1983
Firm offers stock to the public.
1984
Stockholders equity reaches $25 million.
1985
Stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Revenues exceed $50 million for the first time.
1986
Firm moves into asset management with initial offering of shares of the Morgan Keegan Southern Capital Fund.
1988
First acquisition is made with purchase of Geary & Patterson of Jackson, Mississippi.
1989
Morgan Keegan analysts are first to recommend best performing NYSE stock for second straight year.
Acquisition of T.J. Raney & Sons, Arkansas' oldest investment banking firm.
Firm ranks first in nation in underwriting taxable housing bonds.
Acquisition of George M. Wood & Company in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Louisiana investment firm of Scharff & Jones, Inc.
