It's been more than a decade since a group of Whitney Bank and Hancock Bank financial advisers teamed with professors and students at the Tulane University Freeman School of Business to build a mutual fund that invested solely in Gulf Coast companies, one of the few of its kind in the nation. Hancock is now looking to take its regional investing approach to a national stage.
Hancock Holding Co., the Gulfport, Miss.-based parent company of Whitney Bank and Hancock Bank, on Dec.