Turkey's Sovereign Wealth Fund Steps In to Buy Blue-Chip Stocks to Prop Up Market
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Turkey's sovereign wealth fund bought BIST 30 blue-chip stocks Thursday via a state-owned ETF, drawing a single-day net inflow of 4.05 billion lira (~$83 million) — the highest since April 2025 — as a fund-industry redemption crisis shook market confidence.
How did the sovereign fund step in?
According to Bloomberg, the wealth fund bought shares through ETFs managed by state-owned broker Ziraat Portfoy, targeting the BIST 30 index — a benchmark tracking Turkey's 30 largest listed companies.
Ziraat's ETFs tracking bank stocks and the BIST 30 recorded a combined 4.05 billion lira in net inflows (~$83 million), the highest single-day figure since April 2025.
This means → the fund chose the most direct route: no jawboning, no rate cuts — real money into blue chips, signal delivered straight to the tape.
How did the redemption crisis start?
The root traces to August: regulators tightened rules on funds concentrated in low-liquidity stocks, aiming to curb abnormal price swings.
In plain terms = some funds were heavily loaded with thinly traded small-caps; once the rules tightened, forced selling triggered a cascade of price collapses.
Over the following week, several prominent funds declared they could not meet investor redemption requests. Panic spread — at its peak, roughly $1 billion fled Turkish funds in a single day.
What have regulators and the central bank done?
The capital-markets regulator ordered the liquidation of 131 investment funds and suspended trading in funds managed by seven asset-management firms.
The central bank moved in parallel: it raised the repo-financing facility to 300 billion lira and lifted interbank lending limits to 10 times their prior level.
This means → regulators are clearing out the toxic funds to stop the bleeding while the central bank injects liquidity to prevent a broader run — two fronts, simultaneously.
Did the intervention work? What's still uncertain?
Bank stocks rallied 8.9% on the day, a short-term boost to sentiment.
Sources say the sovereign fund will continue to intervene if extreme volatility returns in the coming days.
The core question remains: can direct stock purchases truly halt a spreading redemption wave, or has the fund merely bought the market breathing room? This reflects just how difficult restoring confidence in Turkey's financial system has become.
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