What is the difference between JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley?

Asked by chelle21689 (7907

) October 8th, 2014

Do they offer the same services? I researched and a lot of people said that JP Morgan focuses on commercial banking and Morgan Stanley focuses on investment banking, stocks, etc.

I went to their sites and they seem to do pretty much the same thing?

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Simply put, Morgan Stanley is similar to Fidelity.com in that they provide investment management and advice. JP is a big fancy bank.

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Morgan Stanley does not have a retail banking operation since they divested Dean-Witter several years ago. Their focus is on investment banking, mergers-and-acquisitions advisory, and commercial banking activities such as corporate bond issues, IPO management and securitizations.

JP Morgan/Chase has a substantial retail banking operation (the Chase part) but they also do a lot of the same sorts of investment banking as Morgan Stanley. They were heavily involved in the securitization (bundling) of sub-prime mortgages that had a lot to do with the 2008 meltdown and for which they have been investigated and fined.

Both have large trading operations, both for clients and for the in-house book, across all the big markets, commodities, foreign-exchange, equities (stocks).

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