Potential MFS Deal has Risks for Sun Life

Reuters, Lynne Olver, 20 September 2006Sun Life Financial Inc.'s Boston-based MFS Investment Management unit could be worth $4 billion to $5 billion, analysts estimate, but some also see risks in merging or selling the U.S. money manager.Toronto-based insurer Sun Life said earlier this week that it had hired advisers and was mulling alternatives for MFS, where profit margins are rising but remain