American multinational financial services corporation specializing in retail brokerage
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
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Company type
| Private
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Industry
| Financial services
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Founded
| 2009
; 15 years ago
(
2009
)
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Founder
| Henry S. Morgan
,
Harold Stanley
,
Charles D. Barney
,
Edward B. Smith
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Headquarters
| ,
U.S.
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Area served
| Worldwide
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Key people
| James P. Gorman
(
chairman
)
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Products
| Retail brokerage
,
asset management
,
investment banking
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Revenue
| US$17,242 billion (2018)
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| US$4,521 billion (2018)
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| US$3,472 billion (2018)
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AUM
| US$2.05 trillion (2014)
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Number of employees
| 17,646 (2011)
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Parent
| Morgan Stanley
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Website
| www
.morganstanleyindividual
.com
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Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
is an American
multinational
financial services
corporation specializing in
retail brokerage
. It is the wealth & asset management division of
Morgan Stanley
.
On January 13, 2009, Morgan Stanley and
Citigroup
announced that Citigroup would sell 51% of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley, creating Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which was formerly a division of Citi Global Wealth Management. The combined brokerage house has 17,646 financial advisors and manages $2 trillion in client assets.
[1]
Clients range from individual investors to small- and mid-sized businesses, as well as large corporations, non-profit organizations and family foundations.
On September 25, 2012, Morgan Stanley announced that its
U.S.
wealth management business was renamed "Morgan Stanley Wealth Management". The
broker-dealer
designation for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management will remain "Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC".
[2]
History
[
edit
]
Smith Barney & Co. was formed in 1938 through the merger of
Charles D. Barney & Co.
and
Edward B. Smith & Co
. Charles D. Barney & Co., a
New York
and
Philadelphia
based firm, was founded by
Charles D. Barney
in 1873 following the failure of its predecessor
Jay Cooke & Company
. Edward B. Smith & Co., founded in 1892 became a significant player in securities underwriting in 1934 when the firm absorbed the professionals from the securities business of
Guaranty Trust Company
, following the passage of the
Glass Steagall Act
.
[3]
In 1975, Smith Barney merged with Harris, Upham & Co. to form Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., which, in 1977, was placed under SBHU Holdings, a
holding company
. In 1982, SBHU Holdings was renamed Smith Barney Inc.
[4]
During the 1980s, the company was known for its television commercials featuring actor
John Houseman
, with the
catchphrase
, "They make money the old-fashioned way. They
earn
it."
[5]
After Houseman stepped down, the campaign continued with various actors, such as
Leo McKern
,
Joel Higgins
and
George C. Scott
.
In the late 1980s, the retail brokerage firm Smith Barney was owned by
Sanford I. Weill
's
Primerica Corporation
. Commercial Credit purchased Primerica in 1988, for $1.5 billion ($3,864,378,165 today). In 1992, they paid $722 million ($1,567,614,892 today) to buy a 27% share of Travelers Insurance and in 1993 acquired
Shearson
(which included the legacy business of
E.F. Hutton
) from
American Express
. By the end of 1993, the merged company was known as Travelers Group Inc.
[
citation needed
]
although the brokerage business continued to operate under the Smith Barney brand.
In 1993, Weill bought stockbroker Shearson back from American Express for $1 billion ($2,109,191,431 today), and merged it into Smith Barney.
[6]
[7]
(Weill had been in charge of Shearson Loeb Rhoades and sold it to American Express in 1981.
[8]
)
Weill offered
Joe Plumeri
the presidency of Smith Barney, and he became the President of the merged company that year.
[6]
[9]
[10]
He only lasted a year, as he experienced conflicts with existing Smith Barney managers.
[6]
In September 1997, Travelers acquired Salomon Inc. (parent company of
Salomon Brothers Inc.
), for over $9 billion ($17,082,089,552 today) in stock, and merged it with its own investment arm to create
Salomon Smith Barney
.
[11]
In April 1998 Travelers Group announced an agreement to undertake a $76 billion ($142,069,416,088 today) merger between Travelers and Citicorp, creating
Citigroup
, which at the time of the merger was the largest single financial services company in the world.
At the time of the
September 11, 2001, attacks
, it was the largest tenant in
7 World Trade Center
, occupying 1,202,900 sq ft (111,750 m
2
) (64 percent of the building) which included floors 28?45.
