NEW YORK, NY - (NewMediaWire) - August 29, 2024 -  Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP is investigating potential securities violations against Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN) (“Franklin” or the “Company”) (NYSE: BEN), also known as Franklin Templeton.

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On August 21, 2024, Franklin disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) attaching a press release issued by Western Asset that the co-Chief Investment Officer of Western Asset, Ken Leech, “recently received a Wells Notice from the Staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is on a leave of absence to focus on this matter.”  Western Asset “is also cooperating with parallel government investigations.”  According to an August 21, 2024 Bloomberg article both the SEC and Department of Justice are investigating.

Following this news, the price of Franklin stock price fell $2.84 per share, over 12%, to close at $19.78 per share on August 21, 2024, the largest single day drop since October 2020.

On August 28, 2024, Bloomberg reported that “the [SEC] is investigating Leech’s trades over a three-year period” and that “Federal prosecutors are probing whether profitable trades were given to some clients over others.”

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