Morgan Stanley Employer Reviews

This is my first working experience in an international company, it really taught me a lot.

Good company to work for, they care about their employees. They also provide good training.

Each day meets you with different challenges with can force you to tap into your own resources as well as leverage off of the knowledge base of your peers. You are rewarded with not only competitive compensation, but the pride that your accomplishments have had a great impact.

I worked there a while, pressure is tremendous to meet goals but meet them and they pay you well.

I had the opportunity to increase my experience and knowledge in a corporate setting. I was going to school full time and the company was very cooperative and understanding of my work and life balance.

I enjoyed working there and formed lasting friendships.

the finance division is a difficult place to be in at MS. pay and moral are quite low.

• Prepare and review legal documents for new fund launching
• Facilitate account openings for different financial products including PB, options, futures and equity swaps
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Client Services, Sales, and Negotiators to onboard new and organic clients
• Communicate and execute requests from internal and external clients
• – more... Test and provide feedback to development team in relation to enhancement tools
• Perform due diligence, Know your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) compliance for domestic and foreign counterparties – less

such an awful place to work in! there is NO job advancement, everybody is SO unprofessional. AVOID AVOID AVOID. they'll tell you you can get your series 7, but you'll be a temp for a long long time and never move up.

Great place to work and learn. Management are great and alway willing to help. Co-worker work hard and play hard. Sometime things get so busy that you could forget to eat.

In January of 2008, the CEO of Morgan Stanley sent an email to all employees saying that if we were ever going to catch up to Goldman Sachs, our arch rival, we needed to take greater risks. In February of 2008, Morgan Stanley lost $30,000,000,000 (Thirty Billion Dollars!) and laid off 30,000 employees, myself included, most of whom had absolutely nothing – more... to do with management's fiasco.

After being bailed out, management awarded itself healthy bonuses for a job well done! – less

Conduct investment manager searches and due dillegence. Help put together client portfolios and compose capital market views. Put together client reviews

One of my favorite places to work. I learned how to handle stressed and irate customers. My customers knew I gave them 110% of my ability to get their issues resolved.

This firm advertises opportunities to get in to this rewarding field where you can help others reach their financial goals. They advertise a complete training program *the FAA Program*, replete with a coach, weekly meetings with a manager to help build your business, and much much more. BUT, this does not happen if you are in NJ, NY or even most of – more... PA.

First day...handed a bunch of papers, sit down at your cube, and "figure it out." There was no help, guidance, training, mentorship, or ANYTHING that was promised.

Best thing was, I got totally licensed. Now that I am not meeting their SALES goals, I am leaving...but with a book of clients who will come with me to another firm that really cares about clients, rather than judging them about how much in assets they have.

Yes, judge people by the assets they have to invest. The MINIMUM a client needs to bring in is 100K. I ask, how many people do you know who have that amount and are willing to put up with MS ridiculous fees? Annual maintainence fees, low balance fees if the account falls under a threshold for even one day, and then there are the fees. High fees. 2% or more. Few if any. So you will struggle, as I do to bring in assets. Then they hold back your account processing, because you are new, so they can say you did not meet goals at 3, 6, 9, 12, and more months checkpoints. And again, they think that a person with less than 100K to invest is worthless.

What to do? GO ahead and take the FAA job if you get through the screening process. Do the studying and get your licensing. Then, build up potential clients and wait for MS to term you so you can go elsewhere to really service clients.

MS bleeds you dry. Take what you can and get out. You do not want to spend your life in a rathole. And that statement is an insult to rats.

Better off now o knowing I am going at a place that cares about my clients and me. Thanks MS for the licenses and all, and I am glad to have been able to get better opportunity after you used me and treated my clients, as well as any who had less than what you thought was acceptable, terribly.

Giving notice Friday

Chalk it up to experience. BAD experience with MS...but great results long-term for me and my clients – less

Good experience. Development of skills. Limited mobility and advancement opportunities.

good company to work for.
management is awesome
co-worker are all good
high sales expectation
happy environment

generating portfolio performance review presentations for FAs clients.
compiling market and index fact sheets daily.
monitoring weekly FA conference calls among different FAs and money managers discussing economic trends and investment strategies.
client specific market research for certain portfolios.

At Morgan Stanley, employees are understood to be professionals, and as professionals are given the freedom to work with their team members to determine the best strategy for accomplishing the task at hand. As a member of the client litigation department, I work closely with a handful of senior attorneys to develop defense strategy, draft legal documents, – more... and meet discovery requirements. Our department is small, so there are strong working relationships among all the attorney's and support staff. At Morgan Stanley, I have learned to be a more independent worker, better at anticipating needs and future developments. While the most enjoyable part of the job is the relationships I have developed, and the stories that emerge in the process of working on a case, I find the most difficult part to be dealing with a large bureaucracy, in an environment of forever immanent cutbacks. – less

I enjoyed my coworkers and learning new aspects of my job. The work environment was very friendly and allowed space for questions and creative solutions.

- Motivated People
- Intelligent People
- Cross-Mobility within departments a plus

Everyone would normally be working on their own independent task, however when help was needed we would consult each other to try and find a quick and effective solution to our problem

I learned a lot about what it means to work in a team oriented environment as well as what it takes to make it in an IT department.

The hardest part of my job would – more... have to be team conferences, where we would come together to solve large scale problems as well as share info on the task we were working on. I found this hard because i was not very found of speaking publicly; however with the help of everyone I was able to overcome that obstacle.

The best part of my job would have to be the fact that I was doing something that i have a great passion for. I have loved computers since I was a kid and to be able to work in an IT department with more experienced IT personal was a great pleasure. – less