Morgan Stanley renames wealth management business

Published September 25, 2012 3:15pm ET



NEW YORK (AP) — Morgan Stanley said Tuesday that its U.S. wealth management business, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, has been renamed Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

The business manages $1.7 trillion in client assets through a network of 17,000 people in 740 locations. Earlier this month, the company reached a deal with Citigroup Inc. to increase its majority stake in the business and ultimately assume full control of it by June of 2015.

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