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MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY

738 known aliases resolved via the canonical alias map

Market position · 2024

Plans served2,642+81 YoYRank #9 of mapped providers
Assets under administration$860.8B0.9%Market share · rank #14
Fees received$246MMedian $37,298/planSum across Schedule C direct + indirect
Net wins YoY+87451 won · 364 lostPlan-level switch detection
Plans served · 5-year trajectory
Market-share plans percent annotated. Bar height is raw plan count.
Customer-base shape
What does a typical MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY plan look like?
Service mix · median fees per plan
Count of plans where MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY ships each service code, and the median compensation they report under it.
ServicePlansMedian feesDistribution
Soft dollars commissions; Investment advisory (plan); Investment managementCode 27
952$40,901
Shareholder servicing fees; Investment managementCode 28
341$22,024
Securities brokerage; Investment management; Investment advisory (participants); Investment management fees paid directly by planCode 26
298$42,701
Trustee (directed); Other services; Distribution (12b-1) fees; Participant communication; Recordkeeping and information management (computing, tabulating, data processing, etc.); Account maintenance fees; Direct payment from the plan; Shareholder servicing fees; Investment advisory (plan); Trustee (bank, trust company, or similar financial institution); Redemption fees; Recordkeeping fees; Float revenue; Participant loan processing; Investment management fees paid indirectly by plan; Investment managementCode 15
215$34,109
Other fees; Other commissionsCode 55
204$15,737
Legal; Named fiduciary; Shareholder servicing feesCode 29
144$40,742
Other services; Other fees; Other commissionsCode 49
129$0
Trustee (bank, trust company, or similar financial institution); Investment advisory (plan); Custodial (securities); Investment managementCode 19
96$108,845
Competitor overlap
Percent of MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY's plans that also list each competitor on Schedule C. High numbers = co-living partners; low numbers = direct displacement targets.
Plans won in 2024
Appeared this year; did not appear last year under MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY.
SponsorFromAssets
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMA · 043230035-499
ALIGHT SOLUTIONS LLC$10.3B
BOARD OF TRUSTEES-NEW YORK STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION PENSION PLANNY · 136604799-001
JP MORGAN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC$5.9B
JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORPORATIONNY · 870617894-001
SVB STRATEGIC INVESTORS FUND VIII$5.4B
WESTROCK COMPANYGA · 473335141-027
MONDRIAN INVESTMENT GROUP$4.4B
NATIONAL MEDICAL CARE, INC.MA · 042835488-002
TEAL, BECKER & CHIARAMONTE CPAS PC$4.4B
XEROX CORPORATIONCT · 160468020-334
VOYA RETIREMENT INSURANCE & ANNUITY$4.0B
JONES LANG LASALLE AMERICAS, INC.IL · 364160760-001
STRATEGIC ADVISORS, INC.$3.9B
EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANYMO · 430259330-067
WILLIS TOWERS WATSON US LLC$3.4B
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYNY · 160417150-001
INTELLIGO GROUP USA CORP$3.1B
HIGHMARK HEALTHPA · 453674900-333
ROCATON INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC$3.1B
Plans lost in 2024
Appeared last year under MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY; not this year.
SponsorToAssets
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE, INC.UT · 870269232-002
GLOBAL VIEW CAPITAL MANAGEMENT$6.0B
CONSTELLATION ENERGY GENERATION LLCPA · 233064219-001
STEPSTONE GROUP LP$5.3B
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NYCDCC PENSION FUNDNY · 510174276-001
BLUE CHIP RETIREMENT PLANS, INC.$4.8B
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANYCA · 951240335-001
BLACKROCK$4.7B
THE ALLSTATE CORPORATIONTX · 363871531-002
MERCER$4.3B
TRUSTEES OF I.B. OF T. UNION LOCAL 710 PENSION FUNDIL · 362377656-001
ALLIED UNIVERSAL JANITORIAL SERVICE$4.0B
NORDSTROM, INC.WA · 910515058-001
ALIGHT SOLUTIONS LLC$3.9B
THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.CT · 133317783-001
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL$3.6B
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA-CA · 952892780-001
JP MORGAN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC$2.2B
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA -CA · 956027308-002
JP MORGAN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC$2.2B
Top plans by assets
Searchable full list lands with the commercial layer.
PlanAssetsParticipantsFeesTenureFlags
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNY · 130871985-005
$60.4B149,818$978,70310y-
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.NJ · 232259884-102
$29.4B119,145$1M3y-
CITIGROUP INC.CT · 521568099-004
$23.2B121,279$13,3477y1
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNY · 130871985-001
$17.9B144,666$3M10y-
CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK, INC.NY · 135009340-001
$15.6B26,696$870,1599y-
SOUTHERN COMPANY SERVICES, INC.GA · 630274273-001
$15.3B58,166$2M9y-
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE I.A.M. NATIONAL PENSION FUNDDC · 516031295-002
$15.0B311,750$2M9y-
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC.NY · 134019460-001
$12.8B49,526$3M2y-
U.S. BANCORPMN · 410255900-004
$11.4B90,116$168,3767y1
NORTHWELL HEALTH, INC.NY · 113418133-003
$10.9B65,962$33,7212y-
Flag exposure
85.7%Market: 89.2%
This provider
Market baseline

Share of this provider's plans tripping any deterministic red flag this year. Lower than market baseline = better risk surface.

Aliases resolved (738)
Raw Schedule C names collapsed into MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY.
  • CGMI-MORGAN STANLEY
  • CGMI-SMITH BARNEY
  • CITI SMITH BARNEY
  • CONSULTING GROUP MORGAN STANLEY SMI
  • CONSULTING GROUP MORGAN STANLEY, SM
  • CONSULTING GRP/MORGAN STANLEY SMITH
  • DOBBS GROUP/GRAYSTONE/MORGAN STANLE
  • GEOFFREY KORWAN/MORGAN STANLEY
  • GEOFFREY LANE KALTENBACH
  • GEOFFREY MCDERMID
  • GEOFFREY WHITE
  • GRAYSTONE CONSLTNG / MORGAN STANLEY
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTANTS
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING (MSSB)
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING / MORGAN STAN
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING CINC
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING GROUP
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING INC
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING MIDDLETON
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING MORGAN STANLEY
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING RALEIGH
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING, LLC
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING-MORGAN STANLAY
  • GRAYSTONE CONSULTING-MORGAN STANLEY
Book composition by plan size
Bars stack to total plans served; segments use the same asset cutoffs as the /retirement size filter. Up-and-to-the-right on the bigger segments = moving up-market.
Under $5M$5-50M$50-250M$250M-1B$1B+
Compliance posture vs market
Per-flag share for MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY's book against the same flag's overall prevalence across all filings. Negative delta = under-indexed (cleaner book); positive = elevated risk surface.
FlagPlans flaggedProvider %Market %Delta
Recently terminated542.04%7.76%-5.72 pp
Fidelity bond gap863.26%26.94%-23.69 pp
Late contributions48018.17%1.71%+16.45 pp
Failed to provide benefit612.31%0.14%+2.17 pp
Corrective distributions53220.14%1.76%+18.38 pp
Loss discovered00.00%0.00%-0.00 pp
New-plan formation share
Share of plans filing for the first time each year that landed with MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY. Compare to the incumbent market share (3.9%) - higher = winning new business, lower = coasting on existing relationships.
0.0%-3.9 pp vs incumbent
Geographic penetration index
(Provider plans in state / state plans) divided by the provider's overall share of the market. Index 1.00 = average; > 1 = over-indexed (winning more than their fair share); < 1 = under-indexed (white space).
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