Western Asset Management, a unit of Franklin Resources, will pay $100 million to settle SEC charges tied to a $600 million cherry-picking scheme by former CIO Kenneth Leech. The firm did not admit wrongdoing. Leech faces criminal trial, while regulators cited failures in oversight and fair trade allocation practices.

Western Asset Management, a unit of Franklin Resources, will pay $100 million to settle SEC charges tied to a $600 million cherry-picking scheme by former CIO Kenneth Leech. The…

The SEC fined Western Asset Management Company $100M for failing to prevent its former co-CIO's cherry-picking scheme that ran from 2021 to 2023.

Western Asset Management, a Franklin Resources subsidiary, will pay $100M to the SEC over a cherry-picking scheme by its former co-CIO Ken Leech.