State Bank of India will sell a 1.42% stake in asset management unit SBI Funds Management to 30 investors for 16.55 billion rupees ($173.5 million) in a pre-IPO placement, the lender said on Thursday.
The stake sale at 574 rupees per share - the top end of the asset manager's IPO price band - provides an early benchmark for the unit's valuation and indicates institutional demand before the public offering.