Helping Deal with the Challenges of Self-Made Wealth

You’ve made it. Your hard work and sacrifices have provided you and your family with the type of wealth you’d dreamed of when you first began pursuing your goals. You now have the resources to enhance your life today and build for your future. However your success isn’t without challenges.

For more than 25 years I have helped people like you reach your goals for today and protect your dreams for tomorrow. My experience provides the planning and investment know-how to help you make the most efficient use of your money as possible, to help you protect your family and to assist you in your philanthropic efforts. I’m also able to draw on the expertise and resources of Morgan Stanley to help meet your unique borrowing, insurance and lifestyle needs. My personal background also helps me understand where you came from, where you are and where you want to be in the future.

I grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Winning an academic scholarship to Ohio State and then landing an internship at Key Bank inspired me to study business and finance. I earned a bachelor’s degree in business and went on to receive an M.B.A. from Franklin University. After beginning my career in banking, I moved to Merrill Lynch and then Huntington Financial Advisors. I joined Morgan Stanley in 2023. I hold both the Certified Financial Planner™ and Chartered Financial Consultant credentials giving me the training to address the planning, investing and insurance needs of both individuals and businesses. Giving back is central to my values, so I’m an active board member in a number of local organizations that work with at-risk youth. My wife is an anesthesiologist and an Associate dean of Ohio State’s Medical School. We live just outside Columbus with our two daughters.

Please reach out so we can schedule either an in-person or Zoom meeting to discuss how I can help preserve and grow your wealth today and protect your family’s future.
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Morgan Stanley Global Sports & Entertainment is a specialized wealth management division of Morgan Stanley that focuses exclusively on addressing the unique needs of top professionals like you, in the sports and entertainment industry.

As a Global Sports and Entertainment Director, Chay has the dedicated experience, continuing education and access to world-class resources needed to understand the complexities and pressures facing high-achieving professionals in the sports and entertainment industries, and to help them make smart choices about how they save, spend, invest, borrow, preserve and give.

Chay focuses on working with established and emerging players/coaches in professional sports as well as sports industry executives. Working exclusively in sports and entertainment, Chay understands the unique demands that come with a player, coach or industry executive. His experience understanding schedules, variability of income, and the demands that come from life inside and outside of the sports profession, enables Chay the ability to tap into a range of resources needed to address the unique immediate financial challenges, and to create comprehensive plans to help reach their long-term goals.
You're Unique and We Know Why
There’s nothing common about you—not your talent, your drive, your achievements or even your challenges. From your variable income streams to your taxes, from your obligations to your aspirations, “typical” is not part of your vocabulary. You need distinctive financial strategies that can match your lifestyle and career trajectory.
Concentrated Experience in Capable Hands
Morgan Stanley Global Sports & Entertainment was developed to respond to the specific needs of sports and entertainment professionals at every stage of their careers. Chay understands your unique financial opportunities and challenges. He knows how money flows from your work to your wallet and live in your world, day in, day out, crafting innovative financial strategies as their chosen career.
Tailored Advice to Help Meet Your Life's Goals
You can leverage the vast resources of Morgan Stanley, one of the world’s largest and most respected wealth management firms, to address any objective, from helping build and preserve wealth, start a philanthropic foundation, expand your brand. Whatever aspirations you have for yourself, your family and your community, Chay can present strategies, products and services customized to help you reach your goals, your way.
Embrace the Power of Team
You have a handful of people who have supported you, encouraged you and watched your back. Chay routinely works in partnership with other trusted advisors to guide financial decision-making. He supports and respects your personal confidants, combining his strengths to help bring you greater success.
We're Changing the Narrative
The media is filled with stories of successful athletes and entertainers who have surprising financial setbacks. Chay is committed to changing that storyline. He's developed financial education programs for sports and entertainment veterans and emerging talents, including collegiate athletes, to help them avoid common mishaps. It’s part of his mission to give back to the community and provide sports and entertainment professionals the skills to help make smart choices around their finances and wealth.

Using Your Income to Potentially Grow Your Wealth

It took more than just brains. Years of study, student loans, and sleep deprivation have paid off. Healing was always the goal, not an exceptional income. That welcome unintended result has come with countless benefits, along with some side effects.

A very comfortable income early in your career may have enabled you to get by without having to gain expertise in personal or business finance. However, as a physician you understand the importance of specialized training and experience. My mission is to lend you my training and experience to ensure that your stream of income lasts as long as possible and is used efficiently and effectively to help grow your wealth for the future. Our goal is to provide you and your family with options as you near retirement age, ranging from practicing for as long as you'd like to selling your practice and devoting yourself to other interests and pursuits.

