Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN) december 5, 2024 Please complete the form below to contact Kaplan Fox regarding the Franklin Resources (BEN) Investigation: Join a Case First Name * Last Name * Email Address * Phone Number * Ticker Symbol Or Company Name * Please Insert Your Estimation Of Losses In USD * Are you a current or former employee of the company mentioned having traded above? * Yes No Captcha Submit If you are human, leave this field blank. Join Investigation Principle Contacts Pamela MayerPMayer@kaplanfox.comLaurence D. KingLKing@kaplanfox.com Ken Leech, Co-Chief Investment Officer Has Been Charged For Securities Fraud By The Sec And Justice Department – Contact Kaplan Fox LLP Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP is investigating securities violations against Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN) (“Franklin” or the “Company”) (NYSE: BEN), also known as Franklin Templeton. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS INVESTIGATION If you are a Franklin investor and have suffered losses, you may click here to contact us. You may also contact Kaplan Fox by emailing pmayer@kaplanfox.com or by calling (646) 315-9003. 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 Management Co. (“Western Asset”), a subsidiary of Franklin, 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.” Then on September 5, 2024, Barron’s reported it had “learned from a person familiar with the matter that the SEC’s investigation focuses on three strategies Leech managed. Each strategy has a mutual fund version with different share classes — Western Asset Core Plus Bond, Western Asset Core Bond, and Western Asset Macro Opportunities — as well as multiple separate accounts overseen by Leech, totaling 38 accounts in all.” Further, Barron’s reported that “[a]ccording to Morningstar, in the 12 months ended on July 31 before Leech’s departure, the now $17 billion Western Asset Core Plus Bond and the now $12 billion Western Asset Core Bond funds experienced $6.3 billion and $2.9 billion in shareholder outflows, respectively” and that “[t]he $165 million Western Asset Macro Opportunities fund was more than cut in half, losing $168 million.” Then on November 4, 2024, Franklin announced its preliminary fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024 results, reporting that “the Company impaired its indefinite-lived intangible assets related to certain mutual fund contracts managed by Western Asset Management by $389.2 million.” During the earnings call held the same day, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Matthew Nicholls, said the impairment charge was “primarily due to the decreased [Assets Under Management] resulting from net client outflows and lower discounted future cash flows generated from these management contracts.” Additionally, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Jennifer Johnson, revealed that the Commodity Future Trade Commission, or “CFTC”, is conducting an investigation in parallel with the previously disclosed DOJ and SEC investigations. 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