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{{short description|American financial services company}}
{{Use American English|date=June 2015}} 
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Morgan Stanley
| logo = Morgan Stanley Logo 2024.png
| image = Morgan Stanley Times Square.jpg
| image_caption = Headquarters at 1585 Broadway
| type = Public
| traded_as = {{ubl|{{NYSE|MS}}|S&P 100 component|S&P 500 component}}
| founders = {{Unbulleted_list|Henry Sturgis Morgan|[[Harold Stanley]]|William Ewing|Perry E. Hall|Edward H. York|John M. Young|Dean G. Witter|Richard S. Reynolds, Jr.}}
| foundation = {{start date and age|1935}}
| location = Morgan Stanley Building<br />New York City, New York, U.S.
| area_served = International service
| key_people = {{ubl||[[James P. Gorman]] (executive chairman)|Ted Pick (CEO)|Andy Saperstein (co-president)| Dan Simkowitz (co-president)}}
| industry = Financial services
| products = {{ubl|Investment banking| Sales and trading| Commodities| Prime brokerage| Wealth management| Investment management|Mutual funds |Exchange-traded funds |Index funds}}
| revenue = {{increase}} {{US$|54.1&nbsp;billion|link=yes}} (2023)
| operating_income = {{decrease}} US$11.8&nbsp;billion (2023)
| net_income = {{decrease}} US$9.1&nbsp;billion (2023)
| aum = {{increase}} US$1.46 trillion (2023)
| assets = {{increase}} US$1.19&nbsp;trillion (2023)
| equity = {{decrease}} US$100.0&nbsp;billion (2023)
| owner = MUFG (23.3%)
| num_employees = 80,006 (2023)
| subsid = {{ubl|Morgan Stanley Wealth Management|E-Trade|Eaton Vance|Solium|}}
| ratio = 15.2% (2023)
| website = {{official URL}}
| footnotes = 
}}
'''Morgan Stanley''' is an American multinational investment bank<!-- Its investment banking arm is a separate institution to its financial services. They are separate components that add up to the diversified services of the company. Leave as "investment bank and financial services company".--> and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the firm's clients include corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley ranked No. 61 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest [[United States]] corporations by total revenue and in the same year ranked #30 in Forbes Global 2000.

The original Morgan Stanley, formed by J.P. Morgan & Co. partners Henry Sturgis Morgan (a grandson of J.P. Morgan), [[Harold Stanley]], and others, came into existence on September 16, 1935, in response to the Glass–Steagall Act, which required the splitting of American commercial and investment banking businesses. In its first year, the company operated with a 24% market share (US$1.1&nbsp;billion) in public offerings and private placements.

The current Morgan Stanley is the result of the merger of the original Morgan Stanley with Dean Witter Discover & Co. in 1997. Dean Witter's chairman and CEO, Philip J. Purcell, became the chairman and CEO of the newly merged "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover & Co." The new firm changed its name back to "Morgan Stanley" in 2001. The main areas of business for the firm today are institutional securities, wealth management and investment management. The bank is considered systemically important by the Financial Stability Board.

==Overview==
Morgan Stanley is a financial services corporation that, through its affiliates and subsidiaries, advises, and originates, trades, manages, and distributes capital for institutions, governments, and individuals. The company operates in three business segments: Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management.

==History==
{{See also| JPMorgan Chase|J.P. Morgan & Co.}}

===Early years (1935–1997)===
Morgan Stanley traces its roots to J.P. Morgan & Co. After the U.S. Congress passed the Glass–Steagall Act in 1933, it was no longer possible for a corporation to have investment banking and commercial banking businesses under a single holding entity. The firm formally opened its doors for business on September 16, 1935, at 2 Wall Street, New York City, just down the street from J.P. Morgan. The firm was involved with the distribution of 1938 US$100&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=100000000|start_year=1938}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) of debentures for the United States Steel Corporation as the lead underwriter. The firm also obtained the distinction of being the lead syndicate in the 1939 U.S. rail financing. The firm went through a reorganization in 1941 to allow for more activity in its securities business.

The firm was led by Perry Hall, the last founder to lead Morgan Stanley, from 1951 until 1961. During this period, the firm co-managed the World Bank's triple-A-rated bonds offering of 1952, as well as coming up with [[General Motors]]' US$300&nbsp;million debt issue, US$231&nbsp;million [[IBM]] stock offering, and the US$250&nbsp;million [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T's]] debt offering.

