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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. |
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. 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. 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2002 David A. Gaffen |
Light A Candle, or Curse the Darkness For brokers and financial advisors, 2002 may be remembered as the year in which those who knew they had the right stuff redoubled their efforts to elevate their skills and become the kind of advisors who could survive the bear market and build a 21st century practice. |
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. 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. 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. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Pat Olsen |
Michael Campbell Michael Campbell talks about his long career on Wall Street. |
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. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2013 Pat Olsen |
Life Stories: Wedbush Securities' Wes Long Discusses His Life In my office I have a framed compilation of quotes about perseverance by famous people. At the top it says "Don't Quit." |
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. 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. |
BusinessWeek September 2, 2010 Moore & Mildenberg |
In the Battle of the Big Brokers, Merrill Is Winning Merrill Lynch earns higher profits with fewer advisers, thanks to a smooth integration with Bank of America and more cross-selling. |
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. 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. |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 John Churchill |
Class-Action Threat Smith Barney is facing a new round of sex-discrimination suits. |
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. September 3, 2010 John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Hires Four HNW Advisors The latest hires by UBS Wealth Management Americas reflect its goal of attracting business from the ultra rich in mostly major metropolitan markets in the United States. |
On Wall Street May 6, 2010 Pat Olsen |
Life Stories: Denise Wypiszenski The Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of private wealth management company Robert W. Baird shares her career path. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2010 |
Who's News UBS Wealth Management Americas announces several new hires... Wells Fargo hires Stephen Zahka from Merrill Lynch and Jeremiah McNamara from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney... |
Registered Rep. March 9, 2011 Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Cutting 200-300 FAs And Trainees The firm's wealth management division, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, should end the quarter with about 17,800 advisors, still the largest brokerage force in the U.S. by headcount. |
On Wall Street December 1, 2011 |
Who's News Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hired three advisors from UBS Financial Services... Bank of America Merrill Lynch hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisors Raymond Stacy and Christopher Pieper... Wells Fargo Advisors hired advisor Zoran Vaz... |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Hates Its Profitable Assets With Smith Barney divested, shareholders may wonder where profits will come from. |
Registered Rep. July 21, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Assets, Advisors Decline at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Q2 Morgan Stanley is making continued progress on its integration with Smith Barney, but declines in assets and headcount suggest it may be feeling the pain of client and advisor departures. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 |
Who's News Stephen Lawrence joined Wells Fargo Advisors... Morgan Stanley Smith Barney recruited Laurence Braunstein... Paul Gilman and Marshall Hagen joined UBS... RBC wealth has recruited Jason Braunstein... more... |
Registered Rep. February 3, 2012 Kristen French |
Fight for Facebook Shares May Be Messy How the timing of the Facebook IPO matches with the completed integration of the Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney platforms, will play a big role in determining how shares are divvied up. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2011 |
Recruiting's Next Big Challenge A conversation with industry headhunters about the job market for financial advisors. |
On Wall Street May 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Sharpens Its Focus With the two-year anniversary of the creation of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the industry's largest brokerage business continues to take shape. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Expect a New Wave of Advisor Movement Even with rumblings that Wall Street firms could brace for cost cuts and layoffs this summer, competition for top wealth management talent is poised to remain strong. |
The Motley Fool September 27, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Rich or Not, You Should Do This Discount brokers are great even if you have the money. |
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. |
On Wall Street March 1, 2010 |
Who's News Merrill Lynch hires father-and-son team... Morgan Stanley recruits Carlos Van Maanen and Carlos Stolk... Emerson Knowles and Joseph Spicer leave Morgan STanley to join Merrill Lynch... RBC Wealth Management hires John Menefee and Tom Meagher... etc. |
Registered Rep. April 21, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Morgan Stanley Profits Rise, Advisor Count Flat Morgan Stanley on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected revenues and profits in the first quarter, lifted by its acquisition last spring of Smith Barney and by higher fixed income. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2011 |
Who's News Wells Fargo Advisors hired a father-son advisor team in Oak Brook, Ill., Wells Fargo has also hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisor Joseph Jaworski in Melville, N.Y., and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hired Frank Roccisano from UBS. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2010 |
Who's News People: David S. Lynn joins Morgan Stanley Smith Barney... UBS Private Wealth Management promotes Frank Minerva to COO... Philip Fett joins JPMorgan Chase... more... |
On Wall Street February 1, 2011 |
Who's News Greg Fleming, David Cooper, and Michael Kidd are new hires at major investment firms |