Morgan Stanley - Growth Fund - Stock Valuation and Financial Performance

Morgan Stanley was incorporated in the year 1935. Since its incorporation the company and its people have helped re-define the meaning of financial services. The firm has continually broken new ground in advising its clients on strategic transactions, in pioneering the global expansion of finance and capital markets, and in providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.

Institutional Services:

1) Sales and Trading: Sales and Trading offers cash and electronic trading platforms where Morgan Stanley acts as principal (including as a market maker) and agent in executing transactions globally in equity and equity-related products, which include equity swaps, options, warrants and futures overlying individual securities, indices and baskets of securities and other equity-related products.

Morgan Stanley's Institutional Equity division is a global leader in the origination, distribution and trading of equity, equity-linked and equity-derivative securities. The company’s Fixed Income team deals in incredibly diverse products, including interest rate and currency products, credit products, derivatives and commodities.

2) Investment Banking: A global leader in investment banking, Morgan Stanley consistently ranks among the top firms in mergers and acquisitions, equity underwriting and debt financings. The company’s Investment Banking Division offers unsurpassed financial advisory and capital-raising services to corporations, organizations and governments around the world.

3) Investment Management:  Morgan Stanley Investment Management strives to provide outstanding long-term investment performance and best-in-class service to a diverse client base, which includes governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide. The company's global structure leverages the breadth, depth and access of the Morgan Stanley franchise to provide clients a comprehensive suite of investment management solutions.

4) Prime Brokerage: Modern asset managers and investors face intense challenges in the quest to grow assets and achieve superior returns. Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage is in a unique position to help address these challenges.

For more than 25 years, Morgan Stanley has led the industry and set the standard for excellence in prime brokerage. The company’s large market share not only testifies to the value the company provides, it also gives the industry insight and experience to serve its clients better.

Moreover, the company is consistently rated Number One across a broad range of services. Its proprietary technology and shared platforms increase efficiency at every stage of the trading cycle. Client service representatives focus on adding value and Morgan Stanley’s flexible, customizable portfolio analytics accommodate clients’ unique requirements.

The company’s ultimate goal is to help its clients succeed. The company provides access to the full breadth of the Morgan Stanley franchise, connecting clients to a wide range of expertise, from innovative investment ideas to new sources of capital. In addition,company's worldwide presence allows the company to devote global resources to fully address client goals and objectives.  Its clients attest that Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage does not just promise excellence in service and solutions.

5) Research: Morgan Stanley Investment Research is one of the financial industry's dominant thought leaders in equity and fixed-income investing. The company’s analysts, economists, and strategists have earned this reputation through timely, in-depth analysis of companies, industries, markets, and the world’s economies. The company’s  teams collaborate to assist Morgan Stanley clients with investment decisions, using cash and derivative instruments across major asset classes and geographies.

Global Footprint

Research teams are organized by country, region, and global industry to cover all major markets in Asia, Europe, EMEA, Japan, Latin America, and North America, with over 2,300 stocks under coverage.

The company’s economists not only forecast economic activity, inflation, interest and exchange rates but also provide daily insights into policy, economic, and political trends.

Investment StrategyWorking across equity and fixed income markets, the strategy team seeks significant market trends, themes, and investment strategies that lead to superior returns.

Company and Industry Research

The company’s research analysts deploy a variety of tools and resources to assess the investment outlook, including industry contacts, supplier and customer surveys, and public documents, as well as insights from Morgan Stanley analysts following other industries, regions, and asset classes. It looks for inflection points that the market may be missing and use scenario analysis to identify future catalysts that will shape companies and industries and determine relative value.

Technology Research

Proprietary Modeling and Valuation: A proprietary analytic framework, ModelWare, underpins Morgan Stanley’s investment models, providing transparency and comparability to its global coverage universe. The company's Open Research approach offers the company, investment views with a systematic calibration of risks and rewards.

Institutional Consulting: Graystone Consulting, a business of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, delivers a complete range of investment-consulting services to institutional clients company’s mission is simple: to help set the industry standard for providing investment solutions to sophisticated clients.

Its tailored solutions have helped many institutional investors meet their investment objectives. Today, the company helps associations, defined benefit and defined contribution plan sponsors, foundations and other non-profit organizations, health care entities, public plans, Taft-Hartley funds and state and local governments manage their fiduciary responsibilities.

It follows a disciplined investment-consulting process; one that begins and ends with  clients: Investment strategies are delivered by dedicated teams of consultants, each led by an Institutional Consulting Director. The company's directors, who have an average of 25 years of experience, deliver customized advice backed by the global resources of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, an industry leader in investment advice and wealth management.

Awards and Recognition: 

Euromoney magazine awarded Morgan Stanley 20 Award for Excellence in 2011

Award from NGLCC: The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce - a business advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender businesses and entrepreneurs - has presented Morgan Stanley with its Financial Services Diversity Corporation of the Year award.

Financial News Lauds Morgan Stanley as Bank of the Quarter: Financial News Lauds Morgan Stanley as Bank of the quarter.

Morgan Stanley Nets 5 ALB Japan Law Awards: Morgan Stanley's legal team in Tokyo received top awards in five categories from Asia Legal Business.Morgan Stanley Japan Ranks Second in Annual 'Great Place to Work' Survey: Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., has won second place in an annual survey that asked 81 companies and their employees to measure workplace satisfaction.

Champions of Diversity Award from NYUL: The New York Urban League presented Morgan Stanley with its Champions of Diversity award at its seventh annual awards breakfast at the Four Seasons Restaurant.

Pro Mujer Team Wins Firm's Annual Strategy Challenge:  Morgan Stanley employees recently harnessed their competitive spirits and participated in the Firm's second annual Social Enterprise Strategy Challenge on June 16, an initiative providing top talent the unique opportunity to leverage commercial skills for social impact.

Green Earns Award for Data Center, Saves Greenbacks:  Morgan Stanley's European Data Center team has garnered a prestigious award recognizing improvements made in efficiency at the Firm's UK operations.