I forwarded a PDF of the Morgan Stanley “creepy” letter (below) to my financial advisors and very quickly received a phone call. They’d checked it out on their end and apparently the letter had been mistakenly sent out… what’s more, the person whom the letter was purportedly from (and signed by) is no longer working at MSDW. (I didn’t have the nerve to ask what “no longer working at” meant.)

They’re still looking into how the letter got sent out at all… since the subject matter (MSDW’s change of name and logo) is also old news. Presumably some computer glitch caused the letter to be dated, printed, and automatically mailed. Weird, but I guess these kinds of things do happen…