Joseph C Costa

CRD 54813 · Morgan Stanley · Paramus, NJ

IA RegisteredBroker

Also appears in the source record as: Joseph Charles Costa

Registration & licensing

As recorded in SEC IAPD / FINRA BrokerCheck

Broker-dealer registration: Active
Investment adviser registration: Active
Exams passed (11): Series 63Series 53Series 12Series 24Series 4Series 7TOSIESeries 15Series 5PCSeries 1
Registered states (34): Alabama · Arizona · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · District Of Columbia · Florida · Georgia · Idaho · Illinois · Kansas · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Montana · Nebraska · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Vermont · Virginia · Washington
Years in the industry (source record): 52
Professional designations: Not yet retrieved from the source record

Disclosures

Copied from the official record

The official record for CRD 54813 contains one or more disclosure events as of Aug 20, 2026.

findmyFA.app does not reproduce, summarise, characterise, or interpret the content of disclosure events. A disclosure event is a category of entry in a regulatory record; it is not, by itself, a finding of wrongdoing. Read the events in full on the official systems:

FINRA BrokerCheck ↗ · SEC IAPD ↗

Current firm

From the firm record

Firm: Morgan Stanley
Firm CRD: 149777
SEC number: 801-70103
Assets under management: $2.0T as of Jun 30, 2026
Website: www.morganstanley.com ↗
Phone: 914-225-5510
Firm location: Purchase, NY, 10577-2530

Employment history (6)

From the source registration record · current first

Morgan StanleyCurrent
Paramus, NJ · IA capacity

Aug 26, 2011 → present
Ubs Financial Services Inc.
IA capacity

Jun 20, 2002 → Sep 20, 2011
Ubs Financial Services Inc.
BD capacity

Jan 31, 1980 → Sep 20, 2011
E. F. Hutton & Company Inc
BD capacity

Oct 26, 1977 → Dec 22, 1987
Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Incorporated
BD capacity

Dec 27, 1978 → Jan 31, 1980
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.
BD capacity

Mar 8, 1974 → Nov 17, 1977

Source & corrections

Where this page comes from

Advisor registration data on this site is reproduced from the SEC's Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) system and FINRA's BrokerCheck. Those systems are the official records; this site is not. We do not alter the factual content of the records we reproduce.

SEC IAPD record for CRD 54813 ↗ FINRA BrokerCheck record for CRD 54813 ↗ BrokerCheck Terms of Use ↗ Report a data error on this page →

Data compiled Aug 20, 2026. Source: IAPD_SEARCH. Your use of BrokerCheck data reproduced here is subject to FINRA's Terms of Use.

Preview release — partial coverage. This is a public-records lookup tool, not investment advice, not a recommendation, and not an endorsement of any advisor. Registration status shown here is a copy of a government record and may be out of date; always confirm against SEC IAPD and FINRA BrokerCheck before acting.