Stronger Fund Sales Lift IGM’s Prospects

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IGM FINANCIAL INC. $54 (Toronto symbol IGM; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 264.9 million; Market cap: $14.3 billion; SI Rating: Above average) sold $294.2 million worth of new mutual funds, net of redemptions, in June 2007. That’s a big improvement over net sales of just $8.3 million in June 2006. Most of the improvement came from the Mackenzie division, particularly for anything other than money-market funds. That’s good news for IGM, since these funds have lower redemption rates and earn higher fees than its money-market funds. IGM had assets under management of $125.9 billion at the end of June, down 0.5% from May 2007, due to stock market losses at some of its funds. But that’s still up 21.4% from a year earlier. IGM Financial is a buy. buy…