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Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Broker Fights for His Reputation--and Wins (Some of It Back) Philip Spartis, a former highflying Salomon Smith Barney broker, last week won a $1 million defamation judgment against lawyer Stuart Goldberg in an Arizona court.   |
Registered Rep.
September 24, 2002
David A. Gaffen |
Former Brokers Sue SSB, Grubman, Even Sandy Weill Want $100 Million Each for Wrongful Termination, Defamation Spartis and Elias claim that they were wrongfully fired from their positions in February of this year after the firm, in their eyes, did not adequately represent them in complaints filed by customers related to WorldCom. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
David A. Geracioti |
Spartis, Elias Each Seek $100M From Smith Barney Spartis and Elias claim they were wrongfully fired in February. They claim that Smith Barney did not adequately represent them in WorldCom-related customer complaints. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Smith Barney Settles On WorldCom; Spartis, Elias Continue Fighting A million dollars. That's the amount brokerage firm Smith Barney agreed to pay in a settlement with the New York Stock Exchange in an investigation of improper conduct at an Atlanta branch of the firm related to WorldCom employee/shareholders. |
Registered Rep.
May 5, 2003
Will Leitch |
"Shoot Grubman" and Other Opinions from the Spitzer Files A compilation of broker and investment banker comments about SSB's Jack Grubman from 1999-2001. |
Registered Rep.
September 3, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Two Smith Barney Reps Deny NYSE Allegations Two former Smith Barney employees have denied WorldCom-related allegations brought against them by the NYSE. |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2003
Will Leitch |
Historic Settlement Doesn't Target Brokers -- But You're Hardly Home Free Now that the Wall Street global settlement is official, brokers might be inclined to heave a sigh of relief. Don't. While the settlement will have a lasting impact on the brokerage industry, brokers have been unscathed by the Spitzer investigations -- so far. |
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.
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Emily Thornton |
Why You Lost All That Money In Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors, author Charles Gasparino shows how top research analysts and their investment bank bosses preyed on unsuspecting individual investors. |
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.
October 23, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Spartis Cleared In Failure to Cooperate Charge Former Smith Barney broker Phil Spartis, who was responsible for overseeing the options exercise program for WorldCom employees, has been cleared of a charge brought against him by the New York Stock Exchange. |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2002
David A. Gaffen |
Without Mentioning Schwab by Name, Merrill's Gorman Bites Back Speaking at SIA's Retail Management Conference in Chicago, James Gorman, president of Merrill Lynch's private client group, directed blunt comments at those who imply that Merrill and other big wirehouses are "boiler rooms." |
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.
December 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Brokers Still Heading for Exits There has been a parade of top brokers who have left Morgan Stanley in recent months. The losses, which began under embattled former CEO Phil Purcell, have not abated since his replacement, John Mack, arrived in June. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Peer inside the strange, mixed-up world of securities analysis. |
Registered Rep.
August 12, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Pink-Slips Brokers, Clients Reassigned New Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack made his first big move on Morgan's rank-and-file this week, instructing branch managers to dismiss approximately 1,000 brokers. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Your Book or Your Life! What would you do if you lost your book? Where would you turn for new customers? Where could you be hired? Those are questions that keep many advisors up at night. |
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.
December 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley: Tomorrow Is Another Day In this survey, the management upheaval and culling of broker ranks shows in the grades Morgan brokers give their firm. |
Registered Rep.
March 3, 2006
Halah Tourylai |
Third Wirehouse Coughs Up Millions In Overtime Cases Yesterday, Morgan Stanley became the third wirehouse, after Merrill Lynch and UBS, to settle class action suits with California brokers over overtime pay in the past seven months -- the second in three weeks. |
Registered Rep.
July 26, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Trainee Program Could Get Whacked John Mack is moving quickly to get Morgan Stanley's ailing retail brokerage in shape. |
Registered Rep.
July 21, 2005
Kristen French |
On the Gossip Trail: Mack to Replace Schaefer--But With Whom? When Morgan Stanley announced that the head of its struggling retail brokerage unit was stepping down, Wall Street immediately began speculating about who will be chosen as his successor -- and what that successor might augur for the retail brokerage. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002 |
The Year that Was...And Wasn't The I-Wish-I-Hadn't-Said-That Award... "Lipstick This" Award... We're Watching... Understatements of the Year Award... Reckless Statement of the Year... The Name Game... |
Salon.com
November 19, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
The ABCs of crony capitalism Jack Grubman touted AT&T's stock to get his kids into a tony nursery school -- showing that fleecing consumers is like child's play in corporate America. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2003
Gaffen & Geracioti |
The Future of the Industry The broker has to be a person who can handle every aspect of a client's financial life. The broker must evolve into a kind of chief financial officer for the client -- managing everything from investments to insurance to estate planning to mortgage banking. |
Registered Rep.