[12]
[13]
Sale to Morgan Stanley
[
edit
]
During the
major financial crisis beginning in late 2008
, Citigroup suffered large losses in its retained
collateralized debt obligation
exposure (loans that Citi underwrote but was not able to sell), and had to be
rescued
by the
U.S. federal government
. They decided to sell or close "non-core" businesses in order to raise money. On January 13, 2009,
Morgan Stanley
and Citigroup announced the merger of Smith Barney with Morgan Stanley's
Global Wealth Management Group
, with Morgan Stanley paying $2.7 billion cash upfront to Citigroup for a 51% stake in the joint venture. The joint venture operates as Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
[14]
Morgan Stanley itself was in a financially cash-strapped position like Citigroup during that time, but they were helped by the $9 billion that
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
had paid in 2008 for a 21% stake in Morgan Stanley.
[15]
[16]
[17]
On June 1, 2009,
Morgan Stanley
and
Citigroup
announced they closed early on the launch of their joint venture that combines Morgan Stanley's wealth management unit (including many former
Dean Witter
assets) with Citi's Smith Barney brokerage division. The new venture, called Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, was supposed to launch during the third quarter. The combined entity generates about $14 billion in net revenue, has 18,500 financial advisors, 1,000 locations worldwide and serves about 6.8 million households.
[18]
Citigroup disclosed on September 17, 2009, they would sell their remaining shares in the group to partner Morgan Stanley.
[19]
Acquisition history
[
edit
]
The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list):
[20]
Morgan Stanley
Smith Barney
(merged 2009)
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Morgan Stanley
(merged 1997, formerly Morgan Stanley Dean Witter)
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Smith Barney Shearson
(merged 1993)
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References
[
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]
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.
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.
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"Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is Now Morgan Stanley Wealth Management"
(Press release). Morgan Stanley. Sep 25, 2012
. Retrieved
October 16,
2012
.
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Business: Marriage of Convenience
.
TIME
Magazine, December 20, 1937
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Grant, Tina (ed.) (1996)
International Directory of Company Histories
(volume 14) St. James Press, Detroit,
p. 464
,
ISBN
1-55862-218-7
- ^
Elliott, Stuart (August 25, 1995).
"THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; Smith Barney summons the ghost of a haughty John Houseman in a revival of its 'timeless' ads"
.
The New York Times
.
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a
b
c
Bianco, Anthony (March 30, 1998).
"Joe Plumeri: The Apostle of Life Insurance"
.
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on December 9, 2012
. Retrieved
July 15,
2010
.
- ^
Rob Wells, "American Express Sells Shearson Unit to Primerica"
,
The Dispatch
, March 13, 1994, accessed July 16, 2010
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"American Express to Buy Shearson as Takeovers Transform Wall St"
.
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.
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. Business Insurance. October 2, 2000. Archived from
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.
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. Business Insurance. January 15, 2001
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[
dead link
]
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Ben Duronio (June 12, 2012).
"Morgan Stanley Is Killing 'Smith Barney' ? Here's The Story Of How It Died"
.
Business Insider
.
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Gilsanz, Ramon; Edward M. DePaola; Christopher Marrion; Harold "Bud" Nelson (May 2002). "WTC7 (Chapter 5)".
World Trade Center Building Performance Study
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Archived
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"Building: 7 World Trade Center"
. CNN. 2001.
Archived
from the original on October 13, 2007
. Retrieved
September 12,
2007
.
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"Morgan Stanley and Citi to Form Industry-Leading Wealth Management Business Through Joint Venture"
(PDF)
. Citigroup. January 13, 2009. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2009-02-06
. Retrieved
January 13,
2009
.
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"Morgan Stanley Completes Mitsubishi Deal"
.
The New York Times
. 29 September 2008
. Retrieved
4 November
2020
.
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Ellis, David (22 September 2008).
"Morgan Stanley to sell stake to Japan's MUFG"
.
cnn
. Retrieved
4 November
2020
.
- ^
"Breakingviews - Morgan Stanley has paid off smartly for MUFG"
.
reuters
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BusinessWeek
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Rieker, Matthias (September 17, 2009).
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