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A chase for high yields landed Franklin Templeton in a lockdown

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MUMBAI : Franklin Templeton India’s decision to shut down six debt schemes can be traced to its recent predilection for taking credit risks and chasing yields, particularly in schemes where the fund was ideally not supposed to take credit risks.

The worsening economic situation has further soured the credit risk in the fund's books, leading to huge redemption pressure, forcing the fund to shut down the debt schemes.

The six Franklin funds have combined asset under management (AUM) of ₹25,856 crore as on date. The total AUM of Franklin Templeton is ₹1.04 trillion as of March 2020.

As per the data analysed by Mint, these schemes have 64.7% of their holdings in paper rated below AA. For instance, Franklin India Low Duration Fund has 64.7% of

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