Morgan Stanley credits itself with having created the first viable computer model for financial analysis in 1962, thereby starting a new trend in the field of financial analysis. Future president and chairman Dick Fisher contributed to the computer model as a young employee, learning the Fortran and COBOL programming languages at [[IBM]]. In 1967, it established the Morgan & Cie, International in Paris in an attempt to enter the European securities market. The firm acquired Brooks, Harvey & Co., Inc. in 1967 and established a presence in the real estate business. The sales and trading business is believed to be the brainchild of Bob Baldwin.

In 1996, Morgan Stanley acquired Van Kampen American Capital.

=== After the merger (1997–present) ===
[[File:MS Standard Logo 2022 Black.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Current Morgan Stanley Logo 2022]]
[[File:Morgan Stanley Historical Logo.png|200px|thumb|right|Historical logo used by Morgan Stanley in the early 2000s]]

On February 5, 1997, the company merged with Dean Witter Discover & Co., the spun-off financial services business of Sears Roebuck. Dean Witter's chairman and CEO, Philip J. Purcell, continued to hold the same roles in the newly merged "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover & Co." Morgan Stanley's president John J. Mack became the firm's president and chief operating officer. In 1998, the name of the firm was changed to "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co." Originally, the name was chosen to be the combination of the two predecessor companies to avoid tension between the two firms. Eventually, in 2001 "Dean Witter" was further dropped and the name became "Morgan Stanley" for unrevealed reasons. The merged firm began expanding overseas operations: in 1999, Mack set up a joint venture in India with local partner JM Financial.

Morgan Stanley had offices located on 35 floors across buildings 1, 2, and 5 of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]], and was the largest tenant of the WTC complex. Most of these offices had been inherited from Dean Witter which had occupied the space since the mid-1980s. The firm lost 13 employees during the September 11 attacks in 2001 (Thomas F. Swift, Wesley Mercer, Jennifer de Jesus, Joseph DiPilato, Nolbert Salomon, Godwin Forde, Steve R. Strauss, Lindsay C. Herkness, Albert Joseph, Jorge Velazquez, Titus Davidson, Charles Laurencin and Security Director Rick Rescorla) in the towers, while 2,687 were successfully evacuated by Rick Rescorla. The surviving employees moved to temporary headquarters in the vicinity. In 2005 Morgan Stanley moved 2,300 of its employees back to lower Manhattan, at that time the largest such move.

left|thumb|Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian is the only stand-alone pediatric hospital in New York City and is part of New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
In 2003, New York–Presbyterian Hospital named the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in recognition of the firm's sponsorship of the hospital, which largely funded its construction through philanthropy. The initiative began under CEO Philip J. Purcell and was completed under John Mack. Employees at the firm have been involved with the hospital since the 1990s and personally donated to the construction of the current child-friendly building, which opened in November 2003.

The company found itself in the midst of a management crisis starting in March 2005 that resulted in a loss of the firm's staff. Purcell resigned as CEO of Morgan Stanley in June 2005 when a highly public campaign by former Morgan Stanley partners threatened to damage the firm and challenged his refusal to aggressively increase leverage, increase risk, enter the sub-prime mortgage business and make expensive acquisitions; the same strategies that forced Morgan Stanley into massive write-downs, related to the subprime mortgage crisis, by 2007.

On December 19, 2006, Morgan Stanley announced the spin-off of its Discover Card unit. The bank completed the spinoff of Discover Financial on June 30, 2007.

In February 2007, Morgan Stanley announced the end of its Indian joint venture: the bank acquired its local partner's stake in the institutional brokerage business, and sold its own stake in the other businesses. The bank then set up a wholly-owned subsidiary; the country head of Investment Management, Narayan Ramachandran, became CEO of the new subsidiary. Aisha de Sequeira, a managing director in the Mergers and Acquisitions group, was made Head of Investment Banking.

To cope with the write-downs during the subprime mortgage crisis, Morgan Stanley announced on December 19, 2007, that it would receive a US$5&nbsp;billion capital infusion from the China Investment Corporation in exchange for securities that would be convertible to 9.9% of its shares in 2010.

The bank's Process Driven Trading unit was among several on Wall Street caught in a short squeeze, reportedly losing nearly $300&nbsp;million in one day. The bubble's subsequent collapse was considered to be a central feature of the financial crisis of 2007–2010.

