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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.
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.
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. |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
February 1, 2005 |
Blotter Banc One Is No. 1 -- in Fine Size... Fleecing the Flock... Morgan Gets a Slap... |
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. |
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. |
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.
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.
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, 2004
Will Leitch |
SEC Fines Seven More Broker/Dealers The SEC has nailed some additional broker/dealers for failing to disclose payment relationships they had with companies their research departments covered. |
Registered Rep.
June 28, 2005
Kristen French |
Mack as CEO Could be Retail Champion John Mack, the rumored favorite of Morgan Stanley's board for the CEO slot, could be a blessing for the firm's retail brokers if he gets the job. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
SEC Cracks Insider-Trading Ring The SEC has charged 14 individuals -- including employees of UBS and Morgan Stanley -- with participating in two insider-trading schemes that generated at least $15 million in illegal profits. |
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.
May 1, 2008
Bill Singer |
The Smaller They Are, The Harder They Fall For all the day's talk about overhauling Wall Street regulation, committing to one simple step would go a long way: a guarantee of equal justice for all. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Morgan Stanley Wishes It Weren't Like Goldman U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether Morgan misled investors in mortgage derivatives; similar to the charges against Goldman Sachs. |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Firing 950 Brokers Morgan Stanley is firing 950 brokers, according to the various sources. |
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.
December 4, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Data Overload Five brokerage firms were fined $8.25 million for record-keeping violations. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
Archive Items Now? Most reps work under the assumption that all their professional correspondence could be scrutinized, and the SEC now is telling them that assumption is dead on. |
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 20, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Foolish Forecast: Morgan Stanley Gets Ready to Deliver The financial firm will report it most recently quarterly earnings shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
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.
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 22, 2006
Cory Levine |
Silverman Makes a Move to Morgan Morgan Stanley has brought in Andrew Silverman as managing director and head of U.S. electronic trading distribution. He will be responsible for getting the firm's electronic execution services into clients' hands. |
BusinessWeek
July 3, 2006
Emily Thornton |
Mack Attack Buttressed by better earnings, a hungry Morgan Stanley is winning over critics. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006 |
Comings & Goings SEC Commissioner Cynthia Glassman announced her intention to leave the commission... The NASD promoted three executives as part of a larger leadership transition... Stuart Bohart has been named head of alternative investments... etc. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 13, 2007
Cory Levine |
Deliberating on E-discovery and the Changes to the FRCP Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure make unaccounted for electronic documents a massive legal liability for the likes of UBS and Morgan Stanley. |
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.
March 1, 2007 |
Blotter SEC Front Running Probe... NASD Fines Bank of America... |
Registered Rep.
August 2, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Fined $6.1 Million for Fee-Based Brokerage Slip-Ups NASD's investigation showed that from January 2001 through December 2003, Morgan Stanley failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system to review and monitor its fee-based brokerage business. |
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 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.
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.
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.
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley Stumbles In light of Morgan Stanley's dismal earnings release, let's get one thing straight: It could have been much, much worse. |
