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SUMMARY PROSPECTUS
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Franklin Liberty U.S. Core Bond ETF
Franklin Templeton ETF Trust
September 9, 2019
as amended May 26, 2020
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Ticker:
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Exchange:
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FLCB
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NYSE Arca, Inc.
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Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks.
You can find the Funds prospectus, statement of additional information and other information about the Fund online at
www.franklintempleton.com. You can also get this information at no cost by calling (800) DIAL BEN®/342-5236 or by sending an e-mail request to prospectus@franklintempleton.com. The Fund's prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated September 9, 2019, as may be supplemented, are all incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.
Internet Delivery of Fund Reports Unless You Request Paper Copies: Effective January 1, 2021, as permitted by the SEC, paper copies of the Funds shareholder reports will no longer be
sent by mail, unless you specifically request them from your financial intermediary. Instead, the reports will be made available
on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the
report.
If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need
not take any action. If you have not signed up for electronic delivery, we would encourage you to join fellow shareholders
who have. You may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications electronically by contacting your financial
intermediary.
You may elect to continue to receive paper copies of all your future shareholder reports free of charge by contacting your
financial intermediary to let the financial intermediary know of your request. Your election to receive reports in paper will
apply to all funds held with your financial intermediary.
Franklin Liberty U.S. Core Bond ETF
Investment Goal
Total return.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
The following table describes the fees and expenses that you will incur if you own shares of the Fund. You may also incur
usual and customary brokerage commissions when buying or selling shares of the Fund, which are not reflected in the Example
that follows.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
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Liberty U.S. Core Bond ETF1
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Management fees
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0.15%
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Distribution and service (12b-1) fees
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None
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Other expenses2
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0.04%
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Total annual Fund operating expenses
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0.19%
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Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement3
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-0.04%
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Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement3
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0.15%
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1. The Fund will begin offering shares on September 17, 2019. Total annual operating expenses are annualized.
2. Other expenses are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
3. The investment manager has contractually agreed to waive or assume certain expenses so that total annual Fund operating expenses
(including acquired fund fees and expenses, but excluding certain non-routine expenses) for the Fund do not exceed 0.15% until
July 31, 2021. Contractual fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement agreements may not be changed or terminated during the
time period set forth above.
Example
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your shares at
the end of the period. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating
expenses remain the same. The Example reflects adjustments made to the Funds operating expenses due to the fee waivers
and/or expense reimbursements by management for the 1 Year numbers only. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower,
based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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1 Year
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3 Years
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Franklin Liberty U.S. Core Bond ETF
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$ 15
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$ 57
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Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A
higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held
in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the
Fund's performance.
Principal Investment Strategies
Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in bonds of U.S. issuers, including government,
corporate debt, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities. Bonds include debt obligations of any maturity, such as bonds,
notes, bills and debentures. U.S. issuers include entities:
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whose securities are listed or traded principally on a recognized stock exchange or over-the-counter market in the U.S.;
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that derive 50% or more of their total revenue from either goods or services produced or sales made in the U.S.;
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that have 50% or more of their assets in the U.S.; or
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that are organized under the laws of, or with principal offices in, the U.S.
Bonds of U.S. issuers also include: (i) securities included in the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index;
and (ii) bonds denominated in U.S. dollars issued by foreign banks and corporations, and registered with the SEC for sale
in the U.S., such as Yankee bonds. The Fund invests predominantly in investment grade debt securities and, under normal market
conditions, is generally expected to have sector, credit and duration exposures comparable to the Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Bond Index, the Funds benchmark index. However, the investment manager makes investment decisions based upon
its own fundamental analysis, which affects the Funds sector, credit and duration exposures so that they may vary from
the benchmark index. Investment grade debt securities are securities that are rated at the time of purchase in the top four
ratings categories by one or more independent rating organizations such as S&P® Global Ratings (S&P®) (rated BBB- or better) or Moodys Investors Service (Moodys) (rated Baa3 or higher) or, if unrated, are determined
to be of comparable quality by the Funds investment manager.
An asset-backed security is a security backed by loans, leases, and other receivables. A mortgage-backed security is an interest
in a pool of mortgage loans made by and packaged or pooled together by banks, mortgage lenders, various governmental
agencies and other financial institutions for sale to investors to finance purchases of homes, commercial buildings and other
real estate. The Funds investments in mortgage-backed securities include securities that are issued or guaranteed by
the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities, which include mortgage pass-through securities representing interests
in pools of mortgage loans issued or guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae),
the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). The
Fund also invests in other types of mortgage securities that may be issued or guaranteed by private issuers including commercial
mortgage-backed securities (CMBS).
