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May 08, 2012 at 08:17 AM
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MS) said Wednesday that it had recruited one team from UBS (UBS) and one from Wells Fargo (WFC) with total yearly fees and commissions of $4.2 million. Morgan Stanley also said Monday it had hired a team of institutional consultants from UBS for its Graystone Consulting unit.
Meanwhile, a former MSSB advisor joined Raymond James (RJF) on Tuesday, where he expects to manage some $148 million in client assets and generate $860,000 in annual production or more.
The two advisors recently joining MSSB in the Houston suburb of Woodlands, Texas, are Frank Bagrier and Wes Coyle. The former UBS team has managed $135 million in assets and had yearly combined production of $1.14 million.
Joining MSSB in Clayton, Mo., are Jeffrey Hollingsworth, William Simpson and Craig Billingsley. The former Wells Fargo team will report to complex manager Richard Lindquist. The advisors’ combined trailing-12-month production is $3.2 million.
Morgan Stanley, led by James Gorman, also says its Graystone Consulting business recruited the institutional consultant John Bello (previously with UBS) and the two other members of his group, Brian Mackert and Christopher G. Olszewski. The group is based in the Cleveland suburb of Westlake, Ohio, and will report to Gregory K. Simakas, based in Pittsburg.
“We are delighted that the Greg Simakas and John Bello teams have combined to provide unified coverage of the western Pennsylvania and northern Ohio regions,” said Marc Brookman, a managing director of MSSB, in a statement. “These two teams have established themselves as premier investment consultants to prominent endowments, foundations and other institutional investors and we expect their clients to benefit from their combined expertise.”
For his part, Bello said in a press release, “I am thrilled to join Graystone Consulting and the Simakas team, especially since Greg and I are longtime friends who value this opportunity to join forces.”
Graystone Consulting provides investment-consulting services to institutional clients, including associations, endowments and foundations, corporations, health-care organizations, insurance entities, state and local governments, Taft-Hartley funds and family offices.
In the first quarter of 2012, the number of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisors dropped 2% from the previous quarter and 5% from last year to 17,193, while total assets under management hit nearly $1.75 trillion, a jump of 7% from the previous quarter and a 2% increase from last year. (It had 17,512 advisors in the fourth quarter of 2011 and 18,124 in the first quarter of 2011.)
“I’m delighted to welcome Jeff and Lillian to Raymond James,” said Tash Elwyn (right), RJA’s Private Client Group president, in a press release. “They are a talented team with great experience. Most importantly, they share our firm’s values of independence and client service.”