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As of June 15, 2023, all performing assets in Income Opportunities, Low Duration, Dynamic Accrual, Ultra Short Bond and Credit Risk Fund stand extinguished and 100% of the AUM of the schemes stand distributed. There is only one issuer remaining to be liquidated in the Short Duration Fund.

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Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund is a Equity - Small Cap fund was launched on 13 Jan 06. It is a fund with Moderately High risk and has given a CAGR/Annualized return of 15.2% since its launch. Ranked 11 in Small Cap category. Return for 2022 was 3.6% , 2021 was 56.4% and 2020 was 18.7% .

PTI. SBI Funds Management Ltd on Tuesday said it has completed the liquidation of assets in the six shuttered debt schemes of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund and distributed Rs 27,508 crore to the latter's unitholders.

Investors were left shaken when Franklin Templeton took the unprecedented decision to wind up six of its debt funds on 23 April 2020. A crippling market dislocation, fed by the onset of the Covid pandemic, had sucked out liquidity from the funds' underlying holdings.

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It was only when Franklin Templeton India mutual fund suddenly wound up six of its open-ended debt funds – with assets worth Rs 25,215 crore as of April 23, 2020 – that investors realised that debt funds could be as risky as equity funds, or even riskier.

“Franklin's equity funds have steadily lost to peers for multiple reasons. Some of them lost out on being too value-conscious and missing out on substantial rallies in a narrow universe of stocks while few others lost out on top concentrated calls not working for a good while,” the note said.

The units in all six funds now stand extinguished, with orderly liquidation of all performing assets. Having got their money back, investors can finally breathe easy.

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