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The S.E.C. is expected to assert that brokers at Morgan Stanley, through its Partners Program, received financial incentives to sell the mutual funds of the investment companies, which would then direct brokerage business to Morgan Stanley.
The Wealth Management segment covers full-service retail brokerage, direct brokerage, mutual funds, intermediary services, trust services, and third-party financial services.
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Which reform proposals do you like? A. I support the ban on directed brokerage, where fund families direct trading to brokerages in return for that firm selling their funds.
He said that the practice of directing brokerage has kept the costs of trading unnaturally high at the nation's mutual funds.
Such a practice, known as directed brokerage, is a type of pay-to-play arrangement that can represent a conflict of interest, critics say.
A1 Fund Redirects Commissions MFS Investment Management suspended its longtime practice of directing brokerage commissions to securities firms that sell its mutual funds or bring it new clients.
Shortly before the Morgan Stanley settlement, the nation's oldest mutual fund company, MFS Investment Management, suspended its longtime practice of directing brokerage commissions to securities firms that sold its funds.
The rule on increased commissions, incentive payments known as "directed brokerage," resulted from an industrywide investigation of fund sales practices that regulators began last year.
In a filing, the company said that the regulators "are likely to take some action at the conclusion of the ongoing investigations related to market timing and directed brokerage".
He wants more disclosure of marketing fees paid by the fund management company -- presumably out of its profits from the management fees -- and of practices like using directed brokerage commissions to encourage sales of the fund.
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