Last week, SBI Mutual Fund, India’s largest fund house by assets under management (AUM), completed an exercise which typified what the Indian financial sector values it for. SBI Funds Management—the asset management company (AMC) of SBI Mutual Fund—completed the mandate of liquidation of securities of six wound-up Franklin Templeton mutual fund schemes, directed by the Supreme Court in 2021.
In 2020, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund had cited unprecedented redemption pressures, leading up to a freeze by the regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), after finding serious lapses and a breach of its mutual fund guidelines.