Franklin Templeton Investments Employer Reviews

Productive and very nice culture!
A great way to learn about professional management in a well run company but not open to creativity

was temporary as a contractor, learned a lot and management was good, co worker was nice

My main responsibilities as an intern in Franklin Templeton's GTAA Group was directed toward using a new software called EndNote to organizing thousands of document, that they use in their financial modeling process, into certain taxonomies that makes future accessibility easier. Because I was primarily the only one using this software everyday I had – more... to manage my own workflow, yet keep a flexible and adaptive game plan to achieve my goals. Also, with management having demanding work schedules I had to be aggressive and work independently through obstacles, but used collaboration and teamwork to enhance my job duties. – less

The company has a tremendous focus on clients. Which is the bonus for the company. There's a lot of tenured folks in the company, that shows growth and potential.

Present portfolio construction and practice management assistance to advisors to develop strong customer relationships
Conduct proactive sales presentations to top and 2nd tier Financial Advisors highlighting the Franklin Templeton investment products and services.

Had a good work environment and projects to work on. 2nd level management needed some improvement. Salary was low for the level of expertise they demanded.

I learned so much and interacted with team members from all over the world. A truly global experience.

I enjoyed working with my colleague who had helped me a lot since this is my first job out of college. We worked well as a team and achieved common goal to produce efficiency for floating rate debt group.

Beautiful Peninsula campus, Café staffed my Marriott, ping-pong, basketball, easy access from Hwy 101, close to Hillsdale Shopping Center and CalTrain commute. Great management, supervisors and co-workers, dress casual, community service involvement.

Come in respond to emails and then do monthly, quarterly, and semi or annual reporting requirements.

This project is aimed at providing bankruptcy due diligence services to the consumer bankruptcy market. Also, maintaining its own proprietary web-based application called Legal Data Services. Legal Data Services affords attorneys access to information such as credit liability data, property valuations, property title information, NADA auto values, as – more... well as IRS tax transcripts. This project is developed on Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2005/2008, Ajax, Web services, Multithreading and MS SQL Server 2005. – less

Typical work days started with brief meeting with the team discussing the day's tasks.
Reviewing departments email requests.
update department's head on status of request from previous day

update and monitor project plan tasks and progress.

contact stakeholder for any need that might be an abstacle to accomplish project demands

The monthly bonus makes employees enjoyed their job. Because employees worked hard and well compensated

Sound Upper management with a clear vision that is communicated to all levels of staff.

• Coordinated and managed all department projects, system implementations, internal department testing and creating test scripts
• Analyzed, researched and solved problems with billing issues
• Supervised staff including performance reviews, time sheets, and delegated responsibilities
• Developed and maintained policies and procedures
• Trained current – more... and new staff on policy and procedures
• Created PowerPoint presentations and overhead slides for Division meetings
• Provided a high level of service to the Broker/Dealer community
• Initiated special checks for reimbursements
• Created user requirement document for new billing system
• Prepared monthly management report with monthly stats and issues
• Created and processed manual billing for the Division – less

Good company to work for. They have good benfit and good co-workers. Working environment is excellent.

A typical day would be running reports, taking calls, adjusting accounts, researching failed transactions and building relationships. I love everything about this job and place of employment.

I felt very easy working with FTI. Since it is a mutual fund company mostly depends upon the accuracy and productivity which i use to give 100%, hence i did not face any difficulty. I enjoyed giving trainings to my junior batches, helping them to get perfect with the process. Since i worked in India and FTI is a US based Co. i got to work at nights, – more... some times i felt it as a difficulty. – less

Was laid off in November 2001...have been trying to apply for other positions in the company with no success. Would like to work there again if I could. Great people and terrific benefits!!!

Good place to work. To short a contract. The staffing was for a short period of time.