Global Firm, Local Team

As the financial world becomes more complex and investment choices multiply, careful planning becomes ever more important to helping you achieve your financial goals. As Financial Advisors, our role is to work with you to help you develop a strategy that lays out a clear path to your goals — a strategy that we develop in collaboration with you, and one that you can follow with confidence in the face of the market's ups and downs.

Together, we will explore your aspirations and the life you envision. We will work with you to translate your goals into a specific investment objective and personalized investment strategy. And then, drawing on the team's experience — and perspective informed by the insight and resources of one of the world's largest financial firms — we will structure a portfolio for you, executing and refining that strategy to help bring you closer to your definition of investment success.

Our clients include individuals, couples and families located across the country, with a majority concentrated in Florida. We work with current and retired corporate C-suite executives, professional athletes, entrepreneurs and business owners. We have assisted several clients who have started, built and then sold companies, or taken them public. We also work with a number of Nonprofit organizations, Foundations, and Corporate Retirement Plans in helping them achieve their goals.

When you look at wealth management from a long‐term perspective, one thing becomes clear: it's your future, not just your money. And over time, we can help you navigate the noise and distractions of challenging markets, providing a disciplined sense of focus on what's most important — your progress toward your goals.

Why Choose The Calleja Group?

  • We promise to accept only those clients whom we can properly service.
  • We see the value in having authentic interactions and strong relationships with our clients.
  • As stewards of our client's wealth, and legacy, it is our honor to safeguard their assets.
  • We strive to build bonds that extend beyond the business setting.
  • We offer the most relevant and effective strategies for our clients and their families.
  • Our team is open, honest, and demonstrates mutual respect and honor.
  • We realize that what we create must be built on a foundation of integrity, open communication, and trust.
Services Include
Securities Agent: MA, AL, WV, WY, WI, VI, KS, FL, AZ, MI, IN, CA, AR, AK, TN, OK, NM, ND, MO, LA, IL, PR, NJ, NC, CO, VA, TX, RI, PA, OR, MT, MS, IA, DC, SD, SC, MD, HI, WA, VT, UT, NY, NV, NH, NE, ME, KY, GA, DE, CT, ID, OH, MN; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 641775
CA Insurance License #: 4178906
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Working with the right team is a very important decision that can give you more confidence today and a more secure future. One of the vital roles in our relationship is listening carefully to your vision of the future and guiding you to make that vision a reality.

OUR PROCESS

Our Commitment to our Clients is founded on Five Principles:

CONFIDENCE - In a business that has navigated nearly 80 years of market cycles

ACCESS – to Morgan Stanley's brightest people and best resources

FOCUS – An exclusive focus on High Net Worth & Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, Families, and Foundations

INSIGHT – Objective solutions for your family's needs that reflect our insight into the complex financial world

PERSONAL SERVICE – The highest levels of Personal Service by serving a limited number of clients per Advisor

Extensive Capabilities
Our world-class talent and global resources are among the most sophisticated and extensive available. The Calleja Group uses rigorous analytical tools and models to create customized solutions based on the complex needs of each family, endowment or foundation.
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    Discovery
    We take the time to fully understand you and your family - whether you're planning for retirement, purchasing a home, or living out your golden years - we consider various challenges, goals, and aspirations when building your financial picture.
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    Forming Your Strategy
    Using your life goals as our compass, we create a risk-balanced strategy which maps a clear path to helping achieve your success.
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    Implementing Your Plan
    We apply extensive research and analysis, and also utilize Morgan Stanley's full suite of resources, to ensure swift decisive action in various market scenarios.
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    Measuring Your Success
    We check in with you to deliver metrics around your portfolio, and ultimately measure trajectory towards your goals. Our ultimate mission is your success and well-being.
The Calleja Group is proud to work with a number of Nonprofit organizations and foundations. Please see below for just some of the many organizations the team has participated in
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    Youth Haven
    Youth Haven was established to fulfill an immediate need for emergency shelter for children who have been removed suddenly from a traumatic home situation. A group of caring local individuals worked together with law enforcement and community partners to create a safe space for each of these children in need.
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    Naples Players
    The Naples Players continually seeks to enrich, educate, and entertain the community through a superior theatre experience. TNP is a premier community theatre, seeking to inspire passion for the performing arts through unparalleled access to the process, experience, and conversations surrounding the arts and the community.
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    Golisano Children's Museum of Naples
    A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization founded in 2002, the Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples (CMON) is a brain-building powerhouse and Southwest Florida’s first museum devoted to children and families. This safe and wonderful place inspires children and families to have fun while learning together.
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    American Cancer Society
    The American Cancer Society is a leading cancer-fighting organization with a vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. They strive to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families as the only organization combating cancer through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. 
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    Shelter for Abused Women & Children
    The Shelter's mission is to lead and collaborate with the community to prevent, protect and prevail over domestic violence and human trafficking. Based in Naples, Collier County, FL, USA, The Shelter operates a 24-hour Crisis Line, two 60-bed emergency shelters (Naples and Immokalee, FL) and nine Transitional Living cottages in Collier County, FL. All in-house and outreach programs and services, training and education are provided free of charge.
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    Opera Naples
    Their mission is to be a professional opera company known for excellence and innovation by presenting quality opera, musical performances, education, and community engagement programs
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    Gulfshore Playhouse
    Gulfshore Playhouse is passionately committed to enriching the cultural landscape of the region by producing professional theatre to the highest artistic standards and providing unique educational opportunities to diverse groups of people in a spirit of service, adventure, and excitement. Their work is inspired by a belief in the magic of theatre to expand the imagination, challenge the senses, provoke discussion, and revitalize in the audience an understanding of our common humanity. This belief drives the care with which they treat artists, audiences, students, staff, and members of the greater community.
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    Guadalupe Center
    The Guadalupe Center is a purpose driven non-profit organization that exists to create possibilities through education for the students of Immokalee fostering personal and academic success leading to economic independence.
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    Multiple Sclerosis Center of Southwest Florida
    The MS Center is a community center that provides valuable resources to individuals, and their families, who are affected by multiple sclerosis. The center’s goals are to reduce isolation, improve mobility, and reduce the risk of poor outcomes related to daily living.
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    Naples Ballet
    Naples Ballet and Company is a 501(c), nonprofit organization dedicated to setting new standards for artistic excellence and promoting cultural enrichment by creating awareness of the art of dance within the Naples community. Their mission is to provide dancers of all ages with professional dance instruction and performance opportunities.
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    Naples Botanical Gardens
    Naples Botanical Garden conserves the plants and habitats of the tropics, cultivates beauty, offers knowledge, and inspires the protection of nature.
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    PACE Center for Girls
    Pace is one of the only multi-state gender-responsive, trauma-informed, and strength-based models for girls in the country, with a proven evidence base. Dedicated to changing the lives of girls through the development of critical life, health and mental health, and academic skills, Pace has a successful and proven program model that has changed the life trajectory of more than 40,000 girls and is recognized as one of the nation’s leading advocates for girls.
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    Humane Society Naples
    Humane Society Naples is an independent nonprofit serving the public by providing care, shelter and placement into loving homes for orphaned animals in the Collier County area through pet adoptions. They never place a time limit on how long dogs, cats and other pets stay at their shelter.
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    Jingled Elves
    Jingled Elves, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization providing funds to charitable organizations focused on improving the lives of women and children in Collier County, Florida.
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    Women Enabled Enterprises
    WEE is a non-profit organization helping low income, high potential women in Africa start or grow a micro business for self-sufficiency. Ana Munro is on the Board of Directors and provides ongoing support to WEE's mission.
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    Compassion International
    Through a holistic approach to child development, Compassion reaches children nationally and internationally to help release them from poverty.

