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Registered Rep. August 12, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
Building a Better Separate-Account Mousetrap Separately managed accounts can be confusing, but the paperwork and operations behind them need not be -- or at least that's the thrust of a new effort by Smith Barney Consulting Group. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney: New Focus On the Horizon While most Smith Barney advisor respondents were generally unimpressed by the acquisition of Legg advisors, it'll be interesting to see if Smith Barney's jettisoning of its asset management group -- and resulting new focus on retail distribution -- will rejuvenate the firm. |
Registered Rep. April 18, 2007 Halah Touryalai |
Chuck Prince: Smith Barney Goin' Nowhere Citigroup's CEO has been at the center of company news recently with his plans to cut costs including last week's announcement of about 17,000 job cuts. That cut may affect over 100 Smith Barney employees and about 30 advisors. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's $1 Trillion Target Morgan Stanley Smith Barney focuses on growing its Consulting Group division, where it aims to double the assets in the managed account group to more than $1 trillion within the next five years. |
Registered Rep. May 30, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
The New Smith Barney CEO Sallie Krawcheck was recruited to restore the credibility of Smith Barney and lead the business through its toughest slump in a generation. Krawcheck wants Smith Barney advisors to more than double their average annual production to $1 million. |
Registered Rep. March 3, 2008 Christina Mucciolo |
Krawcheck Says Advisors Not Forced Into Wealth Silos: UPDATE Citigroup's reorganization of its private bank and Global Wealth Management division, announced Tuesday, will absolutely not force advisors into silos based on client wealth. |
Registered Rep. October 18, 2007 Halah Touryalai |
At Citi, Profits Are Down; Smith Barney Wins Five Morgan FAs With Nearly $600m AUM; ML Loses Two Citigroups' third-quarter profits are down 57%... over at its Smith Barney unit, Charlie Johnston's team had a pretty good recruiting week... etc. |
Registered Rep. December 12, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Pay Package: Perks Balance Cuts? This week, Smith Barney will become the first firm to make a change to its payout grid as a result of the securities industry's recent battle over broker overtime pay and so-called chargebacks. |
Financial Advisor March 2006 Sydney LeBlanc |
Joe Sixpack's Family Office? The Unified Managed Account actually is the newest SMA kid on the block, enabling clients to get a single statement across different products including SMAs, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, as well as multiple SMA managers. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2011 |
Michael McGrath In 2009, I became head of Alternative Investments for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Its joint venture with Smith Barney that same year gave me the opportunity to expand my horizons. |
Registered Rep. April 17, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Losing Advisors, Client Assets But while Smith Barney is losing reps, it also appears to be recruiting heavily. |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 John Churchill |
Should I Stay or Should I Go? When Smith Barney and Legg Mason announced a deal to swap the wirehouse's asset-management business for Legg's brokerage unit, a lot of Legg reps made calls to recruiters and began to prepare for a move. But now, a lot of reps have stopped packing. |
Registered Rep. April 29, 2004 David Gaffen |
Smith Barney Stays the Course Contrary to other large wirehouse brokerages, Smith Barney does not plan on aggressively expanding its sales force at this time. |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 John Churchill |
Class-Action Threat Smith Barney is facing a new round of sex-discrimination suits. |
Registered Rep. January 9, 2008 Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Snags Three Advisors From Rivals Smith Barney has started off the new year right with a recruiting victory. The firm recently hired three Merrill Lynch reps and one UBS advisor. |
Registered Rep. February 23, 2007 Kevin Burke |
Disgruntled Smith Barney Brokers Are Voting with Their Feet Sixty-nine brokers left Smith Barney, just ahead of a three-day weekend. Fridays before a long weekend are historically prime times for unhappy brokers to make a clean break, but the large number of brokers taking off on a single day is alarming. |
Registered Rep. December 16, 2004 David A. Gaffen |
Smith Barney's Matthews Retires; Johnston Steps In Tom Matthews, president of Smith Barney's global private client group, is retiring and Charles Johnston, currently director of the retail branch system at the firm, will replace him. |
Registered Rep. December 4, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
Weill Postpones Elimination of Salomon Name Sandy Weill, the chairman of Salomon Smith Barney's parent Citigroup, has informed brokers and other employees that plans to eliminate the Salomon name, a Wall Street hallmark for nearly a century, have been postponed, according to sources. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 Kristen French |
What's in a Name? Financial advisor is the name most of the other wirehouses use for their registered reps these days. It reflects the industry's attempts to transform its reps from commission-based stock jockeys to fee-based relationship managers. |
Registered Rep. November 18, 2005 Kristen French |
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 Christina Mucciolo |
Citi Reorganizes For Smith Barney Citigroup announces plans to reorganize its private bank and Global Wealth Management division into four separate units according to client wealth. |
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. 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. May 7, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Smith Barney Closes a Few Offices, Prepares to Consolidate Others The firm prepares to consolidate as part of a larger cost-cutting program in the works at parent Citigroup. |
Registered Rep. February 21, 2007 John Churchill |
