ZURICH, May 28 (Reuters) - EFG International on Tuesday reported a 7.6% rise in client inflows for the first four months of the year, beating its own target, after takeover talks with larger Swiss competitor Julius Baer stalled.

The lender, which has hired extensively from Credit Suisse in the wake of the bank's collapse, said inflows reached 3.6 billion Swiss francs ($3.95 billion) for the period.

That topped a forecast from Vontobel analyst Andreas Venditti who had expected 2.5 billion francs of inflows for the four-month period.

"We have achieved a promising start to the year with strong financial performance and increased client momentum, resulting in a significant acceleration of net asset inflows," Chief Executive Giorgio Pradelli said in a statement.

EFG reported net profit of 110 million francs for the period but did not provide the corresponding profit a year earlier, as it previously reported on a quarterly basis. For the full year last year, it reported net profit of 303.2 million francs.

The update for January through April, provided for the first time, puts its calendar in sync with Julius Baer, which reported inflows of 1 billion Swiss francs for the same period.

Baer had held talks with EFG about a potential takeover in recent months, but the discussions have stopped, Reuters reported last week.

The two Swiss banks were in talks around the time Julius Baer ousted its chief executive officer Philipp Rickenbacher in February, after losses on loans to failed property firm Signa.

Julius Baer considered EFG's CEO Giorgio Pradelli as a potential head of a combined entity as part of the takeover deliberations.

Strategically, a combination is questionable, RBC analysts wrote in a note to clients after the media reports. Baer has been investing and the additional challenge of integrating EFG would raise questions, the analysts wrote.

EFG reported its assets under management rose by 11% to 157.5 billion francs from 142.2 billion francs at the end of 2023, more than the 156 billion francs estimated by Venditti. ($1 = 0.9121 Swiss francs) (Reporting by Noele Illien; Editing by Jamie Freed and Sonali Paul)