Our Story and Services

"As your Financial Advisors, we can help you define and strive to meet your goals by delivering a vast array of resources to you in the way that is most appropriate for how you invest and what you want to achieve. Working together we can help you to preserve and grow your wealth. You’ll have access to some of the world’s most seasoned and respected investment professionals, a premier trading and execution platform and a full spectrum of investment choices."
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We believe effective wealth management benefits from deep experience, specialized skills and an integrated approach—tailored to each client’s goals and circumstances.

Our team brings experience across wealth management and broader financial markets. We built our practice around four core areas:
investment advice, financial planning, tax-aware investing considerations and balance-sheet strategy. While each area is valuable on its own, we believe integrating them can help create a more coordinated strategy.

At Morgan Stanley, we can draw on a broad platform of resources and specialists—across investments (including alternative investments for eligible investors), planning, risk management/insurance, and trust, estate and philanthropic planning support—in coordination with your tax and legal advisors. In addition, Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Manager Analysis (GIMA) team evaluates and monitors certain investment products for use in applicable advisory programs.

We also consider both sides of the balance sheet. Where appropriate, we can evaluate cash management and lending solutions, including access to resources through Morgan Stanley Private Bank.

At Morgan Stanley, we value the comprehensive nature of our clients' relationships with us and offer Relationship-Based Pricing. This approach considers the entirety of a client's engagement with us, including advisory relationships and lending situations, rather than evaluating a loan request in isolation. Our aim is to provide a holistic experience that acknowledges our clients' overall involvement while adhering to appropriate risk standards.

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    Home Loans

    Morgan Stanley home loans can be used to support a wide range of residential financing needs, including the purchase of a primary residence or second home, refinancing an existing mortgage, or accessing home equity for qualified purposes. In many cases, clients explore home lending as part of a broader wealth plan—aligning monthly cash-flow needs, liquidity preferences, and longer-term balance sheet goals. Home lending may also be relevant when a client is relocating, transitioning between homes, or seeking to structure financing while keeping investment assets positioned for long-term objectives.

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    Securities Based Lines of Credit

    We offer Liquidity Access Lines (LAL) to provide borrowing capacity from eligible assets, which may help avoid the need to liquidate investments. Clients might consider using an LAL for short-term liquidity needs, major planned expenses such as taxes, capital call commitments, or large purchases, and situations where speed and flexibility are important, like making cash offers on homes in competitive markets. For executives with concentrated or restricted stock/options, an LAL can serve as a versatile tool. It may also be used for business-related needs, such as providing working capital or managing cash-flow variability, subject to eligibility and underwriting.

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    A Bespoke Approach

    Tailored Lending is designed to address complex borrowing needs where a standard structure may not be suitable. This approach can involve customized terms, structures, and collateral solutions that consider a client's overall financial situation, potentially including multiple asset types, unique liquidity events, concentrated positions, or sophisticated cash-flow planning. Tailored solutions might be used to fund capital facilities, provide access to capital markets, finance significant purchases, support strategic investments, or facilitate estate or tax planning strategies. These solutions are often utilized in ultra-high-net-worth or institutional client scenarios where the scale and complexity of assets require customized structuring.

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    Honoring Your Family's Commitment To Us

    At Morgan Stanley, we value the comprehensive nature of our clients' relationships and offer Relationship-Based Pricing. This approach considers the entirety of a client's engagement with us, including advisory relationships and lending situations, rather than evaluating a loan request in isolation. Our aim is to provide a holistic experience that acknowledges our clients' overall involvement while adhering to appropriate risk standards.

Executives and senior leaders often face complex financial decisions that benefit from strategic planning—such as managing tax considerations, liquidity needs, concentrated equity/compensation positions and legacy planning. We help by developing a coordinated strategy and implementing solutions across your portfolio and balance sheet, including tax-aware investing considerations, cash management and lending solutions (as appropriate), insurance/risk management reviews with specialists, and trust & estate and philanthropic planning support—in close coordination with your tax and legal advisors.

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    Cash Management Services

    In addition to your Financial Advisors, our Client Service Team is here to help with day-to-day servicing needs—including time-sensitive money movement. For clients who invest in private fund structures, that can include coordinating timely funding needs, such as capital calls. We can help you use tools like Morgan Stanley Online and Mobile, along with available cash management services (e.g., ACH and wires), so you have convenient access to your accounts and the ability to move money—supported by a dedicated team member.

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    Lending Needs

    The RWB Group works with clients whose net worth may be concentrated in less liquid assets—such as low cost-basis stock, alternative investments, closely held business interests, or collectible assets. When liquidity needs arise (for example, tax payments, insurance planning needs, or major purchases), we can evaluate cash-flow and liquidity strategies, which may include lending solutions and, where appropriate, Morgan Stanley Private Bank resources. Borrowing against eligible collateral can help to provide liquidity and flexibility be appropriate for everyone.

