Jennifer Johnson
President, CEO & Director at Franklin Resources
We've had cash management net inflows for four out of the five last quarters, with $2,700,000,000 in each of the last two quarters, increasing our cash management AUM to 72,000,000,000 This quarter, we continued to successfully execute our long term corporate priorities, which reflect key areas of long term growth. Fundraising and alternatives generated $6,200,000,000 for the quarter, of which private markets assets totaled 5,300,000,000.0. This brings alternative asset fundraising to 19,000,000,000 fiscal year to date, including 15,700,000,000.0 in private markets, placing us at approximately the middle of our annual guidance range with one more quarter to go. Fundraising was diversified across alternative specialist investment managers and reflected client demand in secondary private equity, alternative credit, and real estate from institutions as well as from the wealth channel. In June, we announced an agreement to acquire a majority interest in Apira Asset Management, a pan European private credit firm with approximately $5,700,000,000 in AUM.