The bank was contracted by the United States Treasury in August 2008 to advise the government on potential rescue strategies for [[Fannie Mae]] and [[Freddie Mac]]. Within days, Morgan Stanley itself was at risk of failure, with rapidly changing prospects, regulatory model and ownership stakes over the course of four weeks from mid-September to mid-October 2008.

The bank Morgan Stanley was reported to have lost over 80% of its market value between 2007 and 2008 during the financial crisis. On September 17, 2008, the British evening-news analysis program ''Newsnight'' reported that Morgan Stanley was facing difficulties after a 42% slide in its share price in two days. CEO John J. Mack wrote in a memo to staff "we're in the midst of a market controlled by fear and rumours and short-sellers are driving our stock down." By September 19, 2008, the share price had slid 57% in four days, and the company was said to have explored merger possibilities with CITIC, Wachovia, [[HSBC]], [[Standard Chartered]], [[Banco Santander]] and Nomura. At one point, Hank Paulson offered Morgan Stanley to [[JPMorgan Chase]] at no cost, but JPMorgan's [[Jamie Dimon]] refused the offer.

Morgan Stanley and [[Goldman Sachs]], the last two major investment banks in the US, both announced on September 22, 2008, that they would become traditional bank holding companies regulated by the [[Federal Reserve]]. The Federal Reserve's approval of their bid to become banks ended the ascendancy of securities firms, 75 years after Congress separated them from deposit-taking lenders, and capped weeks of chaos that sent Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. into bankruptcy and led to the rushed sale of [[Merrill Lynch|Merrill Lynch & Co.]] to [[Bank of America|Bank of America Corp.]]

[[MUFG Bank]], Japan's largest bank, invested $9&nbsp;billion in a direct purchase of a 21% ownership stake in Morgan Stanley on September 29, 2008. The payment from MUFG was supposed to be wired electronically; however, because it needed to be made on an emergency basis on Columbus Day when banks were closed in the US, MUFG cut a US$9&nbsp;billion physical check, the largest amount written via physical check at the time. The physical check was accepted by Robert A. Kindler, Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley, at the offices of Wachtell Lipton. Concerns over the completion of the Mitsubishi deal during the October 2008 stock market volatility caused a dramatic fall in Morgan Stanley's stock price to levels last seen in 1994. It recovered once Mitsubishi UFJ's 21% stake in Morgan Stanley was completed on October 14, 2008.

Morgan Stanley borrowed $107.3&nbsp;billion from the Fed during the 2008 crisis, the most of any bank, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News Service and published August 22, 2011.

In 2009, Morgan Stanley purchased Smith Barney from [[Citigroup]] and the new broker-dealer operates under the name Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the largest wealth management business in the world.

In November 2013, Morgan Stanley announced that it would invest $1&nbsp;billion (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=1000000000|start_year=2013}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to help improve affordable housing as part of a wider push to encourage investment in efforts that aid economic, social and environmental sustainability.

In July 2014, Morgan Stanley's Asian private equity arm announced it had raised around $1.7&nbsp;billion (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=1700000000|start_year=2014}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) for its fourth fund in the area.

In December 2015, it was reported that Morgan Stanley would be cutting around 25 percent of its fixed income jobs before month end. In January 2016, the company reported that it had offices in "more than" 43 countries.

In October 2020, the company completed its acquisition of E*Trade, a deal announced in February 2020 for $13&nbsp;billion, the biggest acquisition by a U.S. bank since the global financial crisis.

In March 2021, Morgan Stanley completed its acquisition of Eaton Vance, a deal announced in October 2020. With the addition of Eaton Vance, Morgan Stanley now had $5.4&nbsp;trillion of client assets across its Wealth Management and Investment Management segments.

The firm conducted layoffs in December 2022, and Bloomberg announced the firm expected more layoffs in mid-2023.

On May 2, 2023, an individual familiar with the matter reported that Morgan Stanley has outlined its intention to reduce approximately 3,000 positions by the end of June. The projected reduction constitutes roughly 5 percent of the bank's overall workforce, with financial advisors and support staff exempted from these staff cuts.

