Morgan Stanley at Work, the wirehouse’s workplace solutions provider, has acquired American Financial Systems, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based firm that specializes in nonqualified executive benefit plans.
The acquisition is expected to close in the fall; the terms were not disclosed.
Adding American Financial Systems’ expertise in executive benefit plans to the financial giant’s already diverse offering “creates a powerful value proposition for plan sponsors and their participants,” Morgan Stanley said in a release.
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