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TORONTO, Dec. 29, 2022 /CNW/ - Franklin Templeton Canada today announced the final December 2022 cash distributions and the annual reinvested distributions for its ETFs available to Canadian investors. This is an update to the estimated December 2022 cash distributions and annual reinvested distributions as well as a correction to the payout date previously announced on December 20, 2022.

As detailed in the table below, unitholders of record on December 30, 2022, will receive a per-unit cash distribution payable in Canadian dollars on January 9, 2023 – this date was previously announced on December 20, 2022, as January 4, 2023.

The annual reinvested distributions, as applicable, will not be paid in cash but reinvested in additional units and reported as taxable distributions, with a corresponding increase in each unitholder's adjusted cost base of their units of the respective ETF. The additional ETF units will be immediately consolidated so that the number of units held by the unitholder, the outstanding units and the net asset value of the ETFs will not change as a result of the annual reinvested distribution. The annual reinvested distributions, as applicable, are expected to be capital gains in nature for each of the ETFs.

As detailed in the table below, unitholders of record on December 30, 2022, will receive a per-unit reinvested distribution payable in Canadian dollars on January 9, 2023 – this date was previously announced on December 20, 2022, as January 4, 2023.

The taxable amounts of cash and reinvested distributions for 2022, including the tax characteristics of the distributions, will be reported to brokers through CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. in early 2023.

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Commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with investments in ETFs. Investors should carefully consider an ETF's investment objectives and strategies, risks, fees and expenses before investing. The prospectus and ETF facts contain this and other information. Please read the prospectus and ETF facts carefully before investing. ETFs trade like stocks, fluctuate in market value and may trade at prices above or below the ETF's net asset value. Brokerage commissions and ETF expenses will reduce returns. ETFs are not guaranteed, their values change frequently, and past performance may not be repeated.

Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual distributions to differ materially from those contemplated by those statements.

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