==Organization==
The company's 3 divisions are as follows:

===Institutional Securities Group===
[[File:NS5865 Office building on Waterloo Street.jpg|thumb|right|Offices of Morgan Stanley at the [[International Financial Services District]] in Glasgow, Scotland in 2018]]
{| class="wikitable floatright"
|+Revenue share by business unit (2023)
!Business unit
!share
|-
|Wealth Management
|48.5%
|-
|Institutional Securities
|42.6%
|-
|Investment Management
|9.9%
|-
|''Intersegment Eliminations''
|''-1.0%''
|}
Morgan Stanley's Institutional Securities is the most profitable business segment. This business segment provides institutions with investment banking services such as capital raising and financial advisory services such as mergers and acquisitions advisory, restructurings, real estate and project finance, and corporate lending. The segment also encompasses the Equities and the Fixed Income divisions of the firm; trading is anticipated to maintain its position as the "engine room" of the company. Among the major U.S. banks, Morgan Stanley sources the highest portion of revenues from fixed-income underwriting, which was reported at 6.0% of total revenue in FY12.

=== Wealth Management ===
The Global Wealth Management Group provides stockbrokerage and investment advisory services. This segment provides financial and wealth planning services to its clients, who are primarily high-net-worth individuals.

On January 13, 2009, the Global Wealth Management Group was merged with Citi's Smith Barney to form Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Morgan Stanley owned 51% of the entity, and Citi held 49%. On May 31, 2012, Morgan Stanley exercised its option to purchase an additional 14% of the joint venture from Citi. In June 2013, Morgan Stanley stated it had secured all regulatory approvals to buy Citigroup's remaining 35% stake in Smith Barney and would proceed to finalize the deal.

In February 2019, the company announced the acquisition of Solium Capital, a manager of employee stock plans, for $900&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=900000000|start_year=2019}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}).

In October 2020, the company completed its acquisition of E*Trade, a deal announced in February 2020 for $13&nbsp;billion, the biggest acquisition by a U.S. bank since the global financial crisis.

===Investment Management===
Investment Management provides asset management products and services in equity, fixed income, alternative investments, real estate investment, and private equity to institutional and retail clients through third-party retail distribution channels, intermediaries and Morgan Stanley's institutional distribution channel. Morgan Stanley's asset management activities were principally conducted under the Morgan Stanley and Van Kampen brands until 2009.

On October 19, 2009, Morgan Stanley announced that it would sell Van Kampen to Invesco for $1.5&nbsp;billion (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=1500000000|start_year=2009}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}), but would retain the Morgan Stanley brand. It provides asset management products and services to institutional investors worldwide, including pension plans, corporations, private funds, non-profit organizations, foundations, endowments, governmental agencies, insurance companies and banks.

On September 29, 2013, Morgan Stanley announced a partnership with Longchamp Asset Management, a French-based asset manager that specializes in the distribution of UCITS hedge funds, and La Française AM, a multi-specialist asset manager with a 10-year track record in alternative investments.

In March 2018, Morgan Stanley acquired Mesa West, a leading U.S. commercial real estate credit platform, adding to its existing investment strategies and product offerings across real assets and private credit.

In March 2021, Morgan Stanley completed its acquisition of Eaton Vance, a deal announced in October 2020. With the addition of Eaton Vance, Morgan Stanley now had $5.4&nbsp;trillion of client assets across its Wealth Management and Investment Management segments.

== Ownership ==
Morgan Stanley is mainly owned by institutional investors, who own around 60% of shares. The largest shareholders in December 2023 were:

* Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (23.06%)
* State Street Corporation (6.97%)
* The Vanguard Group (6.67%)
* [[BlackRock]] (5.53%)
* JP Morgan Chase (3.67%)
* Wellington Management Company (2.35%)
* Capital International Investors (1.50%)
* Geode Capital Management (1.46%)
* [[Bank of America]] (1.28%)
* Fisher Investments (1.24%)

==Awards and honors==
* In 2020 Morgan Stanley was named IFR's Bank of the Year, and in 2021 Morgan Stanley was named Euromoney's best investment bank in the world. 
* Fast Company named Morgan Stanley in its list of Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2020 and 2021.
* ''Great Place to Work Institute Japan'' in 2007 ranked Morgan Stanley as the second best corporation to work in Japan, based on the opinions of the employees and the corporate culture.
* ''The Times'' listed Morgan Stanley 5th in its ''20 Best Big Companies to Work For 2006''.
* Morgan Stanley was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by ''Working Mother''.
* ''Family Digest'' named Morgan Stanley one of the "Best Companies for African Americans" in June 2004.

