Morgan Stanley

The wirehouse is accused of not doing enough to prevent employees of its Smith Barney unit from making unauthorized transfers.

A former wealth manager contends she was unfairly denied disability payments after fibromyalgia and other health complaints forced her to stop working in 2022.

Avoiding fund distributions or using offsetting losses in any month can deliver big savings on payments to Uncle Sam at the end of the year, experts say.

Jed Finn says the firm's wealth unit could easily meet its operating margin goals if it simply stopped spending money to support advisors. But it's not about to do that.

Nicholas Takahashi and his team are accused of deliberately trying to poach the clients of a former colleague managing hundreds of millions in assets and producing more than $1 million a year in revenue.

A new partnership with the tech firm Carta will position Morgan Stanley at Work to manage stock-compensation plans for more than 2,000 private companies that are moving toward IPOs.

A judge's opinion is likely to be cited in scores of arbitration cases in which ex-advisors say they are still owed money from big wealth management firms.

Firms such as Carson Group, Morgan Stanley, Morningstar and Merrill are taking vastly different approaches to naming their AI assistants, with some preferring a human name, a male name or simply no human identifier.

The two firms are among the many wealth managers now being sued over allegations that they failed to obtain fair returns for their clients on their uninvested cash.

Gorman is stepping down as the bank's chairman at the end of the year. Here's a look at how he rebuilt Morgan Stanley with a focus on wealth management.

James Gorman will help lead the search for a new Disney CEO to be appointed in 2026.

The New York-based investment bank reported higher revenues across all business lines, with double-digit increases in wealth management and investment banking.

Within days of a colleague's retirement and having been introduced as their new advisor, Corbin Hoffner left for Raymond James.

A lawyer suing Wells and other firms argues the recent rate changes do nothing to repair harm already suffered by his clients.

Massachusetts regulators accused the wirehouse of not conducting proper oversight of stock sales made a First Republic executive shortly before the bank collapsed last year.

Researchers wonder if similar regulatory attention could eventually hit the bottom lines of independent broker-dealers and RIAs.

The soliciations can be made only to clients who have a net worth of at least $1.5 million, high risk tolerance and the intention to invest in speculative assets.

The hires add credibility to the wirehouse's renewed commitment to recruiting.

The Wall Street giant's Morgan Stanley at Work and private wealth units team up to serve top company officials — and possibly gain access to trillions in workplace wealth.

The Wall Street powerhouse is now the subject of two class action suits questioning whether it has been providing unreasonably low returns on clients' uninvested cash.