Overview
- Fund description
- Reasons to invest
Fund description
The fund seeks a high current income and preservation of capital by investing primarily in Canadian fixed-income securities including Canadian federal and provincial government bonds, corporate bonds, debentures and short-term notes. The fund may also invest in securities backed by mortgages or other financial assets, and dividend-paying shares of Canadian companies. The fund may invest in foreign fixed-income securities. The average weighted term-to-maturity of the fund’s investments is five years or less.
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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 volatility. As short-term bonds are generally less sensitive to interest rate movements than longer-term bonds, they can help minimize the impact of rising rates on a portfolio and reduce overall portfolio volatility.
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
Assets
Sector
Portfolio Holdings
- Holdings
- Top Ten Holdings
Holdings
Top Ten Holdings
Distribution
Pricing
Documents
Fund Literature
Factsheet - Franklin Canadian Short Term Bond Fund - ETF Series-CAD
Product Commentary - Franklin Canadian Short Term Bond Fund
Flyer - Franklin Canadian Short Term Bond Fund
Regulatory Documents
Annual Report - Money Market, Fixed Income & Balanced Funds
Franklin Templeton - Fixed Income and Balanced Funds
Franklin Templeton – Fixed Income and Balanced Funds
Simplified Prospectus dated May 15, 2025
Quarterly Product Disclosure
Semiannual Management Report of Fund Performance - Franklin Canadian Short Term Bond Fund
Annual Management Report of Fund Performance - Franklin Canadian Short Term Bond Fund, Annual Management Report of Fund Performance, Annual Management Report of Fund Performance
Point of Sale Fund Facts – Franklin Canadian Short Term 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.
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Footnotes
Franklin Templeton Investments Corp., the investment fund manager of the Franklin Bissett Short Duration 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 Short Duration 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.
Inclusive of trust and corporate class versions where applicable.
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.
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.
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.
All data is subject to change.