==Controversy==

=== 2000s ===

In 2003, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $125&nbsp;million to settle its portion of a $1.4&nbsp;billion settlement of a suit brought by Eliot Spitzer, the Attorney General of New York, the National Association of Securities Dealers (now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)), the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and a number of state securities regulators, relating to intentionally misleading research motivated by a desire to win investment banking business with the companies covered.

In 2004, Morgan Stanley settled a sex discrimination suit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for $54&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=54000000|start_year=2004}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}). In 2007, the firm agreed to pay $46&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=46000000|start_year=2007}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to settle a class action lawsuit brought by eight female brokers.

In July 2004, the firm paid NASD a $2.2&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=2200000|start_year=2004}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) fine for more than 1,800 late disclosures of reportable information about its brokers.

In September 2004, the firm paid a $19&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=19000000|start_year=2004}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) fine imposed by NYSE for failure to deliver prospectuses to customers in registered offerings, inaccurate reporting of certain program trading information, short sale violations, failures to fingerprint new employees and failure to timely file exchange forms.

The New York Stock Exchange imposed a $19&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=19000000|start_year=2005}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) fine on January 12, 2005, for alleged regulatory and supervisory lapses. At the time, it was the largest fine ever imposed by the NYSE.

On May 16, 2005, a Florida jury found that Morgan Stanley failed to give adequate information to Ronald Perelman about Sunbeam thereby defrauding him and causing damages to him of $604&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=604000000|start_year=2005}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}). In addition, punitive damages were added for total damages of $1.450&nbsp;billion. This verdict was directed by the judge as a sanction against Morgan Stanley after the firm's attorneys infuriated the court by failing and refusing to produce documents, and falsely telling the court that certain documents did not exist. The ruling was overturned on March 21, 2007, and Morgan Stanley was no longer required to pay the $1.57&nbsp;billion (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=1570000000|start_year=2007}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) verdict.

Morgan Stanley settled a class-action lawsuit on March 2, 2006. It had been filed in California by both current and former Morgan Stanley employees for unfair labor practices instituted to those in the financial advisor training program. Employees of the program had claimed the firm expected trainees to clock overtime hours without additional pay and handle various administrative expenses as a result of their expected duties. A$42.5&nbsp;million settlement was reached and Morgan Stanley admitted no fault.

In May the firm agreed to pay a $15&nbsp;million fine. The Securities and Exchange Commission accused the firm of deleting emails and failing to cooperate with SEC investigators.

FINRA announced a $12.5&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=12500000|start_year=2007}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) settlement with Morgan Stanley on September 27, 2007. This resolved charges that the firm's former affiliate, Morgan Stanley DW, Inc. (MSDW), failed on numerous occasions to provide emails to claimants in arbitration proceedings as well as to regulators. The company had claimed that the destruction of the firm's email servers in the September 11 attacks in 2001, terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center resulted in the loss of all emails before that date. In fact, the firm had millions of earlier emails that had been retrieved from backup copies stored in another location that was not destroyed in the attacks. Customers who had lost their arbitration cases against Morgan Stanley DW Inc. because of their inability to obtain these emails to demonstrate Morgan Stanley's misconduct received a token amount of money as a result of the settlement.

In July 2007, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $4.4&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=4400000|start_year=2007}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to settle a class-action lawsuit. The firm was accused of incorrectly charging clients for storage of precious metals.

Under a settlement with New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the firm agreed to repurchase approximately $4.5&nbsp;billion worth of auction rate securities. The firm was accused of misrepresenting auction rate securities in their sales and marketing.

In March 2009, FINRA announced Morgan Stanley was to pay more than $7&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=7000000|start_year=2009}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) for misconduct in the handling of the accounts of 90 Rochester, New York-area retirees.

The Financial Services Authority fined the firm £1.4m for failing to use controls properly relating to the actions of a rogue trader on one of its trading desks. Morgan Stanley admitted on June 18, 2008, this resulted in a $120m (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=120000000|start_year=2008}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) loss for the firm.

===2010s===

In April, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the firm agreed to pay $14&nbsp;million related to an attempt to hide prohibited trading activity in oil futures.