The Fund may purchase or sell mortgage-backed securities on a delayed delivery or forward commitment basis through the to-be-announced
(TBA) market. With TBA transactions, the particular securities to be delivered must meet specified terms and conditions.
For purposes of pursuing its investment goal, the Fund may enter into various interest rate and credit-related derivatives,
principally U.S. Treasury futures, interest rate swaps and credit default swaps. The use of these derivative transactions
may allow the Fund to obtain net long or short exposures to select interest rates, durations or credit risks. These derivatives
may be used to enhance Fund returns, increase liquidity, gain exposure to certain instruments or markets in a more efficient
or less expensive way and/or hedge risks associated with its other portfolio investments. Derivatives that provide exposure
to bonds may be used to satisfy the Funds 80% policy.
In choosing investments for the Fund, the investment manager selects securities in various market sectors based on its assessment
of changing economic, market, industry and issuer conditions. The investment manager uses a top-down analysis
of macroeconomic trends, combined with a bottom-up fundamental analysis of market sectors, industries and issuers,
to try to take advantage of varying sector reactions to economic events. The investment manager may consider selling a security
when it believes the security has become fully valued due to either its price appreciation or changes in the issuers
fundamentals, or when the investment manager believes another security is a more attractive investment opportunity.
The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified
index.
Principal Risks
You could lose money by investing in the Fund. ETF shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by,
any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency
of the U.S. government. The Fund is subject to the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely affect the Funds
net asset value (NAV), trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment goal. Unlike many ETFs, the Fund
is not an index-based ETF.
Market The market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably.
The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results of supply and demand
unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices
tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise.
Interest Rate When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true: debt security prices rise
when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number of factors, including government policy, monetary
policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk, and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer
maturities or durations are more sensitive to interest rate changes.
Credit An issuer of debt securities may fail to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes
in an issuer's financial strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. Mortgage-backed
securities that are not issued by U.S. government agencies may have a greater risk of default because neither the U.S. government
nor an agency or instrumentality have guaranteed or provided credit support to them. The credit quality of most asset-backed
securities depends primarily on the credit quality of the underlying assets and the amount of credit support (if any) provided
to the securities. While securities issued by Ginnie Mae are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, not
all securities of the various U.S. government agencies are, including those of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Also, guarantees
of principal and interest payments do not apply to market prices, yields or the Funds share price. While the U.S. government
has, in the past, provided financial support to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the U.S. government is not obligated by law to
do so and no assurance can be given that the U.S. government will do so in the future.
Mortgage Securities and Asset-Backed Securities Mortgage securities differ from conventional debt securities because principal is paid back periodically over the life of
the security rather than at maturity. The Fund may receive unscheduled payments of principal due to voluntary prepayments,
refinancings or foreclosures on the underlying mortgage loans. Because of prepayments, mortgage securities may be less effective
than some other types of debt securities as a means of "locking in" long-term interest rates and may have less potential for
capital appreciation during periods of falling interest rates. A reduction in the anticipated rate of principal prepayments,
especially during periods of rising interest rates, may increase or extend the effective maturity of mortgage securities,
making them more sensitive to interest rate changes, subject to greater price volatility, and more susceptible than some other
debt securities to a decline in market value when interest rates rise.
Issuers of asset-backed securities may have limited ability to enforce the security interest in the underlying assets, and
credit enhancements provided to support the securities, if any, may be inadequate to protect investors in the event of default.
Like mortgage securities, asset-backed securities are subject to prepayment and extension risks.
Derivative Instruments The performance of derivative instruments depends largely on the performance of an underlying currency, security, interest
rate or index, and such derivatives often have risks similar to the underlying instrument, in addition to other risks. Derivatives
involve costs and can create economic leverage in the Funds portfolio which may result in significant volatility and
cause the Fund to participate in losses (as well as gains) in an amount that significantly exceeds the Funds initial
investment. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Other
risks include illiquidity, mispricing or improper valuation of the derivative, and imperfect correlation between the value
of the derivative and the underlying instrument so that the Fund may not realize the intended benefits. Their successful use
will usually depend on the investment managers ability to accurately forecast movements in the market relating to the
underlying instrument. Should a market or markets, or prices of particular classes of investments move in an unexpected manner,
especially in unusual or extreme market conditions, the Fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction,
and it may realize losses, which could be significant. If the investment manager is not successful in using such derivative
instruments, the Funds performance may be worse than if the investment manager did not use such derivatives at all.
