Franklin FTSE South Africa ETF
Data updated: 2023-11-17
C000204489 — Franklin FTSE South Africa ETF. Emerging Markets Blend / Core Equity · $2.00M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000204489 Fund Overview
Franklin FTSE South Africa ETF is a US ETF managed by Franklin Templeton ETF Trust, categorised as Emerging Markets Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: Franklin Templeton ETF Trust
- Category: Emerging Markets Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $2.00M
- 1-year return: 5.9%
- SEC CIK: 0001655589
- SEC series ID: S000063033
- Share class ID: C000204489
C000204489 Investment Objective and Strategy
Franklin FTSE South Africa ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Franklin Templeton ETF Trust.
Investment objective
To seek to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the FTSE/JSE South Africa RIC Capped Index (the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index).
Principal investment strategy
"Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index and in depositary receipts representing such securities. The FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index maintained and calculated by FTSE Russell with a capping methodology applied quarterly to issuer weights so that no single issuer of a component exceeds 25% of the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index weight, and all issuers with weights above 5% do not cumulatively exceed 50% of the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Indexs weight. The FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index is based on the FTSE South Africa Index and is designed to measure the performance of South African large- and mid-capitalization stocks.
FTSE Russell determines eligible securities for the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index based on measures such as the companys place of incorporation, listing country, investor protection regulations present in the country of incorporation, tax domicile, location of headquarters/factors of production and currency of denomination. As of May 31, 2023, the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index was comprised of 50 securities with capitalizations ranging from $263 million to $32.25 billion. The Fund, using a passive or indexing investment approach, seeks investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index. The Fund may use either a replication strategy or representative sampling strategy. Under a replication strategy, the Fund will replicate the component securities of the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index as closely as possible (i.e., invest in all of the component securities in their respective weightings in the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index).
However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to replicate the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index. In these circumstances, the Fund may use a representative sampling strategy whereby the Fund would invest in what it believes to be a representative sample of the component securities of the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index, but may not track the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index. Under the representative sampling technique, the investment manager will select securities that collectively have an investment profile similar to that of the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index, including securities that resemble those included in the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index in terms of risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics, such as market capitalization and industry weightings.
The Fund may invest in equity futures (including equity index futures) and equity total return swaps to provide additional opportunities to add value and better track the performance of the Funds Underlying Index, such as to equitize cash and accrued income, simulate investments in the Underlying Index, facilitate trading or minimize transaction costs. The Fund may enter into foreign currency forward contracts and/or currency futures contracts to provide the Fund with additional opportunities to add value and better track the performance of the Funds Underlying Index, such as by facilitating local securities settlements or protecting against currency exposure in connection with distributions to Fund shareholders. The Fund is a ""non-diversified"" fund, which means it generally invests a greater proportion of its assets in the securities of one or more issuers and invests overall in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.
The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its net assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the FTSE /JSE South Africa Capped Index is concentrated. As of May 31, 2023, the FTSE/JSE South Africa Capped Index was concentrated in the financials and materials sectors."
C000204489 Performance
Total returns for C000204489 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 5.9% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 5.1% |
C000204489 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000204489, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 33.8%
C000204489 Costs and Fees
C000204489 costs about $19 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.19%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.19%
- Portfolio turnover: 8%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.40 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000204489 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2023-09, Franklin FTSE South Africa ETF had net outflows of $1.08M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2023-09 | $0 |
| 2023-08 | $0 |
| 2023-07 | $0 |
| 2023-06 | $0 |
| 2023-05 | $0 |
| 2023-04 | $0 |
C000204489 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Franklin FTSE South Africa ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000204489 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Franklin FTSE South Africa ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-07-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-07-26
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2022-09-08
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-11-17
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-08-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-05-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-06-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-06-09
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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.