Garth R. Peterson, one of Morgan Stanley's highest-ranking real estate executives in China, pleaded guilty on April 25 to violating U.S. federal anti-corruption laws. He was charged with secretly acquiring millions of dollars' worth of property investments for himself and a Chinese government official. The official steered business to Morgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $5&nbsp;million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and an additional $1.75&nbsp;million to CME and the Chicago Board of Trade. Morgan Stanley employees improperly executed fictitious sales in Eurodollar and Treasury Note futures contracts.

On August 7, 2012, it was announced that Morgan Stanley would pay $4.8&nbsp;million in fines to settle a price-fixing scandal, which had been estimated to have cost New Yorkers $300&nbsp;million to date. Morgan Stanley made no admission of any wrongdoing; however, the Justice Department commented that they hoped this would "send a message to the banking industry".

In ''Morgan Stanley v. Skowron'', 989 F. Supp. 2d 356 (S.D.N.Y. 2013), applying New York's faithless servant doctrine to a case involving Morgan Stanley's hedge fund subsidiary, United States District Judge Shira Scheindlin held that a hedge fund's employee engaging in insider trading in violation of his company's code of conduct, which also required him to report his misconduct, must repay his employer the full $31&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=31000000|start_year=2013}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) his employer paid him as compensation during his period of faithlessness. The judge also wrote:"In addition to exposing Morgan Stanley to government investigations and direct financial losses, Skowron's behavior damaged the firm's reputation, a valuable corporate asset."

In February 2014, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $1.25 billion to the US government, as a penalty for concealing the full risk associated with mortgage securities with the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

In September 2014, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $95&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=95000000|start_year=2014}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to resolve a lawsuit by the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi (MissPERS) and the West Virginia Investment Management Board. Morgan Stanley was accused of misleading investors in mortgage-backed securities.

In May 2015, Morgan Stanley was fined $2&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=2000000|start_year=2015}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) for short interest reporting and rule violations for more than six years, by FINRA.

February 2016, Morgan Stanley will pay $3.2&nbsp;billion (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=3200000000|start_year=2016}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to settle with state and federal authorities over Morgan Stanley's creation of mortgage-backed bonds before the financial crisis.

August 2016, Morgan Stanley Hong Kong Securities Ltd. was fined HK$18.5&nbsp;million ($2.4&nbsp;million) by Hong Kong's securities regulator, Securities and Futures Commission, for violations of Hong Kong's Code of Conduct. Included was Morgan Stanley's failure to avoid a conflict of interest between principal and agency trading.

December 2016, another unit of Morgan Stanley paid $7.5&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=7500000|start_year=2016}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to settle customer protection rule violations.

In January 2017, the corporation was fined $13&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=13000000|start_year=2017}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) due to overbilling and violating investor asset safeguarding custody rules. Morgan Stanley agreed to pay the fine without commenting on the charges.

Douglas E. Greenberg, a broker, was fired in 2018 after it was reported that four women from Lake Oswego, Oregon, had sought police protection against him over a 15-year period on allegations of harassment, threats, and assault. The story was called a #MeToo moment for Portland's financial service industry. He managed tens of millions of dollars (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=10000000|start_year=2018}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}), and had made the 2018 ''Forbes'' list for top wealth advisors in Oregon.

In December 2018, FINRA announced a $10&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=10000000|start_year=2018}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) fine against Morgan Stanley for failures in its anti-money laundering compliance. Morgan Stanley violated the Bank Secrecy Act over a period of five years.

In April 2019, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $150&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=150000000|start_year=2019}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to settle charges that it had misled two large California public pension funds about the risks of mortgage-backed securities. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra commented: "Morgan Stanley lied about the risk of its products and put profits over teachers and public employees who relied on its advice." Morgan Stanley denied wrongdoing.

In November 2019, Morgan Stanley fired or placed on leave four traders for suspected securities mismarking. The firm suspected that $100–140&nbsp;million in losses were concealed by the mismarking of the value of the securities.

Morgan Stanley paid a $1.5&nbsp;million fine to settle SEC claims that it put client money into more expensive mutual fund share classes when cheaper options were available despite representations to clients that it used tools to find the least costly option.

=== 2020s ===

In May 2020, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $5&nbsp;million penalty to settle allegations made by the SEC that the corporation provided misleading information to some clients in the retail wrap fee programs regarding trade-execution services and transaction costs.

