A man on the move says it’s good to talk
After trying to be in four places at once, Morgan Stanley’s chief investment officer, Joseph McAlinden, is looking forward to moving to a permanent base, on the Avenue of the Americas. The foreign language challenge for New York
Morgan Stanley is making its latest attempt to woo UK institutions with the launch of its new multi-asset-class product.
From his office on the 66th floor of Two World Trade Center, Mitchell Merin has a good view on the world. Beyond downtown Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island offer inspiration to the head of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter’s asset management business, should he need it, as he contemplates just how far he has brought the business and where its future lies: outside America.
Late in 1998 Merin was made president and chief operating officer of the group’s asset management division and handed the task of unifying a four-pronged business. It comprised Dean Witter’s and Morgan Stanley’s funds, together with the Miller Anderson & Sherrerd and Van Kampen houses, which Morgan Stanley had bought not long before the Dean Witter merger.