Upon request, any holder of the Company's securities may obtain a paper copy of the Company's annual report on Form 10-K, including complete audited financial statements and any schedules included in the annual report on Form 10-K, without charge, by completing and submitting the on-line request form or by writing to the Company's Secretary, Maria Gray, at the Company's principal executive offices, Franklin Resources, Inc., One Franklin Parkway, San Mateo, CA 94403-1906. Upon written request to the Company's Secretary, at the address of the Company's principal executive offices, the exhibits set forth on the exhibit index of the Company's annual report on Form 10-K may be made available at reasonable charge. The charge will be limited to the Company's reasonable expenses in furnishing such exhibits.