June 11, 2021

Morgan Stanley Prosperity Administration was productive in its bid to reclaim around $600,000 in promissory notes, as well as curiosity, from a Florida broker it fired in January for allegedly failing to affirm trades with shoppers, in accordance to an arbitration award finalized this 7 days.

A Economical Field Regulatory Authority arbitrator ruled Thursday that Thomas James Hagan, a 36-yr broker who experienced been with the wirehouse given that 2015, have to pay out the principal stability of 4 “fully-executed” notes totaling $577,561.54, furthermore interest of $16,126.03, not like any more fascination accrued because Might 27. He was also requested to fork out $7,882 in attorneys charges and other expenditures, in accordance to the award.

Hagan experienced been terminated from Morgan Stanley next “allegations that he exercised discretion/unsuccessful to confirm all trades with clients,” according to a January 11 ‘disclosure’ on his BrokerCheck profile.

Hagan, who has not registered with a further Finra member agency because his discharge from the wirehouse, could not be reached for remark. He did not reply to notices from Finra dispute resolution solutions or make an overall look in the arbitration proceedings and had no lawyers symbolizing him in the subject, the award doc reported.

A spokesperson for Morgan Stanley, which had submitted its statement of declare on March 2, did not respond to a request for remark on the award or if Hagan has indicated he will fork out.

The notes at concern date back to November 2015, when Hagan joined the agency, with the most modern executed in February 2017, according to the award document.

Hagan started his brokerage job in 1984 with A.G. Edwards, joined Merrill Lynch in 1987 for a 19-12 months continue to be, and still left in 2006 for Wells Fargo Advisors. He then moved nine several years later to Morgan Stanley, according to his BrokerCheck profile. 

Major brokerage corporations, including Morgan Stanley, typically pay top rated brokers signing bonuses structured as ‘forgivable’ financial loans that can be multiples of a brokers’ once-a-year revenue, but they can need that brokers remain at the business for upwards of a decade for the loans to be forgiven.

Morgan Stanley had $3.24 billion in personnel financial loans fantastic as of the close of 2020, up 8.7% from $2.98 billion the 12 months in advance of, according to its 2021 annual report. The 12 months-around-12 months balance enhance was an indicator that the wirehouse has revived its using the services of initiatives for superior-developing veteran brokers considering that stepping again from the fray in 2017, as it followed sequential declines from 2012 as a result of 2019.

In one more promissory be aware circumstance in January, a former Morgan Stanley broker in Boca Raton was ordered to repay a $984,000 promissory note stability tied to his resignation in July 2020.