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Registered Rep.
April 20, 2006
Kristen French |
New Morgan Hire to Advance Dean Witter Integration James Gorman announced in a memo to employees that Donald Herrema will join the company on May 1 as the head of Private Wealth Management Americas, the U.S. and Latin America division of the old Morgan Stanley institutional group.   |
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. |
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. |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
December 18, 2007
John Churchill |
Ellyn McColgan, Late Of Fido, Joins Morgan Stanley Ellyn McColgan, once seen as a possible successor to Ned Johnson as CEO at Fidelity Investments, has been picked to take the helm of Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 13, 2011
Michael J. Moore |
It's Showtime for Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley failed to live up to expectations last year; CEO James Gorman doesn't want the losing streak to continue. |
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.
December 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Morgan's New Comp Plan Morgan Stanley retail head James Gorman announced the rollout of a new compensation program for 2007 -- one that will increase the firm's spending on compensation by millions of dollars. But the plan will also eliminate any compensation to reps on accounts below $50,000. |
Registered Rep.
May 10, 2006
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Cuts 500 Trainees The company announced in an internal memo that it is firing 500 financial advisor trainees and redesigning its training program. |
Registered Rep.
November 30, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Morgan Stanley Management Shuffle: Cruz Out, Gorman In Morgan Stanley underwent a major management shakeup yesterday -- effective tomorrow. |
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.
November 3, 2006
Kristen French |
Morgan Tinkers with Grid; Wants FAs to Aim High James Gorman announced the rollout of a new compensation program that will greatly increase the firm's spending. But, in an effort to get reps to think big, accounts below $50,000 will no longer generate any compensation for the rep. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2006
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Motley Fool Double Take: Morgan Stanley Bulges Forward Morgan Stanley reported another strong quarter, but has all the easy money in the stock now been made? |
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.
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.
February 9, 2006
Kristen French |
Cruz and Scully Named Morgan Co-Presidents -- With Gorman in the Wings The appointments help clear up an uncertain management picture. The arrival of James Gorman next week as retail chief reporting to Cruz should help even more. Questions still exist, though. |
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.
February 21, 2006
Kristen French |
At Morgan Stanley, the Gorman Era Dawns At Merrill, James Gorman was able to take a top team and make it more effective -- at Morgan Stanley, he inherits a demoralized, decimated sales force that trails its peers in assets under management, productivity and profit margins. |
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.
October 19, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Reels In $15.5B in Assets, 300 FAs Exit, Margins up to 11% Morgan Stanley's global wealth management group finally raised its pre-tax profit margins in the third quarter, which climbed to 11 percent from 9 percent. |
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.
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. |
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.
August 17, 2005
Kristen French |
Gorman to the Rescue? Now that James Gorman has been selected as the future head of Morgan Stanley's retail brokerage, what will he do to turn it around, and can he pull it off? |
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.
August 31, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Beefs Up Alt Investments for Risk Reduction Jerry Pascucci, a former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney executive, is joining UBS Wealth Management Americas on September 7 as head of alternative investments, according to an internal memo obtained by Registered Rep. |
Registered Rep.
June 30, 2005
John Churchill |
Mack Back, Officially John Mack, former head of Morgan Stanley, returns hoping to quiet employee dissent and questions in the media about the firm's direction. |
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.
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.
February 9, 2007
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley to Simplify Financial Planning for FAs Among other initiatives for 2007, Morgan Stanley is planning to upgrade its financial-planning offering for retail advisors -- and apparently it's overdue. |
Registered Rep.
October 20, 2010
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Q3 Earnings Dive 67%, Wealth Management Is Most Profitable Division Morgan Stanley Smith Barney dunked into the red in the third quarter, with earnings falling 67 percent to 5 cents a share, due to a sharp decline in the firm's institutional securities business. |
Registered Rep.
September 22, 2005
John Churchill |
Morgan Stanley's Retail Unit Posts Mixed Third Quarter The company's retail brokerage recorded pretax tax profits of $30 million for the third quarter, a healthy 36% gain over last year, despite a continued exodus of advisors and large legal and regulatory costs. But client assets fell versus the prior quarter, an ominous sign. |
U.S. Banker
October 2009
Joseph Rosta |
#2 Cece Sutton After Morgan Stanley appointed Cece Sutton president of the new retail banking group, bank deposits grew to $46.8B by the end of the first quarter of 2009. |
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.
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.
July 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Apres Purcell--Le Spinoff? Now that Morgan Stanley's CEO has given up, the future of the old Dean Witter organization is in question. Morgan Stanley remains under pressure to improve profitability and its stock price. |
Registered Rep.
January 13, 2009
David Geracioti |
Citi, Morgan Stanley Agree To Form Joint Venture; Reps Will Receive Retention Bonus--Gorman Says: "We're Not Stupid" The combined retail brokerage units will become the largest financial services firm in the world and be a "force to be reckoned with." The combined entity will have more than 20,000 Financial advisors and an estimated $1.7 trillion in client assets. |
Registered Rep.
January 10, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley To Spin Off Prop Trading by 2012 The division's employees will acquire certain assets from Morgan Stanley and set up an independent advisory at the end of 2012. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 22, 2006
Kristen French |
Morgan Sees Weak Retail First Quarter Followed by Brighter Future Morgan Stanley reported bad news on first quarter retail earnings today. Both pre-tax income and margins declined steeply for its brokerage business, but in a conference call this morning chief financial officer David Sidwell expressed optimism about the future of the business unit. |
Registered Rep.
December 19, 2007
John Churchill |
Morgan Stanley's Earnings Disaster: This Could Leave A Mark Analysts think last years errors could cost Morgan Stanley dearly down the road in lost employees and clients. |
Registered Rep.
September 7, 2005
Kristen French |
Post-Purcell Shuffle Claims Marsh, More Morgan Directors to Follow? The changing of the guard at Morgan Stanley continues as leadership loyal to departed CEO Philip Purcell heads for the exits. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Morgan's Training Makeover Morgan Stanley is in the midst of a major redesign of its rookie training program, the latest in a string of moves by retail head James Gorman to revamp the brokerage operation and make it more profitable. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Gorman to the Rescue? Morgan Stanley brokers should expect a revolution when James Gorman takes the helm of the retail unit. |
U.S. Banker
June 2005 |
By Day, Man of Steel. At Night? Sweating Bullets. Philip Purcell's public assault by the Group of Eight, former Morgan execs who also wield shareholder clout, is about more than just the investment bank. It's about power, pride and the price of bad leadership. |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
February 19, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Merrill Hires Executive from MSSB A senior executive at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has jumped ship for Merrill Lynch. Jimmy Tighe, former New York City regional director for Morgan has been hired by Merrill as managing director and business & resource integration executive at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. |
