The MORGAN STANLEY GROUP is a publicly held investment adviser that advises $2,642.18Bn in regulatory assets under management held in 7 SEC fund types across 15 investment strategies. MORGAN STANLEY GROUP is a Hybrid A hybrid fund manager is a manager whose total assets under management are spread across multiple investment vehicle types rather than concentrated in one. Fund Manager. Assets increased by 112.74% over the last 5-years.
The Group has been registered with the SEC for 45.04 years and is comprised of 21 filing and 2 relying advisers. They operate out of 61 office locations with their Headquarters at 2000 WESTCHESTER AVENUE, HARRISON TOWNSHIP, MD. The Group has been subject to regulatory enforcement actions. They are regulated by 44 US and Non-US bodies.
They have 32,834 employees comprised of 14,956 investment and 17,878 non-investment staff. The total number of Employees increased by 14.02% over the last 5-years.
Their $2,642.18Bn in assets advised are owned by 568 private funds, 389 public funds and BDCs and 9,548 other accounts. Assets of Investment Companies (IC) clients own $1,546.52Bn or 58.53% of Total Assets and Pooled Investment Vehicles (Not IC or BDC) own $409.38Bn or 15.49% of Total Assets.
The Group's top investment strategies include FI/Credit - Diverse, Long/Short Equity and Fund of Funds, representing 62.87%, 16.47% and 7.62% of total assets, respectively.
They advise 13 types of clients, top clients are Investment Companies (IC) and Pooled Investment Vehicles (Not IC or BDC).
The Group uses 27 Fund Administrators, 2 Fund Auditors, 4 Prime Brokers, 46 Custodians and 123 Marketers. It does not report a third-party Fund Administrator in 13 private funds with $3.79Bn in assets.
The Group discloses advisory fees, fixed fees, management fees and performance-based fees.
MORGAN STANLEY GROUP names 8 sub-advisers ARTISAN PARTNERS, LP, CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT, FRANKLIN MUTUAL ADVISOR, LLC, GUARDCAP ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED, MORGAN STANLEY ASIA (SINGAPORE) PTE., PRINCIPAL GLOBAL INVESTORS, LLC, PROPRIUM CAPITAL PARTNERS, L.P., RBC GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AND FRANKLIN MUTAL ADVISOR, LLC to 4 different funds advised by the group. The Group has been named as the sub-adviser to 28 funds.
They have a HIGH-WATCH risk business model that requires a high degree of process maturity to manage operational risk. A Manager Group has a "High Complexity" when 25% or more of 63 business conditions measured require a high level of process maturity to manage the risk. The "Watch" suffix indicates that one or more of the following business conditions carry a high-complexity score: 1) % Fund Assets Valued Internally, 2) prior Regulatory Violations, 3) Unqualified Audits, 4) Multi-Functional C-Suite and 5) Business Concentration Risk with an Auditor or Administrator.
In MORGAN STANLEY GROUP's case, they have 38 business conditions that require high process maturity and 4 Watch Factors.