Associate Programs for Graduates

Your Opportunity as a Morgan Stanley Associate

Morgan Stanley offers you an unsurpassed platform for building your career. Our global reputation, broad presence and deep understanding of the financial world will keep you intellectually challenged. You will find that the quality of our people makes our firm personally and professionally rewarding.

Institutional Securities

Equity Research

This department is responsible for providing in-depth analysis of companies, industries, and markets to assess the investment outlook in equities. It collects and analyzes financial information. Research analysts use Morgan Stanley's proprietary framework for risk-reward analysis and their interactions with leading investors to identify the key debates driving asset prices. They build financial models to explore alternative scenarios, make recommendations based on relevant evidence not yet reflected in current prices and publish research notes.

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Global Capital Markets

This department is responsible for helping clients raise capital, whether as stock, bonds or related products. GCM combines the firm’s investment banking skills with its sales and trading expertise, so we can offer clients fresh ideas and worldwide distribution in the capital markets. We work to help clients get the most value from each stage of a transaction, while managing risk.

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Investment Banking

This department is responsible for helping a wide variety of clients around the world to make and execute decisions about their business strategy and financial structure. Morgan Stanley is one of the top firms in M&A (mergers and acquisitions), in underwriting equity and related issues, in corporate debt and in high-yield debt financing.

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Strats & Modeling

This department is responsible for revenue-generating activities that are centered on analytics and technology. Embedded Strat teams work inside the firm's Global Capital Markets, Banking, Commodities, Equity and Fixed Income businesses. Other teams focus on practice areas like Market Modeling, Core Analytics, and Model Standards and Enforcement.

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