Putnam's Assets Hit Low Point

Putnam Investments' mutual fund assets have fallen below $100 billion, the lowest they have been in more that ten years, according to The Financial Times.

Boston-based Putnam had $21 billion in outflows, which is the largest of any fund group in the U.S. for the past year. According to Financial Research Corp., investors took out another $4 billion in the first quarter of 2006.

It has been attributed to the firm's close involvement in scandal. In the past five years alone, investors have taken out a total of $100 billion. In March, its mutual fund assets dropped to $99.5 billion, down from $240 billion in 1999.

That's on top of the $190 million it paid to settle regulators' charges.

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