Margaret Franklin, CFA, is both the President & CEO of Kinsale Private Wealth and Past Chair of the Board of Governors of the CFA Institute. The CFA Institute is the global association for investment professionals that administers the CFA program worldwide and advocates for high standards of practice within the global investment industry.

Based in Toronto, Margaret Franklin has almost 20 years of financial industry experience in investment management with both institutional and private clients. She worked with global institutions including Barclays Global Investors, State Street Global Advisors and Mercer before moving to the private client business. Franklin was a partner in a boutique private client firm for eight years before Kinsale Private Wealth. She is the past chair of the audit and risk committee of the CFA Institute Board of Governors, and has also headed its external relations, and volunteer involvement, and planning committees. She is a past president of the Toronto CFA Society and received the CFA designation in 1997.

The CFA Institute is the global association for the investment profession. It administers the CFA and CIPM curriculum and exam programs worldwide; publishes research; conducts professional development programs; and sets voluntary, ethics-based professional and performance-reporting standards for the investment industry. CFA Institute has nearly 100,000 members, who include the world's 85,000 CFA charterholders, in 134 countries and territories, as well as 136 affiliated professional societies in 57 countries and territories.