OTHER MATTERS
The effective tax rate from continuing operations for the quarter was 34.7 percent, up from 27.8 percent a year ago. The increase in the rate primarily reflected the change in the geographic mix of earnings between domestic and foreign sources.
As of September 30, 2009, the Company’s Tier 1 capital ratio, under Basel I, is approximately 15.3 percent and Tier 1 common ratio, under Basel I, is approximately 8.2 percent.10
The Company announced that its Board of Directors declared a $0.05 quarterly dividend per common share. The dividend is payable on November 13, 2009 to common shareholders of record on October 30, 2009.
Total capital as of September 30, 2009 was $217.0 billion, including $57.1 billion of common equity, preferred equity and junior subordinated debt issued to capital trusts. During the quarter, common equity was reduced by $950 million reflecting the Company’s repurchase of the warrant previously issued under TARP.
As of September 30, 2009, the Company has not repurchased any shares of its common stock during this year as part of its capital management share repurchase program. Book value per common share was $27.05, based on 1.4 billion shares outstanding, and reflected a reduction of $0.70 related to the repurchase of the TARP warrant noted above.
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A financial summary follows. Financial, statistical and business-related information, as well as information regarding business and segment trends, is included in the Financial Supplement. Both the earnings release and the Financial Supplement are available online in the Investor Relations section at www.morganstanley.com.
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The information above contains forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made and which reflect management's current estimates, projections, expectations or beliefs and which are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties that may affect the future results of the Company, please see "Forward-Looking Statements" immediately preceding Part I, Item 1, "Competition" and "Supervision and Regulation" in Part I, Item 1, "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A, "Legal Proceedings" in Part I, Item 3, "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in Part II, Item 7 and "Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk" in Part II, Item 7A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2008 and other items throughout the Form 10-K, the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.
1 Includes preferred dividends and related adjustments of $259 million. This reduced earnings per diluted common share by approximately $0.20.
2 For the quarter ended September 30, 2009, continued improvement in debt-related credit spreads reduced sales and trading net revenues by $0.9 billion (fixed income: $0.6 billion, equity: $0.2 billion, other: $0.1 billion), compared with a reduction in the second quarter of $2.3 billion (fixed income: $1.3 billion, equity: $0.8 billion, other: $0.2 billion).
3 For the quarter ended September 30, 2008, sales and trading net revenues included a gain of $9.7 billion (fixed income: $5.3 billion, equity: $3.7 billion, other: $0.7 billion) related to the deterioration in debt-related credit spreads.
4 In December 2008, the Board of Directors approved a change in the Firm’s fiscal year end from November 30th to December 31st of each year. As a result of this change, the Company previously recast all quarters of 2008 on a calendar year basis.
5 Includes preferred dividends and related adjustments, which reduced earnings per diluted common share.
6 Source: Thomson Reuters – for the period of January 1, 2009 to September 30, 2009.
7 The Core business includes traditional, hedge funds and fund of funds asset management.
8 The Company owns 51 percent of MSSB, which is consolidated. The results related to the 49 percent interest retained by Citigroup Inc. are reported in the net income / (loss) applicable to non-controlling interests on page 8 of the Company’s financial supplement that accompanies this release.
9 In the current quarter, Morgan Stanley consolidated certain real estate funds. The limited partnership interests in these funds are reported in net income / (loss) applicable to non-controlling interests on page 10 of the Company’s financial supplement accompanying this release.
10 Effective March 31, 2009, the Company calculated its Tier 1 capital ratio and Tier 1 common ratio in accordance with the capital adequacy standards for bank holding companies adopted by the Federal Reserve Board. These standards are based upon a framework described in the International Convergence of Capital Measurement, dated July 1988, as amended, also referred to as “Basel I.” These computations are preliminary estimates as of October 21, 2009 (the date of this release) and could be subject to revision in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009.