At Franklin Templeton were advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic firm spans asset management wealth management and fintech offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Talented teams working around the globe bring expertise thats both broad and unique. And our welcoming respectful and inclusive culture provides opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.

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2026 Undergraduate Summer Intern Job Posting

Department Title: Undergrad Intern Portfolio Management Analyst: Corporate Fixed Income

Position Summary:

Our department is responsible for managing Fixed Income Corporate Bond portfolios. Portfolio Managers work very closely with our fundamental corporate research team to manage our active corporate bond strategies. This includes deciding which corporate sectors we want to invest in using best ideas from our research team recommendations to build robust investment portfolios that outperform our peer groups.

This is an amazing opportunity for an intern as they will be working very closely with senior portfolio managers learning how to manage our investment portfolios. You will be given the opportunity to be trained as a junior corporate bond portfolio manager. This is very rare to get this kind of exposure directly working with senior portfolio managers. Strong potential for long term employment as a portfolio manager based on intern performance.

Team Culture:

The team culture is very strong. We work in an environment that encourages everyone to generate ideas teach and learn from each other and drive positive investment performance into our corporate bond strategies. We treat each other like family and believe a strong team culture builds strong long term investment performance.

An intern in this department can expect to learn:

• Learn about the fundamentals of corporate bond sectors how to evaluate relative value between investment sectors like Financials Industrials Non-Cyclicals Healthcare Technology Commodities etc.
• Work very closely with sector specialist bottom-up fundamental research analysts on how and why they select specific companies for best ideas to include in our portfolios.
• Learn about how we construct and risk manage our portfolios to outperform our benchmarks for better risk adjusted returns.
• Help us build quantitative tools to generate ideas and manage risk.

Key Responsibilities Can Include:

• Helping us build better trading models to track the performance of our biggest overweight and underweight positions at the sector and security level.
• Help us build models that give our traders and analysts better real-time information about investment opportunities in the market.
• Help build tools that analyze trading flows in markets dealer pricing axes/runs and help distinguish when certain companies and sub sectors have stronger/weaker investment flows/momentum.

Ideal Qualifications:

• Quantitative Finance Background a must.
• Ability to build quantitative models that include data analysis time series analysis coding optimization etc.
• Desire to blend quantitative skills with fundamental research.

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Please be sure to attach your resume when submitting your application. Applications submitted without a resume will not be considered.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive we may not be able to respond to each applicant individually. If youre interested in more than one internship we encourage you to apply to all positions that align with your interests.

This is a full-time internship where students will work approximately 37.5 (dependent on state/location) hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $36 - $46 (dependent on location and function) USD per hour. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location job-related knowledge skills and experience. At Franklin Templeton we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation and benefits are taken into consideration in determining compensation.

At Franklin Templeton were advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic firm spans asset management wealth management and fintech offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise thats both broad and unique. From our welcoming inclusive and flexible culture to our global and diverse business we provide opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.

Experience our welcoming culture and reach your professional and personal potential!