Templeton Global Bond Fund

The Fund promotes environmental and social characteristics in accordance with Article 8 of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (the “SFDR”).  

In its implementation of the Fund’s environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) considerations for sovereign issuers, the Investment Manager typically favours issuers with either higher ESG scores or those projected to have neutral to improving ESG scores over the medium term (the next two to three years), as captured by its proprietary ESG methodology. For corporate and supranational issuers, the Investment Manager utilizes ESG ratings provided by MSCI. In addition, the Fund refrains from investing in issuers deemed to be among the poorest performers under certain sustainability metrics.  

The Fund’s environmental or social characteristics are assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively, by means of sustainability indicators as well as of the Investment Manager’s proprietary ESG methodology and its research process further described in the Website disclosure’s dedicated sections. As part of its investment decision making process, the Fund’s ESG strategy also uses binding criteria for the selection of underlying assets and applies specific ESG exclusions. 

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