Articles tagged "Morgan Stanley"
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James Gorman pivoted to 'wealth management' to save Morgan Stanley after the 2008 financial crisis, but now feds are looking into the unit's rapid growth to $6T in AUA, amid allegations of lax oversight and money laundering
Gorman bailed on the firm, Jan. 1, leaving successor Ted Pick to pick up the pieces; Wall Street wasted no time dumping the stock after a WSJ report that a Federal Reserve probe had metasticized to other agencies
April 12, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Low profile RIAs keep draining market share from non-RIA national brands -- Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, UBS -- but big names still have a marketing edge, new Cerulli report says
The largest Cerulli study sub-group, 39% of individuals, want 'large national' brands -- even with RIAs set to gain four percentage points of market share on wirehouses by 2027
April 11, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Charles 'Chuck Schwab' called James Gorman to protest a two-broker poach, kicking off a hydra-headed legal battle, costing Morgan Stanley millions, so far
The Schwab founder and chairman invoked Charles Schwab Corp.'s zero-tolerance policy against Wall Street -- or RIA -- poaching of talent and AUM from Schwab branches.
March 9, 2023 at 1:23 AM
Blooom shutters its robo 401(k) RIA out of the blue, leaving all 29,000 clients, with $5.6 billion in assets, twisting in the wind and red flags flying
The Overland Park, Kan.-based firm's staff bolted for Morgan Stanley, including its CEO, but experts say regulators may not be far behind.
December 1, 2022 at 8:25 PM
J. P. Morgan buys OpenInvest, after missing out on Parametric, which Morgan Stanley nabbed; it's more about ESG, less about direct indexing, firm says
The New York City money manager finally has a foothold in the ESG game, helping RIAs actively manage indexes, but it's footprint, starting out, is small.
June 29, 2021 at 6:29 PM
Axos Financial gets E*Trade RIA custody unit at $220-million discount from discount broker's 2018 price -- all but assuring it'll be accretive by 2023, its maverick CEO says
The Las Vegas banking company is paying just $55 million cash for $23 billion in RIA/TAMP assets and 200 relationships from the old Trust Company of America unit with ex-McKinsey Greg Garrabants leading the unlikely charge
April 27, 2021 at 11:04 PM
Despite tepid net flows in 2020, Aperio finds its white knight; BlackRock makes a deal to compete with buyers of Parametric, Motif and Folio
The Sausalito, Calif., direct indexing firm's owner watched as competitors got snapped up by Morgan Stanley, Schwab and Goldman Sachs but ultimately scored a $1-billion offer from the giant's petty cash.
November 26, 2020 at 1:42 AM
Morgan Stanley's Eaton Vance deal yields a golden nugget-- Parametric--and a means to own the direct-indexing super trend -- at a bargain $7 billion
The New York wirehouse bought $507 billion of AUM, but Seattle-based subsidiary Parametric, which has no equal in its category, is the key to the deal.
October 13, 2020 at 3:00 AM
Schwab's merger with TD Ameritrade was sterling until the Covid-19 pandemic and financial collapse took some of the shine off the deal
Charles Schwab & Co.'s decision to buy TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. in Nov. 2019 looked like a lock, but 'Schwabitrade' has been rocked by wholesale branch closings, plummeting share prices and emergency rate cuts to near zero.
April 14, 2020 at 11:13 PM
COVID-19 may quickly expose that McKinsey's 2030 vision report ill-advisedly reprises Mark Hurley's 1999 logic about classic RIAs as easy marks for 'enterprises'
The New York-based consultant sees bigger, more digital companies (Wall Street 2.0 in other words) dominating -- a de facto logical black hole that desk-bound consultants gravitate to.
April 7, 2020 at 8:01 PM
E*Trade, TD Ameritrade and Legg Mason deals look dicier, after share crashes crush market caps of merging firms
Schwab and Morgan Stanley are using their stock as currency; Franklin Resources is buying Legg Mason, mostly with hard cash
March 9, 2020 at 11:22 PM
James Gorman delivers chilling remarks to E*Trade RIAs after doing no-money-down deal for the zero-commission discount broker
The Morgan Stanley CEO is arbitraging his puffed-up shares for downtrodden E*trade stock and admits old Trust Company of America custody unit is an afterthought in bigger game
February 21, 2020 at 3:45 AM
Broker-dealers' new power tactic -- threatening to quit states altogether -- to thwart local fiduciary rules for advisors sure looks like blatant misuse of power
SIFMA, FSI and Morgan Stanley made overt threats to Nevada and New Jersey and CFP Board that have more than a whiff of conspiracy to restrain trade
June 18, 2019 at 10:58 PM
Shirl Penney and Brian Hamburger gang-tackle largest breakaway of 2019 as Jason Fertitta, Team Americana bolt Morgan Stanley to form Schwab RIA
The Dynasty CEO and MarketCounsel CEO fended off the logistical and legal furies for small team with $6 billion in AUM and average accounts of $50 million
April 29, 2019 at 5:11 PM
Lisbeth Cherrington's long, strange career, fraught with regulatory actions, takes another bizarre turn over her latest FINRA sanction--lying about her age
Caught red-handed falsifying official records, the super-producer, who alleged homophobia and defamation at Morgan Stanley, is hit with $15,000 fine and 60-day suspension
