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Morgan Stanley is one of the world’s top investment banks, offering its clients everything from stock portfolio management to credit services. Like others in the securities industry, it invests in and advises virtually every industry affected by federal legislation. The company, which splits its contributions evenly between Democrats and Republicans, has been a major proponent of privatizing Social Security. Morgan Stanley ... has lobbied in favor of proposals to deregulate the securities industry, so that investment firms can further extend their reach into financial services.
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Morgan Stanley is a large investment bank organized in three segments. Its institutional securities group focuses on capital raising, financial advisory services, corporate lending, trading, and proprietary investing. Global wealth management has more than 8,000 financial advisors, making it one of the largest brokerage networks in the U.S. The asset-management group operates under the Morgan Stanley and Van Kampen brands. In 2007, the group managed more than $590 billion in client assets.
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Morgan Stanley has a long history in Japan. In the 1920s, following the Great Kanto Earthquake, The House of Morgan managed the $150 million earthquake bond issued by the Japanese Government, as well as a number of other government and municipal bond offerings.
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Morgan Stanley Spain now enjoys access to heterogeneous system-stored critical data with single, unified delivery. As a result, queries and analysis response times have been dramatically reduced, from 180 minutes to five minutes for risk management calculations, and from 30 minutes to one minute for term bonds balances. This comprehensive and efficient data warehouse provides access to information for clients, products and sales channels as well as business areas such as marketing, sales and finance.
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Investors might overlook this black eye given how much Morgan Stanley has raked in from these strategies over the years. But they could feel less forgiving on its trading stumble, which Lehman avoided. Morgan Stanley's 24 per cent fall in fixed income trading revenues from the previous quarter was largely driven by the eye-popping $1bn decline in credit and mortgages trading. A lot of things went wrong. Some were out of Morgan Stanley's control, such as the market seizing up. But to suffer such a fall from grace – even taking into account the unusually strong numbers for the previous quarter – must have involved some self-inflicted wounds, such as getting some hedging wrong.
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The Morgan Stanley building is shown in this June 19, 2007 file photo in New York. The financial world is anxiously waiting as four of the biggest U.S. investment banks prepare to report third-quarter earnings in the next several days. (Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)
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