It's obvious: Traditional brokers are middlemen on the verge of extinction. "You can add that to the long list of things he was wrong about." "We're betting on ourselves," says a confident woman in another ad. "My broker said, 'You're gonna hate online trading,'" says one man in an ad for e-brokers. With a significant nationwide presence, and operating as PaineWebber Group Inc., by late 2000 PaineWebber had emerged as the fourth largest private client firm in the United States with 385 offices employing 8554 stockbrokers.(FORTUNE Magazine) – To watch the television ads for online brokerages like E*Trade and Ameritrade, you would think human brokers were overpriced, arrogant, and dumb. Founded in 1865, Kidder, Peabody had been a preeminent player in investment banking and private services before becoming embroiled in insider trading scandals in the 1980s and suffering major trading losses in 1994. In 1995 PaineWebber completed the acquisition of the brokerage and investment banking firm Kidder, Peabody & Co. In 1986, the firm opened a new technology and transaction processing operation at Lincoln Harbor in New Jersey. At the time, the illuminated name on the building (today UBS) was unique among investment banks, and the building hosted a ground floor gallery of art exhibitions. PaineWebber became a visible presence on Sixth Avenue. PaineWebber moved its headquarters from 140 Broadway to 1285 Avenue of the Americas in midtown in 1985. was established as the parent holding company. The company would consolidate its two divisions, Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis and Blyth Eastman Paine Webber Inc., to form PaineWebber Inc. in 1983 PaineWebber had developed a national distribution network and with its active advertising campaign "Thank You PaineWebber" developed its brand throughout the 1980s. With the acquisition of Rotan Mosle Financial Corp. 1980sīy 1980 PaineWebber had 161 branch offices in 42 states and six offices in Asia and Europe. The acquisition added more than 70 branch offices and more than 700 professionals in addition to a strong investment banking business. in 1972, itself the product of the 1956 merger of Union Securities (formerly the investment banking division of J. which had merged with Eastman Dillon Union Securities & Co. Among its predecessor firms were Blyth & Co. Two years later, in 1979, the company acquired Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co., which itself was the product of a number of mergers. Mitchell Hutchins, which traced its roots to 1919 had evolved to become one of America's leading equity research boutiques. In 1977, the firm acquired investment research and advisory firm Mitchell Hutchins. PaineWebber also acquired Abbott, Proctor & Paine in 1970, the Abacus Fund, a closed-end investment company in 1972, Mitchum, Jones & Templeton Inc. Smithers & Co., providing its first a presence in fixed income. As was the case for many firms, PaineWebber engaged in a number of acquisitions in the 1970s, as a wave of consolidation spread through the industry. In 1974, the firm completed an initial public offering of the stock of its holding company, PaineWebber Inc., and listed the company on the New York Stock Exchange. The firm's holding company was incorporated on Jas PaineWebber Inc., of which Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis was its main subsidiary. The firm moved its headquarters from Boston to New York in 1963. With its greater combined asset base Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis had become a significant participant in the New England financial market. The combined firm, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, operated a combined total of 22 branch offices. In July 1879, Charles Cabot Jackson and Laurence Curtis had founded their brokerage firm Jackson & Curtis on Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts not far from the original Paine Webber offices. Ward Paine became head of the firm, a position he held until 1940.įollowing the difficult years of the Great Depression, Paine Webber merged with Jackson & Curtis, another Boston-based brokerage firm in June 1942. Paine died just weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. After nearly fifty years at the head of the company, W.A. entered the investment banking business in the 1920s. Paine entered into a partnership with Copper Range Company and Copper Range Railroad, controlled by John Stanton.Ĭontrolled by the Paine family, Paine, Webber & Co. The firm would purchase a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1890. Paine to the partnership, the firm was renamed, Paine, Webber & Co. Webber founded Paine & Webber as a brokerage firm in Boston, Massachusetts with a seat on the Boston Stock Exchange. In May 1881, William Alfred (W.A.) Paine and Wallace G.
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