JNL/Franklin Templeton Founding Strategy Fund

Data updated: 2022-05-25

C000192202 — JNL/Franklin Templeton Founding Strategy Fund. Money Market · $1.09B AUM · 0.73% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

C000192202 Fund Overview

JNL/Franklin Templeton Founding Strategy Fund is a US mutual fund managed by JNL Series Trust, categorised as Money Market. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

Type: US mutual fund
Manager: JNL Series Trust
Category: Money Market
Assets under management: $1.09B
1-year return: 4.8%
SEC CIK: 0000933691
SEC series ID: S000014513
Share class ID: C000192202

C000192202 Investment Objective and Strategy

JNL/Franklin Templeton Founding Strategy Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by JNL Series Trust.

Investment objective

The investment objective of the Fund is capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by making allocations (approximately 33 1/3%) of its assets and cash flows among the following three Funds (Underlying Funds): JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund; JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund; and JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund seeks long-term capital growth by investing, under normal market conditions, primarily in the equity securities of companies located anywhere in the world, including emerging markets. Under normal market conditions, the JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund invests significantly (ordinarily at least 40% unless market conditions are not deemed favorable by Templeton Global Advisors Limited (in this paragraph, Sub-Adviser), in which case the JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund would invest at least 30%) in non-U.S.

companies. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund will allocate its assets among various regions and countries, including the United States (but in no less than three different countries). Although the JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund seeks investments across a number of countries and sectors, from time to time, based on economic conditions, the JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund may have significant positions in particular regions, such as Europe, or sectors. Depending upon current market conditions, the JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in debt securities of companies and governments located anywhere in the world. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Global Fund also may invest in depositary receipts and may use derivative strategies. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund seeks to maximize income while maintaining prospects for capital appreciation by investing, under normal market conditions, in a diversified portfolio of debt and equity securities.

The JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund may shift its investments from one asset class to another based on the analysis of Franklin Advisers, Inc. (in this paragraph, Sub-Adviser) as to the best opportunities for the JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Funds portfolio in a given market. The equity securities in which the JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund invests consist primarily of common stock. Debt securities include all varieties of fixed, floating and variable rate instruments, including secured and unsecured bonds, bonds convertible into common stock, senior floating rate and term loans, mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities, debentures, and shorter term instruments. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund seeks income by selecting investments such as corporate, foreign and U.S.

Treasury bonds, as well as stocks with dividend yields the Sub-Adviser believes are attractive. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund may invest up to 100% of its total assets in debt securities that are rated below investment grade (also known as junk bonds), including a portion in defaulted securities. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund maintains the flexibility to invest in securities of companies from a variety of sectors, but from time to time, based on economic conditions, the Fund may have significant investments in particular sectors. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund may also invest up to 25% of its assets in foreign securities, either directly or through depositary receipts. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Income Fund may invest up to 15% of its net assets in equity-linked notes, which are hybrid derivative-type instruments that are specially designed to combine the characteristics of one or more reference securities (usually a single stock, a stock index or a basket of stocks (underlying securities)) and a related equity derivative, such as a put or call option, in a single note form.

The JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund seeks capital appreciation, which may occasionally be short-term (which is capital appreciation return on an investment in less than 12 months), and secondarily, income. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund primarily invests in equity securities (including securities convertible into, or that Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC (in this paragraph, Sub-Adviser) expects to be exchanged for, common or preferred stock) of U.S. and foreign companies that the Sub-Adviser believes are available at market prices less than their value based on certain recognized or objective criteria (intrinsic value). To a lesser extent, the JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund also invests in merger arbitrage and the debt and equity of distressed companies. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund may invest a significant portion (up to 35%) of its assets in foreign securities, which may include sovereign debt and participations in foreign government debt.

The JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund is not limited to pre-set maximums or minimums governing the size of the companies in which it may invest. However, the JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund generally invests the equity portion of its portfolio primarily to predominantly in companies with market capitalizations greater than $5 billion, with a portion or significant amount in smaller companies, which are generally companies with market capitalizations less than $5 billion. The JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund regularly attempts to hedge (protect) against currency risks, largely using currency forward contracts and currency futures contracts (including currency index futures contracts) when, in the Sub-Advisers opinion, it would be advantageous to the JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund to do so.

The JNL/Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares Fund may also, from time to time, attempt to hedge against market risk using a variety of derivatives. These Underlying Funds invest primarily in U.S. and foreign equity securities, and, to a lesser extent, fixed-income and money market securities. The investment policies of the Underlying Funds are further described elsewhere in this Prospectus.

C000192202 Performance

Total returns for C000192202 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

Period	Total return
1 year	4.8%
3 years (annualised)	9.8%

C000192202 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000192202, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

1-year volatility (annualised): 9.7%

C000192202 Costs and Fees

C000192202 costs about $73 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

Net expense ratio: 0.73%
Gross expense ratio: 0.73%
Portfolio turnover: 81%
Brokerage commissions: 3.19 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000192202 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2022-03, JNL/Franklin Templeton Founding Strategy Fund had net outflows of $132.85M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

Month	Net flow
2022-03	−$3.81M
2022-02	−$8.82M
2022-01	−$13.52M
2021-12	−$9.94M
2021-11	−$11.46M
2021-10	−$11.75M

C000192202 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in JNL/Franklin Templeton Founding Strategy Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000192202 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official JNL/Franklin Templeton Founding Strategy Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.