In September 2022, the SEC announced charges against Morgan Stanley stemming from the firm’s extensive failures, over a five-year period, to protect the personal identifying information of approximately 15 million customers. Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $35 million penalty to settle the SEC charges.

In November 2023, Attorney General of Connecticut William Tong announced a $6.5 million settlement with Morgan Stanley for compromising the personal information of its customers due to negligent security practices.

In January 2024, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $249 million to settle a criminal investigation and a related Security and Exchange Commission probe related to the unauthorized disclosure of block trades to investors, by the bank's supervisor for such trades and another employee.

==Global and other headquarters==
The Morgan Stanley world headquarters are located in New York City, the European headquarters are in London, Asia Pacific headquarters are in both Hong Kong and Tokyo, and Canada headquarters in Toronto.

==Notable alumni==
* Dan Ammann, former General Motors President; chief executive officer, Cruise Automation
*Barton Biggs, author and hedge fund manager
* Erskine Bowles, Clinton White House Chief of Staff
* [[Richard A. Debs]], Chairman of Carnegie Hall; Middle East power-broker
* Bob Diamond, former chief executive officer, Barclays
* Richard B. Fisher, chairman of the board, [[Rockefeller University]] and Bard College; member, [[Trilateral Commission]]
* William E. Ford, General Atlantic Chairman and CEO
* Eric Gleacher, Founder of Gleacher & Co.
* Nina Godiwalla, author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street
* [[Robert F. Greenhill]], founder of Greenhill & Co.
* David Grimaldi, Chief Administrative Officer, New Castle County Government
* John Havens, former president, Citigroup, Inc.
* Lindsay Goldberg, pioneering buy-out firm founded by alumni Alan Goldberg and Bob Lindsay in 2001
* Nigel MacEwan, former chief executive officer, Kleinwort Benson North America; former president, [[Merrill Lynch]]
* John J. Mack, chairman of the board of New York-Presbyterian Hospital
* Raymond J. McGuire, President, Lazard Ltd.
* [[Mary Meeker]], Kleiner Perkins partner and founder, Bond Capital
* Mitchell M. Merin, financial executive
* Eileen Murray, co-president, Bridgewater Associates
* Fahad Al Mubarak, Governor, Saudi Central Bank
*[[Thomas R. Nides]], United States Ambassador to Israel
* Dr. Ann Olivarius, chair, McAllister Olivarius, trans-Atlantic employment and discrimination lawyer
* [[Stephen A. Oxman]], Assistant Secretary of State; chair, Princeton University Board of Trustees
* Vikram Pandit, former chief executive officer, Citigroup
* [[Joseph R. Perella]], philanthropist; Founder of Perella Weinberg Partners
* Charles E. Phillips, former President of Oracle, Inc.; C.E.O. of Infor
* [[Ruth Porat]], chief financial officer; Alphabet Inc.
* Frank Quattrone, Founder, Qatalyst Group
* [[Steven Rattner]], private equity manager and commentator
* [[Stephen S. Roach]], Yale University professor
* Benjamin M. Rosen, co-founder, Compaq Computer; chairman, California Institute of Technology
* [[David E. Shaw]], hedge fund manager
* Chip Skowron, hedge fund portfolio manager convicted of insider trading
* Bjarne Stroustrup, developer of the C++ programming language
* Thomas O. Staggs, COO and CFO Disney
* Charles F. Stewart, Sotheby's CEO
* [[John J. Studzinski]], CBE, American-British investment banker and philanthropist
* Sir David Walker, chairman, Barclays PLC
* [[Kevin Warsh]], G.W. Bush economic advisor; Member, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
* Byron Wien, legendary investment strategist; [[Blackstone Inc.]]

==See also==
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* Dean Witter Reynolds
* Discover Card
* MSCI
* Van Kampen Funds
* Metalmark Capital, formerly Morgan Stanley Capital Partners
* Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a joint venture with Citigroup

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==Further reading==
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* Chernow, Ron (1990). ''The House of Morgan''.
* Hibbard, J. (January 17, 2005). "Morgan Stanley: No stars—and lots of top tech IPOs". ''BusinessWeek'', 56–58.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060427052623/http://www.morganstanley.com/cgi-bin/morganstanley.com/pressroom.cgi?action=load&uid=424 John Mack Elected Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley]
* Partnoy, Frank. ''F.I.A.S.C.O''. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
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* Patricia Beard (2008). ''Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley''.

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