Tony Pearce

Franklin Templeton Australia’s business strategy is to be a key provider of institutional and platform asset management services. They manage Australian equity, international equity and fixed-income. The firm bases asset allocation and their broadly diversified investment processes on in-house research. The firm actively manages risk.

Acorn Capital is a fundamental-oriented manager which seeks to generate long-term outperformance through its distinctive research and investment capabilities and to identify attractive opportunities in less efficient markets. They target the management of small to emerging company portfolios for clients. The firm's investment philosophy is based on its belief that there are pricing inefficiencies amongst Emerging Companies due to a lack of readily available external research conducted on such entities. They believe that through a research driven investment process the inefficiencies that exist in Emerging Companies can be exploited to earn superior returns.