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Registered Rep.
September 8, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Discrimination Suit Moves Forward After Failed Settlement Talks The racial-discrimination suit against Merrill Lynch is under way again after settlement talks between African-American brokers and the firm came to a halt in early June.   |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2008 |
Merrill's Retention Package: Just For White Guys? Stowell & Friedman, a Chicago-based law firm, files a suit against Merrill Lynch claiming African-American and female brokers at the firm have been largely excluded from its retention-bonus plan. |
Registered Rep.
March 10, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Stan O'Neal Meets Black Brokers; Gets Criticized for Being Sexist While Merrill Lynch executives strive to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging systemic racism on the part of the firm, when news got around that CEO Stan O'Neal, who is black, personally attended one meeting with litigants, charges of sexism abounded. |
Registered Rep.
September 19, 2006
John Churchill |
Merrill's O'Neal to Be Deposed for Discrimination Suit Stanley O'Neal, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, will be deposed as part of the discovery phase in a race-discrimination suit filed by one of the firm's black brokers. |
Registered Rep.
February 24, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Seven Years Later, Merrill Broker Discrimination Class Action Gets go Ahead The lawsuit will go to court in April, and then the judge will set a date for trial. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Race Discrimination Cloud Hangs Over Good Year For Merrill Lynch and UBS, allegations of widespread racial discrimination put a damper on an otherwise stellar year for the firms. Both wirehouses were named in separate lawsuits seeking class-action status raised by black brokers who allege a pattern of discrimination at the two firms. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2003 |
Merrill CEO: We're Hiring Stan O'Neal, chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, says the company is accelerating its hiring of financial advisors. |
Registered Rep.
February 10, 2009 |
In First Media Interview, McCann Says Resignation Was At A "Logical Time" In his first interview since leaving Merrill Lynch, Robert J. McCann says he maintains good feelings for both Merrill Lynch and the timing of his departure. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Merrill Watching Consolidation with Eyes Wide Open James Gorman, head of Merrill Lynch's private client group, believes the brokerage industry will continue to consolidate in the coming years. |
Registered Rep.
August 13, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Grabs Advisors Producing $5.5 million From Rival UBS Merrill Lynch won big last week in the aggressive industry-wide recruiting war for top advisors. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2012
Lorie Konish |
Settlement May Not End Merrill Lynch's Deferred Compensation Woes Exemptions and the chance to opt out have lawyers predicting the $40 million proposed deferred compensation plan settlement will not cease litigation against Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep.
November 13, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Mother Merrill Mulls a New Roost...Seven Years From Now The world's largest brokerage firm confirmed that it is considering relocating from its headquarters in New York's World Financial Center when its lease runs out in 2013. |
Registered Rep.
October 26, 2007
David Geracioti |
O'Neal Rumored To Be On the Chopping Block Apparently Merrill Lynch has been gorging itself on risk. And, it may cost CEO Stan O'Neal his job. Merrill's shares are down by about 35% this year. |
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Fighting Back Against Recent Defections The recruiting war for top brokers remains fierce. The latest evidence of the fight to win million-dollar producers involves the industry's biggest firms. |
Registered Rep.
October 24, 2008
John Churchill |
Merrill Retention Is Adequate for Top Dogs, Scanty for Lower-Tier Producers The long-awaited Merrill Lynch retention package has arrived. Not surprisingly, top producers will probably be pleased, but others may not. |
Registered Rep.
April 26, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Hydie Sumner Fired by Wachovia It's been ten years of legal wrangling with Hydie Sumner's former employer, Merrill Lynch. But today it's another firm at the center of the Sumner drama -- Wachovia Securities, which fired her yesterday. |
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2015 |
Merrill Lynch: A Simple and Streamlined Approach Merrill Lynch designed Merrill Lynch One, a multi-year, $100 million project that brought together five disparate money management platforms, each with their own fee structure, enrollment process and website. |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2007
Maria Bartiromo |
John Thain on His New Job as CEO of Merrill Lynch John Thain talks about his appointment as CEO of Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
900 Down, Only a Handful to Go--Merrill Pays One More Female Broker; Separately, Thousands of Female Morgan Stanley Reps May Settle One of the last claimants from the 1997 class-action discrimination lawsuit against Merrill Lynch collected her reward late last month. Separately, Morgan Stanley has confirmed that it settled with over 3,000 claimants but would not comment further. |
Registered Rep.
August 24, 2006
John Churchill |
Merrill and Hydie Sumner, Still Can't Work it Out Merrill Lynch has apparently decided it's had enough of Hydie Sumner, a former broker who sued the firm successfully in 2004 for sexual discrimination. |
Registered Rep.
November 15, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
Merrill Stops Squirming, Reps Have Mixed Reviews Previously, Merrill Lynch chiefs have usually been plucked from in house, and were former brokers, convivial and backslapping. By contrast, recently hired CEO John Thain is considered cerebral and not charismatic. |
Registered Rep.
October 10, 2008
John Churchill |
McCann: Merrill Managers Get No Retention, FA Package Due in Two Weeks Merrill's president revealed that managers will get no retention package and only the top third of financial advisors will be getting a deal. |
Registered Rep.
October 20, 2005
John Churchill |
Merrill Call Center Under Microscope The financial firm's brokerage call centers, its service centers for less complicated and less profitable accounts, are under investigation by the NASD for past improprieties. |
Registered Rep.
