November 18, 2005
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (November 18, 2005) - The Focus List of Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., was once again ranked among the best in the industry, placing second among the recommended list of stocks of 12 leading national and regional brokerage firms for the third quarter of 2005, according to Zacks Investment Research Inc. Morgan Keegan's Focus List, which posted a 10.57% return for the third quarter, also placed second for year-to-date and one-year performance.
Zacks analysts said that Morgan Keegan's Focus List benefited from the firm's overweighting of the energy and technology sectors, specifically from exposure to drillers, exploration and production companies.
In 1988, Morgan Keegan created the Focus Group to make the firm's equity research more accessible for the individual investor. The Focus Group, which includes representatives from equity research, institutional sales, equity strategy and retail sales, reviews the firm's universe of over 200 stocks and selects the ones most appropriate for an individual's personal portfolio. To determine their list, the Focus Group endorses only those stocks that demonstrate the potential for maximum investment return.
Zacks Investment Research Inc., an independent research source for Fortune.com, tracks the stock recommendations of 12 major brokerage firms in the monthly survey. The Zacks survey is intended to give investors an indication how their portfolio would perform if investment professionals selected their stocks. Figures as reported by Zacks Investment Research, Inc. include price changes, dividends and hypothetical trading commissions of 1%. A detailed report on the specific performance of each Morgan Keegan Focus List selection is available upon request. Past performance is not a guarantee of future success, and these results would only have been obtained using Zacks Investment Research, Inc. methodology. This was a period of generally rising securities prices.
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