IFG set to meet analyst forecasts

FINANCIAL services group IFG has said that it is on course to meet market expectations — in terms of financial results — after a strong beginning to the year.

The group is due to publish its interim set of results, for the first six months of the calendar year in late August, but yesterday issued a mainly upbeat interim management statement detailing trading performance over the course of the first four months of 2008.

It also reiterated that it expects to generate adjusted earnings per share of between 25c and 26c, in line with what analysts are expecting.