William Yun

Senior Advisor, Fiduciary Trust Company International

William Y. Yun, Senior Advisor, is responsible for driving and supporting Fiduciary Trust International’s growth in South Florida. A 30-year veteran of Fiduciary Trust International and its parent company, Franklin Templeton, Bill is based in Palm Beach, Florida. He first joined Fiduciary Trust International in 1992 as a portfolio manager and rose to executive vice president in charge of the firm’s global equity division. Bill served as president of Fiduciary Trust International from 2000 until 2005, during which he helped the firm rebuild following the 9/11 attacks. He has been a member of Fiduciary Trust International’s board of directors since 2000.  In 2002, Bill began his role as president of Franklin Templeton Institutional. He later served as president of Franklin Templeton Alternative Investments, which includes the company’s hedge funds, real assets, private equity, and commodity investment teams, from 2008 to 2017. He then served as head of portfolio management for multi-asset solutions, and assumed the role as head of advisory and wealth strategy at Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions in 2019. Prior to joining Fiduciary Trust International, Bill worked in asset management and investment banking at Blyth Eastman Paine Webber, First Boston, and CB Commercial Holdings. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, is a member of the CFA Society New York, a trustee of The China Medical Board and serves on the President’s Advisory Council of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York. He was previously a trustee of The Commonwealth Fund in New York. Bill received his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and graduated from Harvard University with a BA.