When a derivative is used for hedging, the change in value of the derivative may also not correlate specifically with the
currency, security, interest rate, index or other risk being hedged. Derivatives also may present the risk that the other
party to the transaction will fail to perform. There is also the risk, especially under extreme market conditions, that a
derivative, which usually would operate as a hedge, provides no hedging benefits at all.
Income Because the Fund can only distribute what it earns, the Fund's distributions to shareholders may decline when prevailing interest
rates fall or when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities it holds.
When-Issued and Delayed Delivery Transactions Mortgage-backed securities may be issued on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis, where payment and delivery take place
at a future date. Because the market price of the security may fluctuate during the time before payment and delivery, the
Fund assumes the risk that the value of the security at delivery may be more or less than the purchase price.
Management The Fund will be subject to management risk because it will be an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment
manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
Market Trading The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for Fund shares, losses from
trading in secondary markets, periods of high volatility and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any
of these factors, among others, may lead to the Funds shares trading at a premium or discount to NAV. Thus, you may
pay more (or less) than NAV when you buy shares of the Fund in the secondary market, and you may receive less (or more) than
NAV when you sell those shares in the secondary market. The investment manager cannot predict whether shares will trade above
(premium), below (discount) or at NAV.
Authorized Participant Concentration Only an authorized participant (Authorized Participant) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the
Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that act as Authorized Participants. To the extent that these institutions
exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other Authorized
Participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), Fund shares may trade at a discount
to NAV and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting. This risk may be more pronounced in volatile markets, potentially
where there are significant redemptions in ETFs generally.
Cash Transactions Unlike certain ETFs, the Fund expects to generally effect its creations and redemptions entirely for cash, rather than for
in-kind securities. Therefore, it may be required to sell portfolio securities and subsequently recognize gains on such sales
that the Fund might not have recognized if it were to distribute portfolio securities in-kind. As such, investments in Fund
shares may be less tax-efficient than an investment in an ETF that distributes portfolio securities entirely in-kind.
Small Fund When the Fund's size is small, the Fund may experience low trading volume and wide bid/ask spreads. In addition, the Fund
may face the risk of being delisted if the Fund does not meet certain conditions of the listing exchange.
Large Shareholder Certain shareholders, including other funds or accounts advised by the investment manager or an affiliate of the investment
manager, may from time to time own a substantial amount of the Fund's shares. In addition, a third party investor, the investment
manager or an affiliate of the investment manager, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity may invest
in the Fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to facilitate commencement of the Fund or to facilitate
the Fund's achieving a specified size or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its
investment, that the size of the Fund would be maintained at such levels or that the Fund would continue to meet applicable
listing requirements. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on the Fund. In addition,
transactions by large shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on the listing exchange and may,
therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
Performance
Because the Fund is new, it has no performance history. Once the Fund has commenced operations, you can obtain updated performance
information at franklintempleton.com or by calling (800) DIAL BEN/342-5236. The Fund's past performance (before and after
taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Investment Manager
Franklin Advisers, Inc. (Advisers)
Portfolio Managers
David Yuen, CFA, FRM Portfolio Manager of Advisers and portfolio manager of the Fund since inception (2019).
Patrick Klein, Ph.D. Portfolio Manager of Advisers and portfolio manager of the Fund since inception (2019).
Tina Chou Portfolio Manager of Advisers and portfolio manager of the Fund since inception (2019).
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund is an ETF. Fund shares may only be purchased and sold on a national securities exchange through a broker-dealer.
The price of Fund shares is based on market price, and because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares may
trade at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). The Fund issues or redeems shares that have been
aggregated into blocks of 50,000 shares or multiples thereof (Creation Units) to Authorized Participants who have entered
into agreements with the Funds distributor, Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. The Fund will generally issue or redeem
Creation Units in return for a basket of cash and/or securities that the Fund specifies each day.
Taxes
The Funds distributions are generally taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both,
unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in
which case your distributions would generally be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and
Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the investment
manager or other related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are
designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing,
education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest
by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment.
Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediarys website for more information.
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Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc.
One Franklin Parkway
San Mateo, CA 94403-1906
franklintempleton.com
Franklin Liberty U.S. Core Bond ETF
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Investment Company Act file #811-23124
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© 2019 Franklin Templeton. All rights reserved.
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FLCB PSUM 05/20
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