Smith Barney Comp Pleasant Surprise Judging from initial reports from reps, the written version of the new plan is an improvement from the prior version -- a plan many reps equated to a pay cut despite the firm's insistence that it was "revenue neutral." |
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. June 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen |
Expand the Sales Force? Not Smith Barney The firm does not plan on aggressively expanding its sales force at this time, but rather intends to maintain its staffing level --- currently about 12,500 financial advisors. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 Angela Covo |
Skirts Vs. Smith Barney Less than 10 years after they settled the infamous "boom-boom room" case, Smith Barney is being sued for gender discrimination again. |
Investment Advisor July 2006 Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning: Retirement Advisor Profile Novice unified managed accounts (UMAs): just right for retiring boomers. |
Registered Rep. July 19, 2004 David A. Gaffen |
Several Large Producers Leave Smith Barney Smith Barney has been hit with a few high-profile defections in the last month or so, as several large producers have taken their lucrative businesses to other firms. |
Financial Advisor December 2003 Sydney LeBlanc |
Unified We Stand The latest sensation in managed accounts offers streamlined service. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Crackberry Addicts Fight Back Run afoul of the law while tapping or yapping into your Blackberry and you may have a case-against your employer. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007 John Churchill |
Sallie's Back At first glance, this second coming of Sallie Krawcheck probably looks like a cakewalk compared to her first adventure in 2002. But, make no mistake: Smith Barney is not the awesome brokerage it appears to be on paper. |
Registered Rep. January 12, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Citi Grabs a Lifeline, Morgan Stages a Coup Despite a $45 billion capital injection from the government in 2008, Citi is in dire enough need of capital that it is planning to spin off its retail brokerage operation, Smith Barney, according to reports, in a joint venture with cross-town rival Morgan Stanley |
Registered Rep. September 13, 2007 Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Finally Pays Off Smith Barney brokers may be the first to cash in on overtime lawsuits that have been all the rage over the last two years. |
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Tim Clark |
Rounding Out Wealth As unified manged accounts go mainstream, new technologies are emerging to support the next wave of wealth management. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 David Geracioti |
Sallie Krawcheck A conversation with Sally Krawcheck, CEO of Citigroup's Smith Barney unit, about the company's recent reorganization. |
Registered Rep. September 10, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
Existing Clients Want More Advice The good news for reps is that the world doesn't hate you. The bad news is that acquiring clients -- particularly affluent ones -- is getting a lot more tough. |
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Jessica Pallay |
Masters of the Universe Unified managed accounts are helping financial advisers maintain control of their customers' assets. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 Kristen French |
More or Less? Smith Barney overhauled its pay package -- just in time for the new year. Some of the changes it made were pretty radical -- especially for an industry in which any pay change, no matter how minor, is often a source of uproar. |
Registered Rep. December 11, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
Smith Barney Changes Payout Grid Smith Barney is altering its compensation system for 2004, with the main goal being to simplify its payouts and make them more product-neutral. |
Registered Rep. July 25, 2007 Kevin Burke |
Smith Barney Fined $50 Million for Market Timing; More Firms, Reps To Be Fined So you thought the market timing scandal was over? Think again. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 Gaffen & Weinberg |
Brokers React to Citi's Research Move Sallie Krawcheck, former head of independent research firm Sanford C. Bernstein, will head a new business unit of Citigroup that will operate under the name Smith Barney, and include the private client group. Smith Barney brokers are skeptical, though. |
Registered Rep. November 10, 2010 Diana Britton |
Outlook 2011: Multi-Year Bull Market Upon Us We are in a multi-year bull market for equities, especially emerging market equities, said panelists at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's 2011 outlook event Wednesday. |
Registered Rep. January 14, 2011 Kristen French |
Some MSSB Advisors Upset by Johnston's Departure Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman announced Thursday that Greg Fleming, head of the firm's asset management business, will replace Charles Johnston as head of wealth management. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Get What You Pay For Financial advisors are scrambling to find new ways to get at your hard-earned moola. Their latest lure? Unified Managed Accounts. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn |
Separate Ways As fee-oriented investment management increasingly appeals to advisors and clients, fee-structured accounts are growing apace. Or not, depending on how the terms are defined. |
Registered Rep. May 29, 2007 Kevin Burke |
Smith Barney's Krawcheck to Smooth Out Comp. Plan The brokerage giant's top executive is set to tweak the firm's compensation plan in an attempt to address financial advisors' repeated complaints over pay complexities and claims of unfairness. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 John Churchill |
Shaky Third Quarter Gives Advisors Pause The last quarter hasn't been great for retail brokerages. Low trading activity and geopolitical uncertainty kept investors on the sidelines, and advisors are feeling the pinch. |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 John Churchill |
Hidden Dragon The New York Post reported in in error that Eve Salvail, the French-Canadian model known for the elaborate dragon tattoo that adorns her head, had become a financial consultant at the firm. |