Franklin Municipal Enhanced Income SMA Fund Q3 2024 Commentary

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1 Franklin Municipal Enhanced Income SMA utilizes both individual securities and shares of a completion portfolio (no-fee mutual fund) managed by Franklin SMA’s affiliate, Franklin Advisers, Inc. These portfolios were created specifically for, and are made available exclusively through, Franklin Templeton Separately Managed Accounts. The fund’s prospectus is available from your Franklin SMA Specialist and includes information on fund investment objectives, strategies and risks. Prior to June 30, 2020, Franklin Municipal Enhanced Income SMA Composite was named Franklin Multi Strategy Municipal SMA Composite and was invested in a high yield, tax-free municipal pooled investment vehicle.

2 A composite is an aggregation of one or more portfolios into a single group that represents a particular investment objective or strategy. The composite return is the asset-weighted average of the performance results of all the fully discretionary portfolios in the composite. The composite return information provided herein includes the returns of Franklin Separately Managed Accounts, high-net- worth individual and institutional client portfolios and with respect to any periods prior to the inception of Franklin Separately Managed Accounts, reflects the performance of any such other portfolios.

3 Source for Index: FactSet. Indexes are unmanaged, and one cannot invest directly in an index. They do not reflect any fees, expenses or sales charges.

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Franklin Municipal Enhanced Income SMA consists of all fully discretionary accounts with a multi-strategy municipal investment objective and for which the brokerage (including trading expenses), administrative, custodial, and investment management fees are charged together as a percentage of the portfolios’ assets (“wrap fee”). Franklin Separately Managed Accounts directly manages the portion of the strategy that is invested in intermediate municipal fixed income securities (typically 60%) and invests the balance (typically 40%) of each portfolio in a pooled investment vehicle managed by Franklin Separately Managed Account’s affiliate, Franklin Advisers, Inc. (“FAI”), which invests in high yield tax-free municipal securities. All accounts in the composite have a wrap fee (also known as a bundled or “comprehensive” fee) for all time periods presented. The primary risks inherent in this strategy include interest rate risk and credit risk. Issuers of lower-rated or “high yield” debt securities are not as strong financially as those with higher credit ratings and the prices of high yield debt securities generally fluctuate more than those of higher credit quality. Between June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2012, the composite name was Franklin Multi Strategy Municipal SMA Wrap Fee Composite. Prior to June 30, 2012, the composite name was Franklin Portfolio Advisors Multi Strategy Municipal Composite-Wrap Fee.

The benchmark for this composite is the Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index, which is a sector market value capitalization weighted fixed income index comprised of general obligation, revenue, insured and pre-refunded/escrowed municipal bonds selected to be representative of the market.

All investments involve risks, including possible loss of principal. Fixed income securities involve interest rate, credit, inflation and reinvestment risks, and possible loss of principal. As interest rates rise, the value of fixed income securities falls. Low-rated, high-yield bonds are subject to greater price volatility, illiquidity and possibility of default. Investments in underlying funds are subject to the same risks as, and indirectly bear the fees and expenses of, the underlying funds. Liquidity risk exists when securities or other investments become more difficult to sell, or are unable to be sold, at the price at which they have been valued. Active management does not ensure gains or protect against market declines. Portfolios focused on a single state are subject to greater risk of adverse economic and regulatory changes than a geographically diversified portfolio.

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