October 23, 2007
John Churchill |
Pre-Earnings Whisper Not Good for Merrill By announcing the likelihood of a multibillion-dollar write-down in its third quarter a few weeks ago, Merrill Lynch prepared investors for dismal earnings. |
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Merrill Cost-Cutting Centers on Client Segmentation, Less Bureacracy Merrill Lynch financial advisors can expect Bank of America cost-cutting to take the form of greater client segmentation and reduced bureaucracy, said John Thiel of Merrill Lynch |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
Kathleen M. McBride |
Merrill's Big Plans The importance of culture at the organization is what Sallie Krawcheck spoke of at her first press conference as president of Global Wealth Management & Investment Management at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch: Still Wirehouse Queen Merrill reps like what they see. This year, the firm kept top honors among wirehouses in the Broker Report Card surveys, and beat its own overall score from last year. |
Registered Rep.
September 5, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
While O'Neal Speaks, Rumors Fly Merrill Lynch President Stan O'Neal spoke at his firm's financial services conference about the erosion of investor confidence and restoring investor trust. But the buzz was all about a report in a German newspaper that UBS AG had made an offer for Merrill. |
Registered Rep.
March 9, 2007 |
The Legal Battle that just Keeps on Going The former broker who won $2.2 million from Merrill Lynch in a discrimination lawsuit has filed suit again, this time countersuing a former sales manager at Merrill Lynch's San Antonio office. |
Registered Rep.
June 15, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Requests End to Discovery in Racial Discrimination Suit Registered Rep. reported in error that a judge ruled in favor of Merrill Lynch in a discrimination suit. The judge in the case has referred the decision to a magistrate judge and a ruling has yet to be made. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Glenn Curtis |
Is Merrill Lynch Headed to the Altar? Despite repeated denials by UBS CEO Marcel Ospel, there is persistent speculation that the Zurich-based bank has been preparing a formal takeover bid for Merrill Lynch. However, there are hurdles, and Merrill may stick it out alone. |
Registered Rep.
November 6, 2008 |
Bank Of America To Sign Protocol, Herd Still Weighing Options Bank of America intends to sign the so-called "broker protocol," an agreement signed by most of the brokerage firms and RIAs stipulating what client information is acceptable for a departing financial advisor to take without getting sued by the former employer. But when? |
Registered Rep.
June 10, 2005
Kristen French |
On the (Acquisition) Warpath Merrill Lynch is hungry to buy companies. |
Registered Rep.
September 25, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
NY Attorney General: I Could Have Nailed Merrill on More Serious Charges Eliot Spitzer said he could have pursued criminal charges against Merrill Lynch for its conflicts of interest in its research, but that he didn't want to "destroy" the firm or Wall Street. |
Registered Rep.
June 6, 2005
Kristen French |
Gorman's New Job at Merrill: Demotion or Promotion? The leadership change was welcomed by brokers but is unlikely to shake things up at the brokerage unit. |
Registered Rep.
June 11, 2008 |
Thain + You, Sittin' in A Tree Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain heaps praise upon the wealth management division during an interview. |
Registered Rep.
November 14, 2007
John Churchill |
NYSE's John Thain New Merrill CEO According to reports in the online versions of the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, NYSE Euronext CEO John Thain has accepted the top spot at Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep.
September 8, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Male-Bashing at Mother Merrill? Merrill's sex-discrimination troubles just won't go away. But this time it isn't a woman raising a stink. Blas Catalani, a former sales manager at Merrill Lynch's San Antonio office, is suing a female ex-broker and her lawyer on grounds that the two women conspired to get him fired. |
Registered Rep.
August 4, 2009
French & Churchill |
Dan Sontag Departs Merrill Lynch Much beloved by Merrill financial advisors, Dan Sontag is stepping down as head of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management. |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2006
Kristen French |
Gorman Unrestrained Morgan Stanley retail chief James Gorman was freed by a New York State judge of the temporary restraining order that prevented him from raiding Merrill Lynch's brokerage ranks. |
Registered Rep.
March 12, 2004
John Churchill |
Merrill Rewards CEO for Record Profits According to the company's 2004 proxy statement, O'Neal's massive compensation is due to the company's superior performance in 2003. Merrill tallied $4 billion in profits and improved revenue during tough market conditions. |
Registered Rep.
November 14, 2008 |
Update: 6,200 Merrill FAs Sign BofA Retention At Deadline Merrill says that only about half of the firm's nearly 17,000 advisors were eligible in the first place, and that they are responsible for about 75 percent of the firm's production. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010
Howard J. Stock |
Back Office Move Has Advisors Up In Arms -- Some Bolt Questions surround what will happen to BAI clients when Merrill moves their accounts from National Financial to Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep.
June 4, 2009
John Churchill |
Merrill Lynch's Dan Sontag Out? Salaried Merrill Brokers? Not so Fast According to a story posted yesterday on Clusterstock.com, a financial blog, Dan Sontag, head of Merrill Lynch's global wealth and investment management unit, is about to be pink-slipped. |
Registered Rep.
December 11, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Merrill Program Seeks to Boost Women and Minority Advisors Executives from Merrill Lynch's global diversity group say the firm has to do a better job in retaining and boosting the performance of women and minority financial advisors. |
Registered Rep.
January 6, 2009 |
Sontag Takes McCann's Job At Merrill More shocking to Merrill Lynch advisors than the sudden departure of their leader is the disappearance of the "MER" logo from their computer screens. |
Registered Rep.
January 22, 2009 |
Thain Departs BofA--An $87,000 Rug? Say It Ain't So, John! Client AUMs Fall By 30 Percent In 2008 John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and the man who engineered the sales of the storied Wall Street firm to Bank of America in September, is leaving the combined firm immediately. |
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.
January 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Merrill Takes it To the Bank One of Merrill Lynch's major initiatives in the coming year will be to continue to attract clients to the firm's expanded banking service, known as Beyond Banking. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
John Churchill |
She's Baaaack Hydie Sumner, a former broker who successfully sued Merrill Lynch for sexual discrimination, has been trying for seven years to reacquire her job at the firm. Now an arbitration panel has ruled that she can return to Merrill. |
