Franklin Templeton Hires for Asia Real EstatePosted on July 28th, 2008 by James Copper
Wenning Jung has joined Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors in California to lead the team’s Asia business. She joins from the California Public Employee’s Retirement System (Calpers), the largest public pension fund in the United States, where she had served as an investment officer in its real-estate department. While at Calpers she had implemented a new investment strategy into Asia and managed a portfolio of seven international commingled and separate account funds. Hers is a new role at Franklin Templeton, designed to help the firm boost its investments into Asia-based real-estate managers. The firm manages $2.5 billion of real-estate investments as funds of funds. She could not say whether the firm is preparing to introduce new products or if it is enhancing the existing offering.
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