Risk Magazine honors Morgan Stanley with Risk Awards 2000, citing creativity and customer relations among winning attributes.

In its January, 2000 issue, Risk magazine named Morgan Stanley both Interest Rates Derivatives House of the Year and overall Derivatives House of the Year.

According to Risk, "Not only has Morgan Stanley demonstrably kept clear of many of the risk pitfalls that have snared its competitors, but it is also a popular firm among a variety of end-users, many of which attest to its creativity." Risk continues, "Not only does Morgan Stanley have the ideas but, crucially, it also has breadth of expertise that makes creativity possible. More than any other big player in fixed income, it appears to have successfully integrated derivatives into its wider business activity, including investment banking."

"We start with an open dialogue with our clients," says George James, Global Head of Derivatives and Government Bonds at Morgan Stanley. "We then take a very centralized approach to all the uses of derivatives, and how they relate to achieving our clients' overall objectives, to offer our clients an integrated solution."