UBS also cut its target price on the firm from AU$3.30 to AU$2.30, and this marks the Swiss bank's first ever downgrade of the stock since its listing.

The Adani bribery charges have sparked a “snap change” in client flows for the fund manager and research analysts are cutting their price targets.

Rajiv Jain’s GQG Partners Inc., one of the biggest investors in units of Adani Group, said it will buy back its own shares after they plunged on concern over the money manager’s exposure to the embattled Indian conglomerate.