Solutions We May Consider:

  • Student loan repayment strategies
  • Malpractice insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Employment contracts
  • Supplemental IRAs and Roth IRAs
  • Alternative investments
  • Analysis of investment proposals
  • Complete or partial sale of practice

Helping Overcome the Obstacle of Illiquid Wealth

Whether you became an entrepreneur early on or turned to it as a second act after another successful career, you've likely been pouring most of your time and energy into growing the business. At some point you may find much of your wealth concentrated and illiquid, tied up in the value of your business.

In order to prepare for launching another business, your own retirement, or your family's future, there may come a time when you'll need to tap into the wealth you've built through your business. That can also mean developing succession plans that may involve family dynamics as well as finances.

As an advisor to you and your family I'll be striving to help you balance your personal interests and the business's interests. We'll be looking to maximize the wealth you're able to draw from the business while helping minimize the tax ramifications. We'll also be trying to determine whether the business should remain in the family or be sold to outside parties or perhaps employees.

Solutions we may consider:

  • Key Man insurance
  • Family discussions of management and ownership transition
  • Grantor retained annuity trusts
  • Intentionally defective grantor trusts
  • Inter family loans and self-canceling installment notes
  • Employee stock ownership plans
  • IPO, LBO other sale to private equity investor
  • Sale to a strategic acquirer

Repaying your community’s support

I believe that those of us who have achieved success should give back to our communities both through our time and our donations.

Having benefited from scholarships and internships, I'm called to do what I can to help at-risk youth and families. I'm currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Buckeye Ranch, one of our county's leading providers of emotional, behavioral and mental health services for children, young adults and families. I'm Vice-Chair of the Board of Community for New Direction, which is dedicated to preventing the youthful use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, as well as violence by youth in our communities. Most recently I've joined the Board of Trustees of St. Stephen's Community House, which provides health care and nutrition to families at risk.

Most of my clients share my drive to repay their communities for the support they received early in their lives. Drawing on my own experiences and my planning training, I'm able to help them manage their own philanthropic efforts and pass along the blessings of charitable giving to their family members.

Solutions we may consider:
  • Investing with impact
  • Philanthropy management
  • Maximizing the impact of contributions
  • Charity research and analysis
  • Foundation strategies
  • Grant-making strategies
  • Board development
  • Legacy planning

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By partnering with experienced individuals across wealth disciplines, Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors can align specialized resources with your custom needs and deliver strategic guidance through the familiarity and trust of existing relationships

About Kimberly Emerson

Kimberly Emerson is a Private Banker serving Morgan Stanley Wealth Management offices in Ohio.

Private Bankers partner with Financial Advisors to develop a specialized approach for managing clients’ cash flow, liquidity and financing needs, leveraging our comprehensive suite of cash management and lending solutions.

Kimberly began her career in financial services in 2001, and joined Morgan Stanley in 2015. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Private Banking Relationship Manager at FC Bank. Kimberly has also been a Wealth Management Banker at Merrill Lynch, as well as a Private Banking Relationship Manager at Fifth Third and KeyBank.

Kimberly is a graduate of Ohio Dominican University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. She and her family reside in Blacklick, Ohio. Outside of the office, Kimberly enjoys sporting events, concerts, and spending time with her family.
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About Kimberly Nute Jones

Kimberly is a Vice President and Financial Planning Director serving Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management offices in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. She is responsible for helping Financial Advisors with their clients' and prospects' financial planning needs.

Kimberly began her career in financial services in 1991 and joined Morgan Stanley in 2012. Prior to her current role, Kimberly was a Senior Executive Financial Planner at Goldman Sachs Ayco in Deerfield, Illinois and an Associate Vice President and Financial Advisor in Morgan Stanley’s Oak Brook Illinois complex. Kimberly currently serves on Morgan Stanley’s Great Lakes Region Diversity Council and is a member of several firm-led affinity groups. She is an active member of Women Investment Professionals (WIP), and the Association of African American Financial Advisors (Quad A).

Kimberly currently serves on the Museum of Science and Industry’s Black Creativity Advisory Council, sit on various national and local committees for the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and plans events for Go Fish NFP, a nonprofit organization started by her children.

Kimberly earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Financial Counseling and Planning from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Master's degree in Education with distinction from Saint Xavier University in Chicago, and Certified Financial Planning certificate program from Northwestern University School of Professional Studies, Evanston, Illinois. She currently holds her Certified Financial Planner® designation. Kimberly lives in Flossmoor, Illinois with her husband, two children and their dog. In her spare time, Kimberly enjoys doing genealogical research and traveling with her family and friends.
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Wealth Management for Athletes and Entertainers

Understanding the unique financial challenges of athletes and entertainers and how they differ from one profession to the next, we deliver the experience and resources you need to help create and implement a comprehensive, multigenerational wealth management plan based on your needs, values and aspirations.
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Ready to start a conversation? Contact Chay Rankin, M.B.A. today.
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