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    Trust and Estate Resources

    Preserving multi-generational wealth often starts with a thoughtful trust and estate plan. While we don't provide legal or tax advice, we can help you get organized, identify key planning considerations, and coordinate with your attorney and tax advisor so your time with them is as productive as possible. We can also review your overall balance sheet—including equity compensation/stock plan holdings and other concentrated positions—to help inform wealth transfer and gifting conversations with your advisors, consistent with your goals.

Location

850 Morrison Drive
Ste 800
Charleston, SC 29403
US
Direct:
(843) 727-7700(843) 727-7700

Meet The RWB Group

About Jessica Bellamy

Jessica Bellamy is a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley, joining the firm first in 1997 with Institutional Sales and Trading Fixed Income in New York City, where she worked on new issue syndicate for Mortgage Backed, Asset Backed and other Real Estate Debt Capital Markets. In 2004 she moved to the Derivatives Product Group at BNP Paribas working with SPV and Corporate Bond issuers to hedge inherent asset risk from loan portfolios. She rejoined Morgan Stanley as a Financial Advisor after a trip around the world between 2009-2010 and a move to Charleston.

Jessica graduated from the University of Virginia with a concentration in Government (Constitutional Law), Economics and Anthropology. She earned a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of the CFA® Society of South Carolina. Aside from extensive travel, Jessica is an avid outdoors person, loves gardening, historic home renovation, and has recently learned to play the guitar during Covid. She spends time between her homes in Charleston, SC and Brooklyn, NY and a remote cabin in upstate NY.
Securities Agent: TN, NH, MD, AZ, AR, ME, CA, KY, GA, NJ, DC, SC, OR, KS, VT, PR, PA, MN, IN, IL, DE, CO, FL, WA, VA, NM, NC, UT, OH, NY, MS, MA, CT, AL, WY, WI, MO, MI, WV, TX; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1430997

About Will Rogers

Will Rogers is a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley responsible for covering ultra-high net
worth families with an emphasis in serving the unique needs of investment managers, finance
professionals, and institutional clients. A native of West Columbia, South Carolina, Will
attended Clemson University where he double majored in Speech & Communications, and
Psychology. A member of the Clemson Swimming Team, he earned 1st Team, All-ACC honors;
and competed in the 2000 US Olympic Trials. Upon graduation in 2001 he became a U.S. Navy
SEAL, receiving a Bronze Star among other awards during three overseas deployments.
Following his Naval service, Will attended Columbia Business School in New York where he
earned his MBA in 2010. Will subsequently headed sales for the Financing Desk within the
Global Credit Products Division of Credit Suisse where he covered private equity and hedge fund
clients before ultimately joining Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in 2016.

Outside of his professional responsibilities, Will is passionate about travelling around the United
States with his wife, Karen, and their two children, Sabo (12) and Scout (10). As active
‘Recreation Vehicle Enthusiasts’, they have visited 43 National Parks across 40+ states since 2020.
Securities Agent: VT, WV, OH, SD, MD, TN, MS, IN, ID, AZ, SC, NH, MA, IL, GA, FL, DC, WY, UT, TX, KY, PA, MI, NV, AL, WA, PR, NM, MN, KS, CT, VA, OR, NJ, MT, CO, AR, NY, ME, WI, NC, MO, DE, CA; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1605677

About Taylor Wootton

Taylor Wootton is a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley in Charleston, South Carolina, joining the firm in 2017. His entire career has been within the wealth management industry, advising endowments, corporations, retirement plans and individuals on all aspects of their balance sheet – investments, credit lines, cash management and trust & estate planning strategies. Taylor is dedicated to the priorities of the clients he covers and provides personalized wealth management strategies to help achieve their financial objectives.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, he spent six years with the J.P. Morgan Private Bank in New York City, working with many of the most prominent families in the region. He brings an institutional approach to the investment management process and a high level of service to all of his clients. Taylor earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of the CFA® Society of South Carolina. He graduated with a BS in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, where he concentrated in both finance and accounting.

When he is not in the office or with clients, Taylor loves being active outside. Some of his favorite activities are surfing, swimming, fishing, tennis, golf, and trying new restaurants with his wife, Christie. They live in Mt. Pleasant with their two daughters, Claire and Lily, and son, Quinn.
Securities Agent: OH, MO, MD, FL, CA, NY, NV, NJ, KS, AL, WI, VT, TN, PA, NC, KY, IL, DE, AR, WA, NM, MS, WY, MN, MI, WV, SC, PR, ME, IN, GA, AZ, VA, OR, MA, DC, CT, CO, TX, UT, NH; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1696798
Wealth Management
Global Investment Office

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