Kristen French

After 11 good years at Morgan Stanley, and with close to $100 million in client assets, one west coast-based broker, who was a member of Morgan Stanley's President's Club, recently decided he was fed up. In September...

Regulating You Stresses Them Out After months of trying to fill the position, the SEC hired a psychologist this summer to help boost flagging morale. It seems to have worked. A report by the Government Accountability...

In the past year, Merrill Lynch has spent heavily on an ongoing upgrade of its wealth management technology platform, rolled out a number of new alternative investments, created a structured products team and...

After a rough couple of years, Wachovia is back in good graces with its brokers. The many integration headaches of the firm's merger with Prudential Securities have finally subsided. Reps polled say management has...

The past year has not been a pleasant one for Morgan Stanley employees. The very public proxy battle between shareholders and then-CEO Philip Purcell kept the firm in the news nearly every day for months and not in a...

After California brokers won $37 million in an overtime lawsuit against Merrill Lynch in August, a slew of copycat lawsuits have been filed against other brokerage firms, many of them in New York. Some of the firms...

Money manager Jim Rogers was ahead of the pack through most of his career. In his younger days, he helped make George Soros into the billionaire hedge fund titan. In recent years, Rogers operated two successful...

After vastly simplifying it’s payout structure earlier this year, Wachovia Securities announced in a memo to brokers Tuesday that it would make some more tweaks in 2006 and raise ticket charges on some in-house...