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Article: Morgan Stanley chairman and chief executive warns on earnings hit, downplays departures
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- May 10, 2005
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MICHAEL J. MARTINEZ, AP Business Writer
AP Worldstream
05-10-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK
Morgan Stanley's bottom line will likely suffer after the spinoff of Discover Financial Services and the division's strong cash flow, but the company is focused on expanding its other businesses to compensate, Chairman and Chief Executive Phil Purcell told investors Tuesday.
Purcell, speaking at UBS' Global Financial Services Conference, downplayed the recent high-level executive departures that have fed criticism of his leadership. Five of the 14 members of Morgan Stanley's executive committee have left the company over the past six weeks.
"When you choose some people in a new management structure, you don't ...