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Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Next Year's Model If the one-stop shop is out, what new formula will take its place? In many ways, the Citi/Legg Mason swap looks like an ideal prototype. The thing is, a swap like that is not likely to be repeated.   |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Got Conflicts? A new business model seems to be gaining popularity: retail brokerages spinning off their asset-management businesses but retaining a minority stake. |
Registered Rep.
February 15, 2006
Kevin Burke |
What the BlackRock/Merrill Deal Means to Advisors The deal marks the biggest asset-management merger in history and has far-reaching implications for rank-and-file reps as well as the financial-services industry at large. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Legg Mason Falls Short The money manager Legg Mason posts strong earnings, but it misses high expectations. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2003 |
Morgan Stanley Launches Conflict-of-Interest Probe Morgan Stanley has announced it is conducting an in-house conflict-of-interest probe. |
Registered Rep.
April 8, 2004
Joan Warner |
Trouble In The House That Purcell Built? After suffering through a cruel bear market, Morgan Stanley has come under regulatory scrutiny and legal fire for practices in several key businesses in the past two years, including mutual fund sales. |
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.
June 27, 2005
Kristen French |
Citi/Legg Deal Strikes Blow at the Heart of Financial Supermarket Concept The recently announced asset swap between Citigroup and Legg Mason could be a sign that the financial supermarket of yore is on its way out, to wit: the separation of asset management and distribution. |
Registered Rep.
October 2, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Hands Over Mutual Fund Reins to BlackRock BlackRock, the nation's third-largest bond fund manager, said it has completed its takeover of the asset-management arm of Merrill Lynch; the union is one of the world's largest asset managers. |
Registered Rep.
October 29, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Opposes Fine Following the New York Attorney General's investigation of Merrill Lynch's research practices, the firm was fined $100 million. The attorney general's office is in the midst of an ongoing investigation of other firms, including Morgan Stanley, which is fighting back. |
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.
January 31, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Goes to School for a New Fund Name Beginning in May, the company said its U.S. retail products will be offered under the Princeton Portfolio Research & Management brand, affecting about $223 billion in mutual funds and separately managed accounts. |
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2011
Kristen French |
Merrill Earnings Strongest Since Bank of America Takeover Bank of America's Global Wealth and Investment Management division, which includes Merrill Lynch, reported its highest earnings since Bank of America's takeover of Merrill in late 2008, as asset management and brokerage fees rose. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Will Morgan Stanley Come Back? Investors who thought that the return of John Mack to Morgan Stanley would mean instant and glorious change might be feeling a bit disappointed about now. |
Wall Street & Technology
May 21, 2007
Greg MacSweeney |
20 Year Wall Street Data Veteran Roseann Palmieri Joins Merrill Lynch Palmieri's career -- including 10 years at Morgan Stanley, six years at Deutsche Bank and, most recently, four years at Bank of America Securities -- has touched almost every part of the data management business. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
Matt Barthel |
The Ten to Watch 2005: Learning to Live With the New Normal Lately, there is a palpable sense of acceptance in the brokerage industry that the new regulatory climate is likely to be a permanent one. Heralds of the new order: John Mack... Chris Cox... etc. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Who Will be Number One Among the Wirehouses? A good old-fashioned Wall Street fight for retail assets -- and a fierce tussle over which firm can call itself the Number One retail wealth management firm on Wall Street -- is brewing. |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
Emily Thornton |
Mutual Funds: The Cost Of Full Disclosure With Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson pushing for new rules aimed at providing greater safeguards for mutual-fund investors, brokerages worry that implementing them will cost billions of dollars. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Merrill Lynch Settlement: Good for Merrill, Not for Investors Many say the Merrill settlement does not resolve investors' fundamental concern: the inherent conflict produced by analysts' multiple dual role of serving investors and Merrill's investment banking business. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Chris O'Leary |
Break a Legg With Mason approaching retirement age (he is 68 and has not talked about retiring), and with the company frustrated in its efforts to find suitable acquisitions to keep growing, Legg has become an oft-rumored takeover target. |
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.
