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Speaker 1: Yeah, Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane

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Speaker 1: Morgan Stanley joining us in New York. Jennifer's around. Jennifer,

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Speaker 1: go through the numbers for me. What are we looking at? UM? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the first number everyone likes to look at

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Speaker 1: his fixed income trading, and that was a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a miss. They came in at eight eight million.

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Speaker 1: Analysts were thinking it would be closer to one point

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Speaker 1: two billion UM, and so you know, that's been the

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Speaker 1: case across Wall Street. You know, yesterday Goldman also reported

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Speaker 1: a miss UM. Now this has been like an ongoing competition.

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Speaker 1: We'regan Stanley really gay eating some ground on Goldman UM

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Speaker 1: and it seems like maybe they slipped a little bit

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Speaker 1: so I'm thinking that people have kind of shifted their

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Speaker 1: focus a little bit UM and looked at their wealth

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Speaker 1: management unit, which posted both record income and record revenues

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Speaker 1: UM that you know, James Gorman made this huge back

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand nine when he bought Smith Barney,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like maybe that's starting to show the results.

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Speaker 1: And Jennifer Morgan Stanley of course less dependent on Fick

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Speaker 1: trading revenue than say a Goldman Sacks, much more dependent

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Speaker 1: there and looking solid out swhere. James Gorman is doing

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Speaker 1: a terrific job here. And we spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: time talking about Jamie Diamond at JP Morgan Lloyd Blank

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Speaker 1: find at Gorman Sacks. But Gorman's like the quiet man

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Speaker 1: on Wall Street delivering some pretty solid results for Morgan Stanley. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he has a strong bench, you know. He um he

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Speaker 1: had promised. Is it fair to say, Jennifer that Morgan

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Speaker 1: I think it's still a trading shop. I think, I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously wealth management has become increasingly important to the bank, UM,

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Speaker 1: Bug's very young Jennifer surrounded by investors this morning some

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Speaker 1: confidence after the numbers. The stock up by around about

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Speaker 1: one four percentage point in the pre market. I'm Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Farao in New York City for Bloomberg Surveillance over in

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Speaker 1: the city of London all week. Bloomberg's Tom kink and

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Speaker 1: morning Mr king A. You're morning, John Farrell. Interesting to

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Speaker 1: see Morgan Stanley there off of Goldmen Sex yesterday. It'll

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Speaker 1: be sliced and dice to the day. But really what

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Speaker 1: whether you're just an informed investor, or we think all

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Speaker 1: And I've run into a lot of people John in

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Speaker 1: good morning. And we do that with Bill Blaine of

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Speaker 1: Mint Partners, and we can go right to the heart

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Speaker 1: of the matter, Bill Blaine, which is whether it's Morgan

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Speaker 1: Is this something we need to get used to? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's fair. And you mentioned volatility because just the last

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Speaker 1: they will improve. Bill, who's getting this right right now,

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Speaker 1: this period that Tom's just described where zero ball has

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Speaker 1: all kinds of market events. These are all vole creating events,

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Speaker 1: And of course that has ever thus been the problem. Well,

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Speaker 1: Why is that? I think it's because people are looking

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Speaker 1: this morning on Bloomberg Radio Bloomberg Television as well. How

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Speaker 1: could it possibly be that one of the most acute, sharpest,

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Speaker 1: John Farrell would understand that. Of course, I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: John Farrell. I'm also talking about Brian Class. He's at

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Speaker 1: the London School of Economics. He made a modest splash

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Speaker 1: a number of years ago. The Despot's accomplice followed it

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Speaker 1: So my question to you, Brian, it's quite simple, what

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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, the world is a tumultuous

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Speaker 1: clearly reckless, impulsive, and has serious questions about their fitness

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Speaker 1: And that's where I think we are sort of just

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Speaker 1: you know, John, I think it's partly reflective of also

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Speaker 1: So I think you know CEOs and c h R

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Speaker 1: are beginning to look at all sorts of alternative ways

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Speaker 1: To be clear, by offering the bonus, you get the

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Speaker 1: you because you're still going to use contingent labor. Is

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Speaker 1: that what this is about. I think there's a part,

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Speaker 1: also One other reason why I think companies are reluctant

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Speaker 1: as I said, I mean the conference, what we definitely

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Speaker 1: you give me a percentage? I mean, is it going

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Speaker 1: to be one or two percent squeezing out wage gains

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Speaker 1: not huge, but you know it's not it's not insignificant,

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Speaker 1: aren't they spread out? Bart over people going up zero

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Speaker 1: or negative one and other people earnering real tangible gains. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: tom totally, And that's why that's why you're seeing this

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Speaker 1: much broader approach, that that companies are taking towards the

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Speaker 1: labor market at a higher end that you have to

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Speaker 1: pay skill premiums, and companies are going to do this.

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Speaker 1: You can just solve this by not seeing your wage

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Speaker 1: bill increasing. But I do think that there is so

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Speaker 1: much broader thinking about how you can combine the needs

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Speaker 1: for talent with what you have to pay as a

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Speaker 1: company to bring that talent. In Part finner, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for the more important news survey really quite timely.

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Speaker 1: Uh and and really Johnny should say timely as well

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Speaker 1: into all the surveys that we see before the meetings

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