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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.   |
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.
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. |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
Executive View: Smart Money Is on Purcell At least one organization handicapping the future of Morgan Stanley CEO Philip Purcell likes his survival chances: intrade.com. |
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.
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.
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. |
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.
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.
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 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.
April 8, 2005
Will Leitch |
Morgan Stanley Combatants Step Up Their Fight as Purcell Claims Victory Even though Morgan Stanley's board has said that it stands behind Philip Purcell as CEO, the group of dissidents calling for Purcell's ouster is digging in for a long, protracted fight for control of the company. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Purcell Gives Up Some Gold Morgan Stanley shareholders who are still reeling from the $52 million exit package given to former president and CEO Philip Purcell will be happy to know he's giving a lot of it away. |
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
July 3, 2006
Emily Thornton |
Mack Attack Buttressed by better earnings, a hungry Morgan Stanley is winning over critics. |
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.
April 1, 2005 |
By the Numbers CEO Pay Score Card: Merrill Lynch, Stanley O'Neal - $32 million... Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson - $29.8 million... etc. |
U.S. Banker
June 2006
Rebecca Sausner |
Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
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.
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.
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. |
U.S. Banker
September 2005 |
Paying the Price for Overpaying Executives The flap over executive compensation.didn't start with Richard Grasso, Philip Purcell or Sandy Weill. But elements of all three men's cases have proved valuable in getting boards to consider whether executive pay is over the top. |
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
November 30, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Morgan Stanley Management Shuffle: Cruz Out, Gorman In Morgan Stanley underwent a major management shakeup yesterday -- effective tomorrow. |
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.
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 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. |
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. |
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.
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.
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
January 18, 2012
Dawn Kawamoto |
Yahoo!'s Yang Out, Board Selection Trumps New CEO Selection Yahoo! is reportedly on the prowl for new board directors, as shareholder activist Third Point LLC is increasing pressure to name its own competing slate. |
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. |
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. |
