Net Asset Value
$18.15
Market Price
$17.86
YTD Total Return At NAV
3.69%
YTD Total Return At Market Price
1.69%
Morningstar Overall Rating™ 1
Overall Morningstar Rating
Morningstar Category™: Canadian Core Plus Fixed Income
The fund's overall Morningstar Rating measures risk-adjusted returns and is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its 3-, 5- and 10-year (if applicable) rating metrics.
Morningstar Style Box
Source: Morningstar®. The style box reveals a fund's investment style. The vertical axis shows the market capitalization of the stocks owned and the horizontal axis shows investment style (value, blend, or growth). Placement is determined by fund portfolio holding figures most recently entered into Morningstar's database and corresponding market conditions. Shaded areas show the past 3 years of quarterly data. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Historical Morningstar Ratings
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Overview
- Fund description
- Reasons to invest
Fund description
The fund seeks a high current income and some long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in Canadian federal and provincial government and corporate bonds, debentures and short-term notes. The fund maintains an overweighted position in high-quality corporate and provincial issues, and an underweighted position in Canadian federal bonds. The fund may invest in foreign securities.
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Reasons to invest
- An experienced bond investor. The Calgary based investment team has decades of experience managing fixed income strategies with a Canadian perspective and is a part of the larger Franklin Fixed Income team with over 200 fixed income investment professionals around the world.
- Lower portfolio risk. Adding bonds to a portfolio can lower volatility by providing added stability and a regular stream of income, which is reassuring in any market environment.
- “Core Plus” Investing. The fund’s primary investment focus is on core bonds issued in Canada with the potential for enhanced returns through global diversification.
Portfolio Managers
Performance
- Annualised Performance
- Calendar Year Performance
- Cumulative Performance
- Risk Measures
Annualised Performance
Calendar Year Performance
Cumulative Performance
Risk Measures
Portfolio
Portfolio Allocations
- Assets
- Sector
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Assets
Sector
Currency
Portfolio Holdings
- Holdings
- Top Ten Holdings
Holdings
Top Ten Holdings
Distribution
Pricing
Documents
Fund Literature
Factsheet - Franklin Canadian Core Plus Bond Fund - ETF Series-CAD
Portfolio Holdings - Franklin Canadian Core Plus Bond Fund
Product Commentary - Franklin Canadian Core Plus Bond Fund
Flyer - Active Fixed Income ETFs
Flyer - Franklin Canadian Core Plus Bond Fund
Regulatory Documents
Annual Report - Money Market, Fixed Income & Balanced Funds
Franklin Templeton – Fixed Income and Balanced Funds
Semiannual Report - Franklin Templeton Funds
Quarterly Product Disclosure
Semiannual Management Report of Fund Performance - Franklin Canadian Core Plus Bond Fund
Annual Management Report of Fund Performance - Franklin Canadian Core Plus Bond Fund, Annual Management Report of Fund Performance, Annual Management Report of Fund Performance
Point of Sale Fund Facts – Franklin Canadian Core Plus Bond Fund ETF Series
Important Legal Information
Performance data represents past performance, which does not guarantee future results. Current performance may differ from figures shown. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate with market conditions, and you may have a gain or loss when you sell your units.
Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the prospectus or fund facts document before investing. The indicated rates of return are the historical annual compounded total returns including changes in unit value and reinvestment of all distributions and do not take into account sales, redemption, distribution or optional charges or income taxes payable by any securityholder that would have reduced returns. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.
Mutual fund securities are not covered by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any other government deposit insurer. There can be no assurances that the fund will be able to maintain its net asset value per security at a constant amount or that the full amount of your investment in the fund will be returned to you.
Distributions are not guaranteed and the proportion of income and return of capital will fluctuate depending on fund returns. Unlike fixed-income securities, there is no obligation to distribute any fixed amount, and reductions in, or suspensions of, distributions may occur that would reduce yield. Distributions are not an indication of performance, rate of return, or yield. Mutual fund distributions are not guaranteed and are set and may change at the discretion of Franklin Templeton Investments Canada.
Series F is available to investors participating in programs that do not require Franklin Templeton to incur distribution costs in the form of trailing commissions to dealers. As a consequence, the management fee on Series F is lower than on Series A. The gross of fees version of Series F does not exist and as a result, investors cannot purchase Series F securities on a gross of fees basis. Performance would have been lower with fees taken into account.
