Overall Morningstar Rating
Rating Category: Global High Yield Bond
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This is a marketing communication. Please refer to the prospectus of the UCITS and to the KID before making any final investment decisions.
Overview
- Summary of Fund Objective
- What Are The Key Risks?
- Scope Ratings
Summary of Fund Objective
To seek to generate high levels of income and, as a secondary objective, capital growth. The Fund mainly invests, directly or indirectly through derivatives, in below investment grade (high yield) corporate bonds. They may also invest in government bonds and in debt securities rated as low as C by Moody's or D by S&P. These investments may be from anywhere in the world, including emerging markets.
What Are The Key Risks?
The Fund does not offer any capital guarantee or protection and you may not get back the amount invested.
- The Fund is subject to the following risks which are materially relevant:
Asset-backed securities: The timing and size of the cash-flow from asset-backed securities is not fully assured and could result in loss for the fund. These types of investments may also be difficult for the fund to sell quickly.
Bonds: There is a risk that issuers of bonds held by the fund may not be able to repay the investment or pay the interest due on it, leading to losses for the fund. Bond values are affected by the market's view of the above risk, and by changes in interest rates and inflation.
Derivatives: The use of derivatives can result in greater fluctuations of the fund's value and may cause the fund to lose as much as or more than the amount invested.
Emerging markets investment: The fund may invest in the markets of countries which are smaller, less developed and regulated, and more volatile than the markets of more developed countries.
Fund counterparties: The fund may suffer losses if the parties that it trades with cannot meet their financial obligations.
Fund currency: Changes in exchange rates between the currencies of investments held by the fund and the fund's base currency may negatively affect the value of an investment and any income received from it.
Fund operations: The fund is subject to the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people or systems or those of third parties such as those responsible for the custody of its assets, especially to the extent that it invests in developing countries.
Interest rates: Changes in interest rates may negatively affect the value of the fund. Typically as interest rates rise, bond values fall.
Liquidity: In certain circumstances it may be difficult to sell the fund's investments because there may not be enough demand for them in the markets, in which case the fund may not be able to minimise a loss on such investments.
Low rated bonds: The fund may invest in lower rated or unrated bonds of similar quality, which carry a higher degree of risk than higher rated bonds.
Complete information on the risks of investing in the Fund are set out in the Fund's prospectus.
Scope Ratings
The scope rating reflects the most relevant return and risk aspects of a fund, which makes it possible to compare similar funds. For more information, see www.scopeexplorer.com/methodology.
Fund Managers
Performance
- Discrete Annual Performance
- Cumulative Performance
- Annualised Performance
- Calendar Year Performance
- Risk Measures
Discrete Annual Performance
Cumulative Performance
Annualised Performance
Calendar Year Performance
Risk Measures
Portfolio
Portfolio Allocations
- Geography
- Sector
- Currency
- Maturity
- Credit Quality
Geography
Sector
Currency
Maturity
Credit Quality
Portfolio Holdings
- Holdings
- Top Ten Holdings
Holdings
Top Ten Holdings
Pricing
Documents
Regulatory Documents
Key Information Document - FTGF Brandywine Global High Yield Fund LM USD ACC
Franklin Templeton Global Funds plc - Semi-Annual Report
Annual Report - Franklin Templeton Global Funds plc
Prospectus (Main) with country supplement - Franklin Templeton Global Funds Plc
Separate Prospectus - Franklin Templeton Global Funds Plc
Re: Amendments to the Base Prospectus and to Certain Sub-Fund Supplements
Important Legal Information
This fund meets the requirements under Article 6 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR); the fund does not promote environmental and/or social characteristics or have a sustainable investment objective under EU regulations.
This material is intended to be of general interest only and should not be construed as investment advice. It does not constitute legal or tax advice and it is not an offer for shares or an invitation to apply for shares of the Irish-domiciled Franklin Templeton Global Funds plc (the "Fund" or "FTGF"). For the avoidance of doubt, if you decide to invest, you will be buying units in the Fund and will not be investing directly in the underlying assets of the Fund.
Franklin Templeton (“FT”) provides no guarantee or assurance that the Fund’s investment objective will be attained. The value of shares in the Fund and income received from it can go down as well as up, and investors may not get back the full amount invested. Past performance does not predict future returns. Currency fluctuations may cause the value of a Fund’s investments to diminish or increase.
