(Bloomberg) -- SBI Holdings Inc. has joined Nomura Holdings Inc. and other Japanese financial firms in releasing details of their mutual funds’ exposure to securities in the Adani Group companies, as fallout spreads from the Indian conglomerate’s scandal.
SBI’s asset management arm published the weightings of Adani-related stocks held by four of its publicly offered investment trusts in a statement dated Monday. Nissay Asset Management Corp., a subsidiary of Japan’s largest insurer by assets, did the same for 10 index funds in a separate release that day.
Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Co., a unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., has 28 funds containing bonds or stocks associated with Adani Group, according to an announcement Tuesday.
The moves underscore how US federal prosecutors’ indictment of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani over an alleged bribery plot last week has sent ripples across the globe. Kenya canceled $2.6 billion worth of airport and power transmission contracts the tycoon’s conglomerate had pitched for, while TotalEnergies SE said it won’t make any fresh investment in the group until the consequences of the US action become clear.
The exposures for SBI’s mutual funds range from 0.21% to 2.55%, while those for Nissay’s are from 0.02% to 0.24%. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset’s funds had exposures ranging from 0.004% 5.47%. Nomura Asset Management Co. and Daiwa Asset Management Co. disclosed theirs last week.
“We will continue to pay close attention to the funds’ composition, monetary policy, and market environment,” SBI said in its statement. “We would like to ask investors for your continued support of our funds.”
(Updates with Sumitomo Mitsui unit’s disclosure in third paragraph.)
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