- CEO
- Edward N. Pick
- Full Time Employees
- 83,000
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Capital Markets
- Address
- 1585 Broadway New York City NY United States of America 10036
- IPO Date
- Nov 19, 2019
- Business
- Morgan Stanley (MS-PL) operates as a depositary receipt representing a 1/1,000th interest in the company's 4.875% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series L, which forms part of the capital structure of Morgan Stanley, a leading global financial services firm headquartered in New York City since its founding in 1935; the firm provides a comprehensive range of investment banking, securities, wealth management, and investment management products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals worldwide across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Core offerings span institutional securities including equities trading, fixed income, derivatives, and prime brokerage services such as financing, market access, and portfolio management; wealth management solutions for high-net-worth individuals and families encompassing advisory, brokerage, lending, and retirement planning; investment management products like actively managed equities, fixed income and liquidity strategies, alternative investments including private equity, private credit, real assets, infrastructure, and hedge funds; as well as sales and trading in equity options, swaps, warrants, structured notes, futures, interest rate products, currency derivatives, municipal securities, high-yield bonds, credit derivatives, and collateralized securities backed by residential and commercial mortgages. Morgan Stanley conducts operations through three primary segments—Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management—targeting institutional clients, retail investors, and sovereign entities with bespoke advisory, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions support, risk management, and electronic trading platforms. In recent developments, Morgan Stanley entered an agreement to acquire EquityZen, a leading private shares platform, to enhance private market access for investors; Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) partnered with GSA to acquire a $1 billion off-market portfolio of eight student housing assets totaling 6,200 beds near top U.S. universities, expanding to 50 properties across 36 cities in 23 states; MSIM launched the Morgan Stanley Private Markets Composite Fund to broaden thematic private market investments; and investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital continued participation in growth financings such as Sokin's $50 million Series B round for payments expansion and Cover Whale's $40 million equity raise for insurtech advancements.