Shawn Lyons, CFA

Shawn Lyons is a vice president and portfolio manager in the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group and head of the Money Market group. He manages the firm's taxable money funds and is also a manager of Franklin Managed Income Fund.

Mr. Lyons joined Franklin Templeton in 1996 as a management trainee, and has worked with the municipal bond department, as well as the mortgage and money market groups.

Mr. Lyons received a B.A. degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of San Francisco and the CFA Institute.