Series O investors do not pay any of the management fees within the fund but instead pay a separate management and administration fee that they negotiate directly with Franklin Templeton Canada. To qualify to purchase or hold Series O units an investor must meet minimum investment requirements as set out in the fund's current prospectus. For more details on the management and administration fee, please read the prospectus. Performance is presented in Canadian dollars and is gross of fees (before management and custodial fees) of Series O units of the Fund. Taking into account such fees would result in lower rates of return.
Indexes are unmanaged, and one cannot invest directly in an index. They do not reflect any fees, expenses or sales charges.
Investors can obtain any fund document by contacting a financial advisor or downloading it from the list of fund documents above.
FundGrade A ® is used with permission from Fundata Canada Inc., all rights reserved. The annual FundGrade A ® Awards are presented by Fundata Canada Inc. to recognize the “best of the best” among Canadian investment funds. The FundGrade A ® calculation is supplemental to the monthly FundGrade ratings and is calculated at the end of each calendar year. The FundGrade rating system evaluates funds based on their risk-adjusted performance, measured by Sharpe Ratio, Sortino Ratio, and Information Ratio. The score for each ratio is calculated individually, covering all time periods from 2 to 10 years. The scores are then weighted equally in calculating a monthly FundGrade. The top 10% of funds earn an A Grade; the next 20% of funds earn a B Grade; the next 40% of funds earn a C Grade; the next 20% of funds receive a D Grade; and the lowest 10% of funds receive an E Grade. To be eligible, a fund must have received a FundGrade rating every month in the previous year. The FundGrade A ® uses a GPA-style calculation, where each monthly FundGrade from “A” to “E” receives a score from 4 to 0, respectively. A fund’s average score for the year determines its GPA. Any fund with a GPA of 3.5 or greater is awarded a FundGrade A ® Award. For more information, see www.FundGradeAwards.com. Although Fundata makes every effort to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Fundata.
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Footnotes
The Morningstar Rating™ for funds, or “star rating”, is calculated for managed products with at least a three-year history, and subject to change monthly. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product’s monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-, and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. The weights are: 100% three-year rating for 36-59 months of total return, 60% five-year rating/40% three-year rating for 60-119 months of total returns, and 50% 10-year rating/30% five-year rating/20% three-year rating for 120 or more months of total return. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent three-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods. Ratings do not take into account the effects of sales charges and loads. Morningstar Rating is for the specified share class(es) only; other classes may have different performance characteristics.
Franklin Templeton Investments Corp., the investment fund manager of the Franklin Bissett Core Plus Bond Fund (the “Fund”), has received exemptive relief to permit the ETF Series of the Fund to use the start date, past performance, information derived from the financial statements and other financial information of the Franklin Bissett Core Plus Bond Active ETF, which was merged into the Fund, in the Fund’s sales communications, reports to securityholders, simplified prospectus, ETF facts, annual and interim financial statements and annual and interim management reports of fund performance, as applicable.
The distribution yield is the indicated yield, which estimates the annual distribution yield based on its most recent distribution. It is calculated by multiplying the last distributions by the number of expected distributions per year divided by the fund's net asset value (NAV) at the end of the month.
Yield figures quoted should not be used as an indication of the income that has or will be received. Yield figures are based on the portfolio's underlying holdings and do not represent a payout of the portfolio.
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, is provided to indicate the average credit rating of the portfolio’s underlying bonds and generally ranges from AAA (highest) to D (lowest). For unrated bonds ratings may be assigned based on the ratings of the issuer 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 debt holdings 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 is provided for informational purposes only. Derivative positions are not reflected in the ACQ.
Average Duration - Also known as 'effective' or 'McCauley' duration it is a measure of the sensitivity of the price (the value of principal) of a fixed-income investment to a change in interest rates. Duration is expressed as a number of years. It's an indication of an issue's coupon relative to its maturity. Rising interest rates mean falling bond prices; declining interest rates mean rising bond prices. The bigger the duration number, the greater the interest-rate risk; (or reward for bond prices). The weighted average duration of a fund reflects the effective duration of the underlying issues, based on the size of each holding. This value differs with 'Modified Duration' which is modified for the market (dirty) price of an issue.
All data is subject to change.