General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> March 11, 2002

Charles Murray – Regions Financial Corporation

CHARLES A. MURRAY is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager of Regions fInancial Corporation. He has been responsible for the day-to-day management of the Regions Aggressive Growth Fund since March 1999. Mr. Murray served as Portfolio Aggressive Growth Fund Manager and Analyst in the Capital Management Group, managing equity portfolios and balanced accounts from 1974. Since joining Regions Bank in 1972, he served as a Portfolio Manager for small/mid-cap common trust funds, a convertible income fund and a fixed income fund from 1978 through 1992. Mr. Murray served as Portfolio Manager of the Regions Growth Fund Priority Equity Fund) from 1992 through 1995. He has been Employee Benefits Account Portfolio Manager from 1996 through the present. Mr. Murray earned a BS from the University of Alabama. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a Member of the Alabama Society of Financial Analysts and Association for Investment Management and Research. Profile
TWST: Could you start by giving us a brief overview of Regions Financial

Corporation?

Mr. Murray: Regions Financial Corporation, formerly First Alabama

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