February 13, 2006
Kristen French |
Merrill, BlackRock Deal Near Merrill Lynch is close to doing what Morgan Stanley could not: acquire a large stake in BlackRock, the stellar bond funds house, in a deal that would create a $1 trillion money manager. |
The Motley Fool
March 22, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Worst to First at Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack has quickly put Morgan Stanley back on the pedestal of highly respected Wall Street firms. How long it stays there is anyone's guess, but now may not be the time for investors to bet against it. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Gene G. Marcial |
Morgan Stanley Is Going For A Song Morgan Stanley's stock is still at a big discount to its peers -- trading below historic levels based on price-earnings, price-to-book, and price-to-sales ratios. |
The Motley Fool
June 27, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Legg Mason's Big Swap With two transactions last week, the firm transformed itself into a pure-play money manager. For stockholders, it probably makes sense to wait before jumping into Legg Mason stock. |
Registered Rep.
January 26, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Awards O'Neal $20.6 Million in Stock Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal was once again among the highest paid Wall Street executives in 2005. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
February 27, 2006
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Money Managers On The Block Banks and brokerages are selling, and plenty of deep-pocketed bidders await. |
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.
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? |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Maybe a Bull Case for Merrill Lynch This large broker-dealer is doing well, but further operating improvements could make it a bargain for investors. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
So They've Got That Going for Them...Which Is Nice For all the problems it's been having in the last several months, Morgan Stanley can hang its hat on this good news: It is now the largest securities firm in the country. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2004
Roger Nusbaum |
The House of Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley has had its fair share of wrongdoing, but despite its warts, the brokerage firm should continue to thrive. |
Registered Rep.
September 18, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Sun Life Attracts Suitors in Effort to Unload MFS MFS Investment Management, long rumored to be on the auction block due to lagging profit margins, middling performance and increasing regulatory demands, could be mere days away from a blockbuster merger with another large asset-management firm. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2006
Stephen Ellis |
A Value Opportunity at a Value Manager With prices and expectations lowered, Legg Mason now has a low bar to beat. Mr. Market has given us a gift in the form of a cheap, top-quality asset manager. |
Registered Rep.
July 20, 2005
John Churchill |
Wall Street's Second-Quarter Results: It Could Have Been Worse The big financial services players have released their second-quarter earnings, and most private client divisions didn't do as badly as analysts were expecting -- thanks, in part, to an improving equity market. Charles Schwab... Merrill Lynch... etc. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
Mutual Fund Scandals: Once Again, Individual Investors Are the Losers Is the mutual fund industry going to become mired in the kind of scandal that has afflicted so many public companies over the past few years? |
Registered Rep.
September 17, 2008
Geracioti & Touryalai |
Morgan And Wachovia? The need for the kind of capital offered by customer deposits apparently is driving securities firms into the arms of banks. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 23, 2006
Alex Dumortier |
Merrill Brings Home the Bacon The firm's solid third-quarter performance comes as no surprise to investors. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Morgan Stanley Re-Discovers Itself The fully recovered financial-services firm no longer needs Discover. Investors, both firms will be worth keeping an eye on as key players in their respective industries. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Hired and Fired Up The biggest brokerage businesses are showing that even in a modest market upswing they now have in place a strategy for delivering stronger and steadier sales and earnings growth. |
Registered Rep.
February 16, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: LaMothe Takes Swipe at BofA, Does 180 on Value of Bank-Brokerage Tie Ups Lyle LaMothe, former head of retail brokerage Merrill Lynch, claims that Merrill advisors are leaving the firm because they are being pushed to sell the whole bank instead of focus on wealth management and what's best for their clients. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2006
Kristen French |
Morgan and BlackRock: Another Asset Swap? Rumors swirled late Friday and Monday that Morgan Stanley, the struggling Wall Street powerbroker, was looking to takeover BlackRock, the successful institutional money manager. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Bob Veres |
The Big Regulatory Fix If the same few companies are behind virtually every major financial scandal and meltdown, why are the regulators talking about tightening up on all financial advisors? |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Banking: It'll Take More Than Free Toasters With the mortgage boom over, bank profits could be less than half of last year's. If M&A activity doesn't pick up, Wall Street may be in for a tough slog |
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.
March 15, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Fined $2.5 Million Over Lax Email Oversight The SEC slapped the nation's largest brokerage with a $2.5 million fine and a cease-and-desist order for a "systemic" mishandling of email records related to its brokerage business. |
