access-to-franklin-templeton-lifesmart-portfolios\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T14:45:00","slug":"manulife-group-retirement-clients-gain-access-to-franklin-templeton-lifesmart-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/products\/manulife-group-retirement-clients-gain-access-to-franklin-templeton-lifesmart-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"Manulife group retirement clients gain access to Franklin Templeton LifeSmart Portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manulife Financial Corp. has confirmed a new strategic arrangement with Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. that will make Franklin Templeton LifeSmart Portfolios available to Canadian group retirement clients who are interested in adding a target date fund to their retirement programs, beginning September 1.<BR><BR>\u201cLifeSmart Portfolios are a great addition to Manulife&#8217;s investment platform, giving plan sponsors a choice between two different target date solutions &#8212; one with risk overlay and one without risk overlay.\u201d explains Mike Collins, marketing vice president of group retirement solutions, Manulife (TSX:MFC).<BR><BR>Franklin Templeton LifeSmart Portfolios combine the benefits of target date, target risk and active portfolio management, providing strong performance potential with a simplified investment process for plan sponsors and their plan members.<BR><BR>\u201cFranklin Templeton&#8217;s reputation as a leading fund manager &#8212; with strong capabilities to provide a risk overlay on target date funds &#8212; positions the firm as an ideal collaborator with Manulife,\u201d says Duane Green, senior vice president for institutional investment of Franklin Templeton.<BR><BR><b>IE<\/b><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agreement gives plan sponsors a choice between two different target date solutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2312,2315],"tags":[2602,2940],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267656"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=267656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}