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On Wall Street
November 1, 2009
Helen Kearney |
Back on the Front Lines Over the past few months, both UBS and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney have completed their transitions to the 'complex' management structure. Many of the branch managers affected haven't had a book of business for years and say it's not an easy thing to conjure up overnight.   |
Registered Rep.
March 8, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Morgan Stanley Advisors Paid to Put Clients in New Amex Credit Card Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisors and client service associates will get a "small" amount of compensation for the administrative process of handling card sign up. |
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2006
Kristen French |
Gorman Streamlines Morgan, Brings on Merrill Friends In his first step as head of retail brokerage at Morgan Stanley, James Gorman has streamlined the firm's regional office structure -- reducing regional offices to four from eight and cutting out one layer of management. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2012 |
Who's News: Michael Maghini Moves to Bank of America Hirings this month include Michael Maghini moving to Bank of America Merrill Lynch from Morgan Stanley; Mark Rabbe to RBC from UBS; Al Weaver and John Worcester to Ameriprise from Morgan Stanley. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
From Top Dog to Compliance Monkey Many branch managers at full-service broker/dealers around the country have found in recent years that their old role as branch manager has diminished, as more business decisions are made by headquarters. |
Registered Rep.
October 22, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
MSSB Plans to Double Size of U.S. Division For Ultra Wealthy Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management will exclusively serve clients with a minimum of $20 million in assets. |
Registered Rep.
December 8, 2015 |
2015 Broker Report Card: Show Me The Money Advisors' gross production varied widely by firm in this year's survey results. |
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Firing 950 Brokers Morgan Stanley is firing 950 brokers, according to the various sources. |
Registered Rep.
November 10, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Waves Baby Carrot at Sales Assistants The brokerage announced plans to bump up the 2006 raise pool to 3.5 percent, and will offer an additional 5 percent to some underpaid SAs, starting in December. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Star Wars Recruiting competition between the top brokerage firms is fiercer than ever, and Morgan Stanley is currently wielding one of the most powerful deals on Wall Street. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Gimme Back My Ad! Morgan Stanley has directed key media outlets to contact its ad agency if they write "objectionable" stories about the company, and if they can't get through in time, to yank its ads for at least 48 hours. |
Registered Rep.
July 21, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Plans More Cost-cutting in Retail Brokerage; Integration on Target, Net Asset Flows Up Morgan Stanley financial advisors should expect more cost-cutting in the global wealth management division in coming quarters. |
Registered Rep.
April 21, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Assets Up, Headcount and Margins Down Morgan's other two divisions -- institutional securities and asset management -- recorded declines in income and revenues. |
Registered Rep.
April 27, 2004
Will Leitch |
Morgan, Restructuring Its Asset Management Unit, Closes 13 Funds Morgan Stanley announced it was dissolving 13 of its proprietary funds as part of its attempts to "streamline" its business for affluent investors. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2009
David Geracioti |
Can You Say, "Morgan Stanley Smith Barney?" The Joint Venture Launches Today The deal merging Citi's brokerage (Smith Barney) with Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group is closed -- ahead of schedule. |
Registered Rep.
January 20, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Wealth Management Has Strong Fourth Quarter At Morgan, BofA Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney nor Bank of America ended 2009 with a bang in the earnings department. But their wealth management units were pockets of strength. |
Registered Rep.
March 23, 2006
Kristen French |
Merrill To Gorman: Quit Poaching Our Reps And BOMs Is James Gorman, the new head of retail at Morgan Stanley, brazenly poaching employees from his old firm, Merrill Lynch? A judge apparently thinks so. |
Registered Rep.
March 7, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Morgan Stanley May Drop "Smith Barney" From Name Will the Smith Barney name go the way of A.G. Edwards, Bear Stearns, and other brokerages whose historic identities were sublimated following acquisitions by larger firms? |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2009
Kristen French |
Gorman Grabs Morgan Stanley CEO Slot James Gorman, the former head of Morgan Stanley's retail brokerage division and now co-president of the firm, is slated to take over the CEO job in January, 2010. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2012 |
Merrill Hires Lee Miller, Andrew Pleat and Mark Kean from UBS Morgan Stanley nabbed nine new advisors... Leaving Morgan Stanley, Jeff Smith joins Janney Montgomery Scott... Stifel Nicolaus has opened a new private client office in Madison, Ct... |
Registered Rep.
September 20, 2005
John Churchill |
Merrill Cutting Top Brass Merrill Lynch, famous for its seemingly continual reorganizations, is at it again. Specifically, the firm is firing half of its regional directors, sources say. |
Registered Rep.
April 11, 2011
Susan Konig |
Can Producing While You Manage Make You Better at Both? Some producers are not a formidable producers until they become producing branch managers. |
Registered Rep.
October 9, 2008 |
Smith Barney Closing Branches, Letting Managers Go As part of a larger cost-cutting effort, Smith Barney is consolidating some of its branch offices and laying off a number of its branch managers. |
Registered Rep.
