Morgan Stanley

Constantinos Maniatis exercised discretion in seven customer accounts despite the firm no longer allowing discretionary trading, the regulator said.

Axos Financial, which has $14.4 billion across business lines, will gain $23 billion in new assets from 200 RIAs.

Financial Planning continues its four-part analysis of core compensation components at wirehouse, regional and national BDs.

Despite record growth in wealth management, an otherwise rosy earnings report was marred by $911 million loss related to Archegos Capital.

The largest brokerages typically make comp changes that are ‘evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.’

The long-simmering dispute spotlights the sometimes fraught nature of advisor career moves.

“When I left, I told Morgan Stanley [Ron] was the best person I've ever worked for in my career,” says advisor Jason Fertitta, who is hiring his old boss.

The bank joined dozens of other companies in announcing that they would suspend and review their political donations following the Capitol riot.

Self-directed investors have opened more new accounts at the firm in 2021 than in the third and fourth quarters combined.

The wirehouse picked up a 43-year veteran from its rival.

The dispute highlights the complicated nature of non-solicitation carve-outs when advisors switch firms.

Much of the industry’s skepticism centers on the cryptocurrency’s unpredictable price swings and the lack of things it can buy since its creation.

The bank is winding down the roughly $40 billion international segment of its wealth management business.

“This looks like pockets of frothiness, some irrationality undoubtedly, some nonsense undoubtedly," said BlackRock Vice Chairman Philipp Hildebrand.

The new recruits build on the 43 advisors Janney added last year.

Collectively, the brokers generated $167 million in annual production and oversaw $37 billion in combined client assets.

Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman leaped past JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon as the best-paid CEO of a major U.S. bank.

Eaton Vance and E-Trade deals expected to boost the firm’s performance.

The IBD completed a stellar recruiting year by adding a team led by a 30-year veteran advisor.

In the first wave of cases under the regulator’s self-reporting initiative, it garnered more than $2.7 million in payments of restitution plus interest.