Marc Franklin

managing director, senior portfolio manager for asset allocation, Manulife Investment Management

Marc Franklin is a managing director, senior portfolio manager for asset allocation, within the Multi-Asset Solutions Team (MAST) at Manulife Investment Management (MIM). MAST is tasked with the delivery of cross-asset class investment solutions that include pension and retirement solutions, risk management and outcome-oriented solutions, and multi-manager
portfolios including both public and private assets. Solutions may be absolute return, peer- or benchmark-relative and are delivered in many formats including mutual fund (including fund-of-fund), pooled, segregated and customized.

Marc has 18 years of investment industry experience, most recently as head of flexible multi asset for NN Investment Partners in the Netherlands. In this role, his team was responsible for overseeing a range of flexible absolute return, total return, and benchmark relative global multi asset funds and mandates across securities based and fund-of-funds strategies.
Prior to that, he was at Conning Asia Pacific as the senior portfolio manager of the firm’s global multi asset capability in Hong Kong. He has also worked for JPMorgan Asset Management, Henderson Global Investors and Nevsky Capital LLP.

Marc holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in politics, philosophy and economics (P.P.E.) from Trinity College, Oxford University.