August 10, 2005
Kristen French |
Sources: Morgan Cuts Slated for Thursday Morgan Stanley's human resources department created a performance-based formula for selecting the 1000 people to let go. |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2006
Kristen French |
Gorman Wields Knife Again Yesterday, new Morgan Stanley retail chief James Gorman unleashed a fresh round of cuts -- with more expected shortly -- as part of his efforts to right the faltering brokerage operation. |
The Motley Fool
March 1, 2011
Jordan DiPietro |
Should You Buy and Hold Morgan Stanley? Does this company have the traits of a good retirement stock? |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Andre Cappon |
Okay, Team, Listen Up! Whether some reps like to acknowledge it, the branch office manager is vital to the success of a given branch. |
Registered Rep.
January 10, 2011
Susan Konig |
In Tough Year, Unearthing Opportunities For Branch Managers Shifts in the wealth management business could spell opportunity for those managers who are able to reinvent themselves. |
Registered Rep.
November 29, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
Morgan Stanley in the EEOC's Sights on Age-Discrimination? The EEOC is investigating claims made by former Morgan Stanley advisors that the firm discriminated against older workers when it laid off 1,000 financial advisors back in 2005. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 18, 2003 |
Morgan Stanley Buys Lend Lease's U.S Real Estate Assets After weeks of speculation, Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy most of Lend Lease's U.S real estate investment arm. The purchase will bring Morgan Stanley's real estate assets to $30 billion once the deal is finalized. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Perky Purcell Gets Money for Life Morgan Stanley's latest proxy statement revealed that in addition to the $44 million bonus former CEO Phillip Purcell received as part of his exit package, he will continue to get other benefits for the rest of his life. |
Registered Rep.
July 14, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Morgan Stanley Offers $50 million In Overtime Settlement The settlement covers all financial advisors, trainees, producing branch managers, assistant branch managers and sales managers who live outside of California and were employed with the New York-based firm between Sept. 1, 2002, and April 21, 2008. |
National Real Estate Investor
March 1, 2007
Parke M. Chapman |
Global Investment Heavyweight Few U.S.-based investment managers have penetrated the Asian property markets as decisively as Morgan Stanley Real Estate. Leading the charge of the Asian campaign is managing director Sonny Kalsi. |
Registered Rep.
July 13, 2010
Susan Konig |
BOMs Work More, Earn Less In the 1970s through the early 1990s, plenty of financial advisors hoped one day to become branch managers. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Sam Jaffe |
Coaching in a Storm We spoke to dozens of the best branch office managers, from managers of tiny regional shops to lords of sprawling city offices. Their secret to success doesn't sound all that tough: work hard and pay attention to details. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Kristen French |
James Gorman's First Marking Period In his first four months as head of Morgan Stanley's brokerage unit, James Gorman wasted no time showing that a new regime was in place. But he hasn't convinced all the troops that it's worth sticking around to see how his turnaround plans play out. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Happy Holidays! You're Fired. The ax will fall at year's end for some 700 of 13,500 Morgan Stanley brokers. Some branches will be closed entirely. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
So They've Got That Going for Them...Which Is Nice For all the problems it's been having in the last several months, Morgan Stanley can hang its hat on this good news: It is now the largest securities firm in the country. |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2012 |
Who's News: Morgan Stanley Hires Leon Ciobataru, Luiz Boruchowski and Cheryl Young Morgan Stanley adds advisors, Baird has hired away industry veteran Karen Heintz from UBS, and four advisors from Merrill Lynch have moved to RBC. |
Registered Rep.
May 17, 2005
Kristen French |
Throwing Its Weight Around: Morgan Stanley Pulls Ads From Media That Cover Its Woes Is Morgan Stanley, the subject of almost daily news reports since March, trying to silence its critics? |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley Stumbles In light of Morgan Stanley's dismal earnings release, let's get one thing straight: It could have been much, much worse. |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Morgan, Smith Barney Reps Get Retention Awards, NOT Bonuses Top producers at both firms stand to receive as much as 105 percent of trailing twelve month production to stay with the joint firm. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010
Denise Federer |
The Agile Branch Manager For many managers, the numerous corporate mergers have required them to embrace new work cultures to lead advisors successfully through transitions. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
Gorman Gets It An interview with Morgan Stanley's James Gorman about the improvement in morale at the firm, what it took to get brokers turned around, what he still needs to accomplish and how Morgan is different from the rest of its Wall Street peers. |
Registered Rep.
January 27, 2006 |
Oy, Another Embarrassing Headline for Morgan Morgan Stanley's technology department head is accused of abusing his position to win gifts and services from tech companies, The New York Post reports. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2004
Roger Nusbaum |
The House of Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley has had its fair share of wrongdoing, but despite its warts, the brokerage firm should continue to thrive. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Riding High It was a fine year for brokerage firms -- especially their stocks. No one came up bigger than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in terms of percentage gains. |
Registered Rep.
December 14, 2012
Megan Leonhardt |
Wirehouses Dangle New Carrots, Small Sticks In 2013 Across the board, all four major wirehouses tweaked their compensation plans for the upcoming year; In some cases, they are upping the bar to earn payouts and putting greater emphasis on incentives to gain new, richer clients. |
Registered Rep.
April 8, 2004
Joan Warner |
Trouble In The House That Purcell Built? After suffering through a cruel bear market, Morgan Stanley has come under regulatory scrutiny and legal fire for practices in several key businesses in the past two years, including mutual fund sales. |
On Wall Street
March 1, 2011
Bill Willis |
The Power of Positive Leadership When you think of your branch manager, what images come to mind? Does he or she send off positive, negative or neutral vibes? Perhaps the message is mixed. |
