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SBI and Amundi price a $1.22B IPO-via-OFS in India’s largest asset manager
The entirely secondary offering — a roughly 10% stake sold by joint owners SBI and Amundi, with no primary proceeds to the company — priced at an implied valuation above $12B for the ₹12.5-trillion-AUM fund house, drawing anchor demand from ADIA and GIC ahead of its July 21 listing.
A 100%-secondary IPO — where the company itself raises zero primary proceeds — is a clean structure for existing owners like SBI and Amundi to realize value from a mature, profitable asset without diluting anyone or raising capital the business doesn't need.
Anchor demand from ADIA and GIC ahead of the listing signals how India's largest, most liquid asset-management franchises are increasingly viewed as index-relevant holdings by the biggest global sovereign pools of capital, not just domestic institutional bets.
Source: Bloomberg ↗