SMITH BARNEY

A wirehouse brand that still groups after the merger

Filers keep typing names they used on older W-2s and business cards. SMITH BARNEY is one of those strings. LobbyVault ranks the grouped text; it does not merge it into MORGAN STANLEY. The $5,882,332 total is itemized individual gifts whose employer field grouped here. It is not a successor firm’s current PAC.

People who typed MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY, CITIGROUP SMITH BARNEY, PAINE WEBBER, MERRILL LYNCH, or BROKER without a firm sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode merger history into a single wirehouse key.

Brokers who moved under a Morgan Stanley letterhead and kept typing SMITH BARNEY stay in these 678 donors on those receipts. Brokers who updated the box leave the key. LobbyVault records the text.

678 donors and 13,479 receipts

678 unique donors produced 13,479 SMITH BARNEY contribution lines totaling $5,882,332. That is on the order of 20 itemized receipts per donor. Alumni who still type the pre-merger name share the string with anyone whose receipt carried the same letters. The packet does not publish a mean gift or an active-versus-retired split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and committee PAC filings in a successor firm’s name are outside the $5,882,332 unless the individual receipt itself lists SMITH BARNEY. Unitemized gifts never appear.

13,479 lines totaling $5,882,332 are itemized federal individual receipts. MORGAN STANLEY as a separate firm key is not added into this total.

Questions

How much have SMITH BARNEY-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $5,882,332 to the SMITH BARNEY employer string, from 13,479 contributions and 678 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a successor firm’s PAC and not a NAICS securities total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this Morgan Stanley corporate political spending?

No. The $5,882,332 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to SMITH BARNEY. MORGAN STANLEY, successor legal names, and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include Paine Webber or Merrill Lynch employees?

No. PAINE WEBBER and MERRILL LYNCH are separate employer strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text SMITH BARNEY. Staff who typed only BROKER are in that title row instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed SMITH BARNEY?

The rollup counts 678 donors and 13,479 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an alumni headcount from a successor firm. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.