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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.
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.
June 13, 2005
Kristen French |
With Purcell to Resign, Who's Up? After months of fighting for Morgan Stanley CEO Philip Purcell's resignation, the Group of Eight dissident shareholders finally got what they wanted: Purcell announced that he was stepping down once a successor could be named. |
BusinessWeek
July 3, 2006
Emily Thornton |
Mack Attack Buttressed by better earnings, a hungry Morgan Stanley is winning over critics. |
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, 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.
May 10, 2005
Kristen French |
Purcell Takes Stage, Tries to Rally Support Morgan Stanley's embattled CEO Philip Purcell tried to shore up shareholder support and squelch the almost daily flood of media speculation over the firm's future. But were shareholders convinced? |
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.
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
March 21, 2005
Emily Thornton |
Phil Purcell's Credibility Crisis Investors want Morgan Stanley's chief to beef up weak businesses -- or dump them. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 11, 2005
Emily Thornton |
Purcell: Only Making It Worse Morgan Stanley CEO Philip J. Purcell's moves may be about self-protection, not performance. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
A Sporting Chance Morgan's shareholders are testy now, and they are looking for someone to blame for the company's ills. Having taken a 46% raise in a year in which his company's stock dropped 8.2 percent, chairman and CEO Philip Purcell makes an easy target. |
Registered Rep.
August 2, 2005
Kristen French |
Mack to Morgan Brokers: `Don't Kiss My Ass' For Morgan Stanley brokers, the kind of flattery that Philip Purcell seemed to demand during his tenure isn't going to work on John Mack. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Glenn Curtis |
The Purcell Discount Hovering at a recent $51.73 --- down from its all-time highs of $110 a share --- are Morgan Stanley common shares a buy? |
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.
July 11, 2005
John Churchill |
More Changes at Morgan Stanley The resignation of Morgan Stanley's co-president Stephen Crawford and the disclosure of his pay package cause public comment on the unusual nature of events and anger among employees and shareholders alike. Chairman John Mack works to retain top people. |
Registered Rep.
December 21, 2005
Kristen French |
For Morgan Retail, Fourth Quarter a Mixed Bag; More Purcell Directors Resign Despite a number of changes made to improve corporate governance at Morgan Stanley early this year, the board has come in for plenty of heat. The firm continues to lose talent and is paying out the nose to bring on new top producers. |
Registered Rep.
September 12, 2005
Kristen French |
More Adieus From Morgan Stanley Directors As expected, Morgan Stanley board members from the Philip Purcell era continue to decamp, with two more directors out. With these resignations, the board now has 11 directors. |
U.S. Banker
June 2005
Karen Krebsbach |
Purcell's (Very Public) Predicament The bruising power struggle at Morgan Stanley is taking its toll, as the company's stock price stalls and talent walks. The escalating conflict is weakening the No. 2 investment bank, making it ripe for a takeover. |
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 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.
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.
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2005
Tom Taulli |
It's Good to Be Phil Purcell Morgan Stanley rewards questionable performance with a very rich farewell. |
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. |
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.
March 30, 2005
Will Leitch |
More Turmoil at Morgan Stanley In a shake-up that shocked even those who said they had seen such an explosion coming, the beleaguered Morgan Stanley CEO Philip Purcell watched two of his top executives resign in protest of his leadership on Tuesday. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
High Flying CEOs A research report takes issue with Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack's liberal use of the firm's flying fleet. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Morgan, Minus Purcell Amid turmoil, Morgan Stanley's CEO bails out. Morgan indicated that its earnings will fall anywhere from 15% to 20% lower than last year's, to between $0.88 cents and $0.94 cents a share. |
Registered Rep.
May 17, 2005
Kristen French |
Throwing Its Weight Around: Morgan Stanley Pulls Ads From Media That Cover Its Woes Is Morgan Stanley, the subject of almost daily news reports since March, trying to silence its critics? |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2006
Kristen French |
Morgan, BlackRock Talks Reportedly Off Alleged takeover talks between Morgan Stanley and institutional money manager BlackRock have reportedly been called off due to a runup in BlackRock's stock price. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Morgan Moves On In the wake of a high-profile battle at the top, Morgan Stanley tries to get back to the business of business. But is the board up to snuff and concerned with protecting regular shareholders? |
Registered Rep.
April 6, 2005
Will Leitch |
In Brouhaha, Board Backs Purcell at Morgan Stanley To some, Purcell's stacking of the board---many say this is the only thing keeping him at the head of the ship---is one example of his self-interested management style. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Discover Spinoff: Denied? The Discover spinoff sounded good a few months ago. Things have changed. With many recent defections of Morgan's rainmakers, uncertainty about the company's leadership and takeover speculation in the stock, investors would be wise to wait for a bit more clarity. |
BusinessWeek
April 18, 2005
Emily Thornton |
Can Phil Purcell Change His Spots? Morgan Stanley's CEO needs to be more hands-on. You might think Purcell would make an effort to change his spots after all the recent commotion about him and his firm. But you'd probably be wrong. |
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. |
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 26, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Bove Smites Morgan Stanley's Strategy, But Bullish On Brokerage Unit Morgan Stanley's recent move to increase trading risk and add traders a la Goldman Sachs is a just another bad strategy in a long line of lousy executions by management. |