FT shall not be liable to any user of this document or to any other person or entity for the inaccuracy of information or any errors or omissions in its contents, regardless of the cause of such inaccuracy, error or omission. Any opinions expressed are the author's at publication date and they are subject to change without prior notice. Any research and analysis contained in this material has been procured by FT for its own purposes and is provided to you only incidentally. Data from third party sources may have been used in the preparation of this document and FT has not independently verified, validated or audited such data.
No shares of the Fund may be directly or indirectly offered or sold to residents of the United States of America. Shares of the Fund are not available for public distribution in all jurisdictions and prospective investors, who are not financial professionals, should consult their financial advisor before deciding to invest. The Fund may use financial derivatives or other instruments which may entail specific risks more fully described in the Fund's Documents.
Subscriptions to shares of the Fund should only be made based on the Fund's current Prospectus and, where available, the relevant KID, accompanied by the latest available audited annual report and the latest semi-annual report if published thereafter. These documents can be found on our website at www.franklinresources.com/all-sites, obtained, free of charge, from FTGF's registered office at Riverside Two, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2, Ireland, or can be requested via FT's European Facilities Service which is available at https://www.eifs.lu/franklintempleton. The Fund's documents are available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
In addition, a Summary of Investor Rights is available from www.franklintempleton.lu/summary-of-investor-rights. The summary is available in English.
The sub-funds of FTGF are notified for marketing in multiple EU Member States under the UCITS Directive. FTGF can terminate such notifications for any share class and/or sub-fund at any time by using the process contained in Article 93a of the UCITS Directive.
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Indices are unmanaged, and one cannot invest directly in an index. They do not reflect any fees, expenses or sales charges.
Important data provider notices and terms available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com.
Issued in Switzerland by Franklin Templeton Switzerland Ltd, Talstrasse 41, CH-8001 Zurich. Paying agent in Switzerland is BNP Paribas Securities Services, Paris, succursale de Zurich, Selnaustrasse 16, 8002 Zurich.
Please visit www.franklinresources.com/all-sites to be directed to your local Franklin Templeton website.
For further information on paying agents and representative agents of FTGF, please refer to the Fund's Prospectus.
Footnotes
The Linked ICE BofA Global High Yield Index reflects the performance of the Bloomberg Global High Yield Index from fund inception through 30 June 2022 and ICE BofA Global High Yield Index thereafter.
Effective 28 April 2025, the fund changed its benchmark to the ICE BofA Global High Yield Index.
The Ongoing Charges Figure (OCF) includes the fees paid to the management company, the investment manager and the depository, as well as certain other expenses. The OCF is calculated by taking the relevant main material costs paid out over the 12-month period indicated and dividing them by the average net assets over the same period. The OCF does not include all expenses paid by the fund (for example, it does not include what the fund pays for buying and selling securities). For a comprehensive list of the types of costs deducted from fund assets, see the prospectus. For recent all-in annual costs, as well as hypothetical performance scenarios that show the effects that different levels of return could have on an investment in the fund, see the KID.
For funds that lack 12 months of data, or for which OCF is not likely to give a fair idea of likely future costs, the figure shown is an estimate.
The charges are the fees the fund charges to investors to cover the costs of running the Fund. Additional costs, including transaction fees, will also be incurred. These costs are paid out by the Fund, which will impact on the overall return of the Fund.
Fund charges will be incurred in multiple currencies, meaning that payments may increase or decrease as a result of currency exchange fluctuations.
All charges will be paid out by the Fund, which will impact on the overall return of the Fund.The average credit quality (ACQ) rating may change over time. The portfolio itself has not been rated by an independent rating agency. The letter rating, which may be based on bond ratings from different agencies (or internal ratings for unrated bonds, cash and equivalents), is provided to indicate the average credit rating of the portfolio's underlying investments and generally ranges from AAA (highest) to D (lowest). For unrated bonds, cash and equivalents, ratings may be assigned based on the ratings of the issuer, the ratings of the underlying holdings of a pooled investment vehicle, or other relevant factors. The ACQ is determined by assigning a sequential integer to all credit ratings AAA to D, taking a simple, asset-weighted average of investments by market value and rounding to the nearest rating. The risk of default increases as a bond's rating decreases, so the ACQ provided is not a statistical measurement of the portfolio’s default risk because a simple, weighted average does not measure the increasing level of risk from lower-rated bonds. The ACQ may be lower if cash and equivalents are excluded from the calculation. The ACQ is provided for informational purposes only. Derivative positions are not reflected in the ACQ.