January 28, 2003 |
Weiss Study: Analyst Community Still a "Sell" Out A study of the ratings systems at 30 brokerage firms showed significant improvement in their identification of companies heading into bankruptcy. On the down side, though, a surprising number continue to recommend companies right up to the day they file for Chapter 11. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2005
Erin Joyce |
Ebbers' Fraud Trial Under Way Defense for former CEO of failed WorldCom seeks to point finger at others in accounting fraud trial. |
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 1, 2006
Mindy Diamond |
On the Rebound Big firms are sending low-producing brokers messages that they are no longer as wanted as they once were. Brokers who see the handwriting on the wall, may have better options if they jump to another firm before being pushed. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Bonus Bait Morgan Stanley is planning to offer bonuses to brokers who expand their production in 2006. |
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.
October 1, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Boosts Pay for Fee Business Morgan Stanley unveiled a new compensation plan for brokers that rewards fee-based business and penalizes transactional business. |
Registered Rep.
September 13, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Morgan Joins Inter-Brokerage TRO Pact This firm has officially opted to join the inter-brokerage pact, which stipulates that members will not sue brokers departing to other firms when they try to take their clients with them -- as long as they are moving to another firm named in the pact. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kevin Burke |
Reshuffling the Decks There is an unusual amount of reorganization afoot, with Merrill, Wachovia, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney all shaking up their retail brokerage operations. Some of the moves have direct implications for retail advisors. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Jonathan P. Arfa |
First, Hire the Lawyers With heavy investor losses, customer claims filed with the NYSE and the NASD are expected to hit an all-time high in 2002. What should a broker do if they are the target of a complaint? |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Morgan Joins TRO Pact Morgan Stanley has officially opted to join the inter-brokerage pact, first created in the fall of 2004, which stipulates that members will not sue brokers departing to other firms when they try to take their clients with them. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Brokers Fear Arbitration... With arbitration cases on the rise, many brokers are worried about the prospect of being dragged through a legal process that, because of the current environment, some believe is heavily slanted toward the client. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
What Stockbrokers Really Do Brokers are agents who take and fill your orders to buy and sell stocks and other securities. A former broker revealed to us how he was trained and under what conditions brokers often work. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2006
Kristen French |
Brokers Learning to Play by New Rules It's no longer business as usual on Wall Street. Starting yesterday, broker/dealers must follow a new SEC rule that requires them to disclose at certain times that they may not be acting in their clients' best interest. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Mindy Diamond |
Culture Shock Two questions that should be on the mind of regional brokers are: "Would I want to work in a wirehouse, and will it serve my clients' needs?" |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Mindy Diamond |
Don't Be Dazzled by Prestige Names But just as Harvard is not the best place for every high school valedictorian, private client groups at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan are not always the best places for an advisor focused on ultra-high-net-worth clients. |
Registered Rep.
February 22, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Brokers Headed for Sweep in Overtime Pay Cases? Stockbrokers have won their second big overtime pay case against Wall Street firms and this may only be the beginning of a rout that could cost brokerage houses many millions of dollars more. |
Registered Rep.
September 14, 2005
Kristen French |
Overtime Pay, Chargebacks Under Fire; Morgan Stanley Latest Firm in Lawyers' Sights A $450 million class-action lawsuit filed in New York against Morgan Stanley on Friday could have major implications for brokerages' pay practices in the state. |
BusinessWeek
August 30, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Brokers Aren't Advisers The line between brokers and advisers was clear for decades. But in 1999, the Securities & Exchange Commission blurred that line. Now, to protect investors, the SEC must redraw a clear line. |
The Motley Fool
March 15, 2005 |
"Initiating Coverage" Read Wall Street coverage of your stocks with a wary eye. |
Registered Rep.
June 24, 2004
John Churchill |
Morgan Stanley Sued by New Hampshire Regulators New Hampshire securities regulators are suing Morgan Stanley, charging that in 2002 the firm encouraged its brokers to sell proprietary mutual funds by using sales contests, a violation of NASD rules. |
