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Registered Rep.
December 18, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Supreme Court Favors Arbitration in Brokerage Cases The Supreme Court has reaffirmed its stance that the arbitration forum is the proper venue for deciding brokerage cases.   |
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.
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Women Fired Up Discrimination lawsuits against Morgan Stanley could start rolling in from brokers laid off in August, say labor lawyers. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2011
Evan Niu |
MBIA Shares Popped Then Gave It Back: What You Need to Know Shares of bond insurer MBIA popped this morning by 11%, but have given it all back and are sitting slightly in the red as of this writing, after it settled an ongoing suit with Morgan Stanley. |
Registered Rep.
March 5, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Florida to Out-of-State Lawyers: Just Kidding Lawyers from other states are currently not prohibited from dealing with arbitration disputes in Florida, as was originally feared by many attorneys, and should be able to resume handling cases without having a Florida-based lawyer involved. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Riding High It was a fine year for brokerage firms -- especially their stocks. No one came up bigger than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in terms of percentage gains. |
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.
May 9, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
Morgan Stanley to pay $7.96 Million for Best Execution Fraud The SEC announced that Morgan Stanley will pay penalties to settle the charges against the firm for failing to provide best execution to clients. |
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. |
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.
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. |
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.
June 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Brokerage Chiefs in Spitzer's Sights When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the $1.4 billion settlement of the securities conflict of interest case in April, his office warned that it was "the beginning, not the end." Wirehouses are finding out, in a big way, that he wasn't kidding. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2007 |
Enough Is Not Enough A group of Morgan Stanley reps involved in a race-discrimination suit say a proposed $16-million settlement is just not enough. |
Registered Rep.
October 13, 2008 |
Morgan Stanley Sweetens Deal For Mitsubishi, Stock Soars That development, combined with news the U.S. Fed plans to follow England's lead and invest directly in its failing banks, sent financial services stocks shooting higher in trading Monday. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Star Wars Recruiting competition between the top brokerage firms is fiercer than ever, and Morgan Stanley is currently wielding one of the most powerful deals on Wall Street. |
The Motley Fool
March 22, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Morgan Stanley Trades Up The bottom line for investors: in an environment where industrywide valuations are creeping higher, there are better bank ideas out there. |
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.
June 1, 2004
John Churchill |
Questions for the Defense 2004 has been a good year for investors thus far, but you'd hardly know it to look at the number of arbitration filings. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Bonus Bait Morgan Stanley is planning to offer bonuses to brokers who expand their production in 2006. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 18, 2003 |
Morgan Stanley Buys Lend Lease's U.S Real Estate Assets After weeks of speculation, Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy most of Lend Lease's U.S real estate investment arm. The purchase will bring Morgan Stanley's real estate assets to $30 billion once the deal is finalized. |
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.
February 4, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Complexing Issue: Morgan Stanley Creating Bunches of Branches Morgan Stanley is requiring that an increasing number of its branch office managers begin producing. The move is an outgrowth of its office "complexing" strategy, which groups together multiple branches under a single manager. |
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.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Gimme Back My Ad! Morgan Stanley has directed key media outlets to contact its ad agency if they write "objectionable" stories about the company, and if they can't get through in time, to yank its ads for at least 48 hours. |
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.
March 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Perky Purcell Gets Money for Life Morgan Stanley's latest proxy statement revealed that in addition to the $44 million bonus former CEO Phillip Purcell received as part of his exit package, he will continue to get other benefits for the rest of his life. |
Registered Rep.
November 10, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Waves Baby Carrot at Sales Assistants The brokerage announced plans to bump up the 2006 raise pool to 3.5 percent, and will offer an additional 5 percent to some underpaid SAs, starting in December. |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
Morgan Keegan's Woes May Not Be Over Morgan Keegan has aggressively fought funds-related arbitration cases and will continue to do so. |
Registered Rep.
August 30, 2005
John Churchill |
Retaining Those Pesky Emails Morgan Stanley is in for what could be a $10 million fine from the SEC for failing to retain emails, according to a report. |
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. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2008
Kristen French |
Morgan Sells Spanish Retail Brokerage Arm Morgan Stanley announced plans this week to sell its Spanish brokerage- and asset- management business to La Caixa, a Spanish financial-services firm, for $885 million. |
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Firing 950 Brokers Morgan Stanley is firing 950 brokers, according to the various sources. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2013
Alan J. Foxman |
Debunking Arbitration Rules Our legal expert discusses whether brokerage firms have to report arbitration actions against them. |
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.
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
March 1, 2007
Parke M. Chapman |
Global Investment Heavyweight Few U.S.-based investment managers have penetrated the Asian property markets as decisively as Morgan Stanley Real Estate. Leading the charge of the Asian campaign is managing director Sonny Kalsi. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Morgan Stanley Still Shining The brokerage house is riding high, with no signs of a slowdown. In less than two years, John Mack has turned Morgan from a chronic underperformer to the toast of Wall Street. |
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? |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2005
Humberto Sanchez |
The Muni Market Morgan Stanley pays for violating the disclosure rule in failing to disclose to purchasers of municipal bonds that the bonds could be called prior to their maturity dates. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Morgan Stanley's Mighty Swing The investment bank knocks results out of the park. Can it last? Investors, take note. |
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.
November 12, 2003 |
Morgan Stanley Launches Conflict-of-Interest Probe Morgan Stanley has announced it is conducting an in-house conflict-of-interest probe. |
The Motley Fool
April 1, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Et Tu, Morgan Stanley? It's a palace revolt at Morgan Stanley. But we should probably not feel too sorry for CEO Philip Purcell, who made about $22 million last year. If he loses, he will not suffer the fate of Caesar but will have a very big payday instead. |
