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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, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Plans More Cost-cutting in Retail Brokerage; Integration on Target, Net Asset Flows Up Morgan Stanley financial advisors should expect more cost-cutting in the global wealth management division in coming quarters. |
Registered Rep.
October 22, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
MSSB Plans to Double Size of U.S. Division For Ultra Wealthy Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management will exclusively serve clients with a minimum of $20 million in assets. |
Registered Rep.
July 21, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Assets, Advisors Decline at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Q2 Morgan Stanley is making continued progress on its integration with Smith Barney, but declines in assets and headcount suggest it may be feeling the pain of client and advisor departures. |
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? |
Registered Rep.
October 20, 2010
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Q3 Earnings Dive 67%, Wealth Management Is Most Profitable Division Morgan Stanley Smith Barney dunked into the red in the third quarter, with earnings falling 67 percent to 5 cents a share, due to a sharp decline in the firm's institutional securities business. |
Registered Rep.
January 14, 2011
Kristen French |
Some MSSB Advisors Upset by Johnston's Departure Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman announced Thursday that Greg Fleming, head of the firm's asset management business, will replace Charles Johnston as head of wealth management. |
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.
October 19, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Reels In $15.5B in Assets, 300 FAs Exit, Margins up to 11% Morgan Stanley's global wealth management group finally raised its pre-tax profit margins in the third quarter, which climbed to 11 percent from 9 percent. |
Registered Rep.
January 20, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Says Integration On Track, Wealth Managment Revenues Up 7% Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman and CFO Ruth Porat said they are pleased with the progress of integration in the wealth management division, a joint venture with Citigroup in its spun-off Smith Barney division, as well as its performance. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's $1 Trillion Target Morgan Stanley Smith Barney focuses on growing its Consulting Group division, where it aims to double the assets in the managed account group to more than $1 trillion within the next five years. |
Registered Rep.
March 9, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Cutting 200-300 FAs And Trainees The firm's wealth management division, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, should end the quarter with about 17,800 advisors, still the largest brokerage force in the U.S. by headcount. |
Registered Rep.
October 21, 2009
Kristen French |
Morgan Posts First Profit In Year The company' results were boosted by higher underwriting fees and trading revenue, as well as the firm's acquisition of Smith Barney. |
Registered Rep.
April 21, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Morgan Stanley Profits Rise, Advisor Count Flat Morgan Stanley on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected revenues and profits in the first quarter, lifted by its acquisition last spring of Smith Barney and by higher fixed income. |
Registered Rep.
April 21, 2011
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Assets Up, Headcount and Margins Down Morgan's other two divisions -- institutional securities and asset management -- recorded declines in income and revenues. |
Registered Rep.
August 29, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Merrill, MSSB Invest in New Technology Wirehouse firms continue to upgrade their advisor workstation technology following the recent consolidation among firms. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
July 9, 2009
Churchill & French |
Smith Barney Loses Top Executive, CFO Program To Be Rebranded After just 7 months on the job, Chris di Bonaventura, head of the Citi Family Office group, handed in his resignation. |
Registered Rep.
January 12, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Citi Grabs a Lifeline, Morgan Stages a Coup Despite a $45 billion capital injection from the government in 2008, Citi is in dire enough need of capital that it is planning to spin off its retail brokerage operation, Smith Barney, according to reports, in a joint venture with cross-town rival Morgan Stanley |
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.
January 20, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Wealth Management Has Strong Fourth Quarter At Morgan, BofA Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney nor Bank of America ended 2009 with a bang in the earnings department. But their wealth management units were pockets of strength. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's King Breaks Away, Taps Dynasty for Help A Morgan Stanley Smith Barney team led by Larry King in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. left the wirehouse and started an independent registered investment advisor, King Wealth Management Group. |
U.S. Banker
October 2009
Joseph Rosta |
#2 Cece Sutton After Morgan Stanley appointed Cece Sutton president of the new retail banking group, bank deposits grew to $46.8B by the end of the first quarter of 2009. |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2011 |
Who's News Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hired three advisors from UBS Financial Services... Bank of America Merrill Lynch hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisors Raymond Stacy and Christopher Pieper... Wells Fargo Advisors hired advisor Zoran Vaz... |
Registered Rep.
