
After years investing across frontier markets from Sweden, Muhammad Shamoon Tariq returned to a harder brief: make regulated saving ordinary in Pakistan. Mahaana’s digital accounts, Islamic funds and retirement platform are his attempt to replace paperwork and inertia with a habit.
Hartford Funds built a large investment business by deciding it did not need to do every job itself. Now Wellington Management plans to buy the platform it has helped power for four decades.
The mutual-fund house founded in 1947 now runs a federation of specialist managers, an expanding private-markets shelf and one of Wall Street's more serious blockchain experiments. Franklin Templeton's wager is that old-fashioned distribution and new financial rails belong under the same roof.