With Advisor-Focused Robo, Franklin Templeton Enters New Territory The asset manager is launching Tango, a white-label robo combining its IP with parts and components from multiple partners. Franklin Templeton is the latest asset manager to turn to financial planning and automated investing technology in a bid to grow its digital presence. The financial services company has partnered with Apex Clearing, owned by private equity and venture capital firm PEAK6, to launch a white-label “turnkey robo advisor,” called Tango, built for financial advisors interested in attracting more business from the mass affluent and “high-net-worth clients of the future.” It joins an already crowded field of more than a dozen white-label automated advice platforms, or so-called robo advisors, available to the independent advisor and independent broker/dealer sectors. Those offerings come from a mix of asset management firms, banks, custodians, robos and partnerships of the former: all secretive about the assets under management, growth or the lack thereof for their platforms.