Mutual fund sales finished 2010 on a strong note, with between $1.17 billion and $1.67 billion in net sales, according to preliminary estimates from the Investment Funds Institute of Canada.
Total industry assets are estimated to have ended the year between $632.1 billion and $637.1 billion, up 2.4% from the end of November.
Several companies released details of their sales for the month.
DundeeWealth finished the year with $35.2 billion in mutual fund assets under management. Its Dynamic Funds reported net sales of $401 million for long-term funds, with an additional $8 million in money market fund sales. For the full year, Dynamic generated $4.1 billion in long-term mutual fund net sales with short-term mutual fund net redemptions of $70 million.
Fidelity reported total net sales of $282 million, with net assets of $50.8 billion. Money market funds saw a small outflow of $15 million.
Mackenzie Financial reported $140.4 million in net redemptions for December, consisting of $132.3 million in long-term fund outflows, with another $8.1 million coming out of money market funds. Total mutual fund AUM at the end of 2010 stood at $43.5 billion, up 7% from the end of December 2009.
Investors Group reported $54.6 million in mutual fund redemptions, including $51.8 million in long-term fund outflows and $2.8 million in money market redemptions.
Mutual fund assets under management were $61.8 billion at December 31, 2010 compared with $57.7 billion at December 31, 2009.
CI Financial posted net mutual fund redemptions of $110 million, which the company chalked up to institutional rebalancing and year-end RIF payments. Full-year fund sales totalled $1.1 billion.
The company reported retail assets under management at December 31, 2010 of $71.8 billion, up 6.1% from November. That increase is in no small part due to the acquisition of Hartford Investments Canada, which had $1.8 billion in assets under management.
AGF Management reported $113.6 million in net redemptions of long-term mutual funds, with an additional $17.4 million in redemptions from money market funds. Assets under management ended the year at $44.1 billion, down from $45.0 billion at December 31, 2009.