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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 66%;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:1.00em;text-indent:-1.00em;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"&gt;Templeton Growth VIP Fund&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; 
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;"&gt;Effective May&#160;1, 2027, the following is added to the Franklin Growth and Income VIP Fund&#x2019;s principal investment strategies in the Fund&#x2019;s Summary Prospectus and Prospectus: &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4%;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"&gt;Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in the equity securities of companies located anywhere in the world, including developing markets. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline"&gt;SCHEDULE A &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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