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Monday, January 26, 2015

Will Regions Swallow Another Nine-Figure Morgan Keegan Settlement?

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Six years after selling its retail mutual fund business, Regions Financial is preparing to swallow another nine-figure settlement over that business' fixed income pain during the financial crisis.

Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that yesterday an outline of the settlement was filed in Memphis, Tennessee in federal court. The wire service says that the $125 million settlement would send $110 million in cash to investors in three Morgan Keegan [profile] mutual funds, with the remaining $15 million going into the funds themselves. Yet the fund shareholders' lawyers, Reuters says, will shoot for taking up to 30 percent (i.e. $37.5 million) of the total.

The three funds -- the Morgan Keegan Short Term Bond Fund, the Morgan Keegan Select Intermediate Bond Fund, and the Morgan Keegan Select High Income Fund -- suffered big losses in 2007 in the lead up to the financial crisis. In 2011 Finra and the SEC unveiled a $210-million settlement with Regions over Morgan Keegan's use, and alleged hiding of that use, of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities inside the funds. There were a number of smaller awards, too, mostly to individual investors: $1.4 million in 2012; $1.46 million in 2009, upheld in 2012; $9.2 million reinstated in 2012; $2.5 million in 2010; and $25,000 in 2009. The funds' directors settled with the SEC in 2013. Regions also dodged at least one bullet, to the tune of $1.9 million, in 2012.

As the financial crisis heated up further in 2008, Birmingham-based Regions dropped Memphis-based Morgan and PM James Kelsoe from seven bond funds and handed them over the New York City-based Hyperion Brookfield Asset Management [profile]. In 2009, Regions sold its remaining, 11-fund, retail mutual fund business to Pioneer. And in 2012 Raymond James bought Morgan Keegan itself, a broker-dealer. Reuters reports that the three Morgan Keegan funds in question in the settlement, now called Helios funds, are being liquidated. 

Edited by: Neil Anderson, Managing Editor


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