October 18, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
At Citi, Profits Are Down; Smith Barney Wins Five Morgan FAs With Nearly $600m AUM; ML Loses Two Citigroups' third-quarter profits are down 57%... over at its Smith Barney unit, Charlie Johnston's team had a pretty good recruiting week... etc. |
Registered Rep.
September 26, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Bigger Is Better There's a perception that there is less innovation in the wirehouses than the independent channel. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Happy Holidays! You're Fired. The ax will fall at year's end for some 700 of 13,500 Morgan Stanley brokers. Some branches will be closed entirely. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2009 |
Citi: What Sandy Built, Pandit Will Dismantle? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Citigroup has put Smith Barney up for sale -- or a joint venture. |
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. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2011 |
Michael McGrath In 2009, I became head of Alternative Investments for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Its joint venture with Smith Barney that same year gave me the opportunity to expand my horizons. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2012
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Starts Merging Client Accounts The big switch has begun. Morgan Stanley recently brought the first 10% of Smith Barney customer accounts over from their digital homes on Citigroup information systems. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Sharpens Its Focus With the two-year anniversary of the creation of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the industry's largest brokerage business continues to take shape. |
Registered Rep.
November 10, 2010
Diana Britton |
Outlook 2011: Multi-Year Bull Market Upon Us We are in a multi-year bull market for equities, especially emerging market equities, said panelists at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's 2011 outlook event Wednesday. |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Hates Its Profitable Assets With Smith Barney divested, shareholders may wonder where profits will come from. |
Registered Rep.
October 27, 2011
Kristen French |
Momentum Building for Social Media Adoption in Financial Services Financial firms that are using social media are not talking about their products or engaging their customer base. |
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.
February 23, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Morgan, Smith Barney Reps Get Retention Awards, NOT Bonuses Top producers at both firms stand to receive as much as 105 percent of trailing twelve month production to stay with the joint firm. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2011 |
Who's News Wells Fargo Advisors hired a father-son advisor team in Oak Brook, Ill., Wells Fargo has also hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisor Joseph Jaworski in Melville, N.Y., and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hired Frank Roccisano from UBS. |
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Losing Advisors, Client Assets But while Smith Barney is losing reps, it also appears to be recruiting heavily. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2012 |
Merrill Hires Lee Miller, Andrew Pleat and Mark Kean from UBS Morgan Stanley nabbed nine new advisors... Leaving Morgan Stanley, Jeff Smith joins Janney Montgomery Scott... Stifel Nicolaus has opened a new private client office in Madison, Ct... |
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. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2009
Carri Degenhardt-Burke |
Don't Burn Bridges, They Lead to the Future In this environment of consolidation and constant change, it pays to get to know the guy on the other side of your street |
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2005
Kristen French |
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004 |
Comings & Goings Sam Vetas, one of Morgan Stanley's top producers has moved... Joe Biondo Sr. recently went independent from Smith Barney... Former Registered Rep. columnist Harry Pappas has switched firms... etc. |
Registered Rep.
January 13, 2009
David Geracioti |
Citi, Morgan Stanley Agree To Form Joint Venture; Reps Will Receive Retention Bonus--Gorman Says: "We're Not Stupid" The combined retail brokerage units will become the largest financial services firm in the world and be a "force to be reckoned with." The combined entity will have more than 20,000 Financial advisors and an estimated $1.7 trillion in client assets. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2010
Lee Conrad |
Merrill and Morgan Slug It Out With integration behind it, just how does the new Merrill fare against its closest competitor, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney? |
On Wall Street
March 1, 2010 |
Who's News Merrill Lynch hires father-and-son team... Morgan Stanley recruits Carlos Van Maanen and Carlos Stolk... Emerson Knowles and Joseph Spicer leave Morgan STanley to join Merrill Lynch... RBC Wealth Management hires John Menefee and Tom Meagher... etc. |
Registered Rep.
December 15, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
A New Role for Top MSSB FAs: Bloggers Mike Ross, a portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney who oversees $500 million with a partner, now has a new role: wirehouse blogger. |
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. |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
Expect a New Wave of Advisor Movement Even with rumblings that Wall Street firms could brace for cost cuts and layoffs this summer, competition for top wealth management talent is poised to remain strong. |
