Faced with a turbulent market in 2011, Morgan Keegan has continued to make significant financial commitments both to municipal underwriting and trading. Our 28 trading and underwriting professionals on our 4 municipal desks average more than 20 years in the business, managing 488 issues worth more than $9.2 billion in 2011 alone. Local credit markets are monitored by the Memphis headquarters and 3 additional regional desks, providing more timely, more accurate market insight than many other firms.
Combine our trading and underwriting expertise with the professionals from our 23 public finance offices and our investment banking division, and you have one of the most active firms in the nation as an underwriter of municipal bonds.
We can provide more options and more knowledge about a particular issue, from documents to pricing in the secondary market. As a result, everyone you work with from investment banker to broker has credit knowledge of state and local issuers and the types of municipal fixed income product that will achieve the maximum potential for your portfolio.
A Leader in Municipal Securities
According to Thomson Reuters, Morgan Keegan ranked as the 9th largest senior manager of competitive long term municipal issues in the nation in 2011. We remain the leading underwriter of municipal issues in the South Central United States for the 19th consecutive year.