    The organization has a holistic approach as it blends physical, social, economic and spiritual care together.

    Ana Munro has been a sponsor for several years.

    Juan Ocanas has also been a sponsor of Compassion International for more than seven years.
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    Girls Who Invest
    This organization's primary mission is to bring more women into portfolio management and leadership roles. Their approach is inclusive: education, mentoring, internships and a supportive community.
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    GFWC - General Federation of Women's Clubs
    The GFWC's local chapter is the Naples Woman’s Club, a non-profit organization working to enhance the lives of others through philanthropic activities and volunteer service. Ana Munro serves as Sponsorship Chair and is a member of the Empowering Women Committee. Notable members of the GFWC include Sandra Day O'Connor (first woman Supreme Court Justice), Ellen Ochoa (first Hispanic woman astronaut to orbit space), Michelle Wie West (youngest woman to qualify for the LPGA), and Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (Naval Admiral who developed the Cobol programming language).
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    Parkinson’s Association of Southwest Florida
    Parkinson’s disease affects some of our team members’ families as well as a number of our clients and their loved ones. The Parkinson’s Association of SWFL is a vital organization to improve the quality of life of those affected by Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. They offer a variety of programs to educate, enrich and empower those affected. We are proud supporters of their important mission.
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    Charity Navigator
    Charity Navigator is a growing database of nonprofits who are unbiasedly rated based on a research tool that includes data from the IRA, other partners and the charities themselves. Donors who are looking to make a difference can look up their non-profit to learn more in a transparent way. Ana Munro and The Calleja Group are partners who volunteer to educate about giving with impact, teaching kids to give, as well a variety of charitable giving strategies to maximize the benefits of giving.
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    American Heart Association
    Ana Munro and The Calleja Group are proud supporters of Go Red for Women, an initiative whose mission is to bring awareness about prevention and warning signs of cardiovascular disease, the number 1 killer of women - causing 1 in 3 deaths each year.

Planning For Your Family's Financial Needs

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    Philanthropic Planning
    Many of us prefer to combine our support for the causes and people we care about with a desire to save on taxes. Fortunately, there are strategies that may help us accomplish both. Whether you want to donate to charity or invest in a loved-one’s future, consider these tax‐smart ways to help make your giving go further.
    Charitable Giving
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    Tax, Trust, & Estate Planning
    With you every step of the way. The Calleja Group analyzes a client's tax and estate structures so that their tax characteristics are accurately incorporated in the asset allocation analysis performed for the client.
    View Our Overview
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    Alternative Asset Management
    Alternative assets are becoming increasingly important for individuals and companies to grow and generate profits.
    Alternative Assets
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    Family Governance
    Particularly in the case of an ultra high net worth family engaged in a common enterprise, such as running a family business, operating a family office, or simply investing together as a family, it's extremely important to have a sound framework within which to make decisions - in other words, a family governance system.
    Protecting Your Wealth
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    Signature Access
    A broad range of specialty services are available to enrich and enhance the health, safety, comfort, and interests of affluent families, from private aviation, personal security, art advisory, and household staffing, to private health advisory services and advisory services for single family offices.
    The Lifestyle Advisory Offering
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    Wealth Education
    Achieving your investment goals isn’t just about maximizing returns. Reducing tax liabilities in your portfolio can also play a key role in helping you build wealth over the long run. As you review your income and portfolio, consider these steps to help reduce taxes on your investments.
    How to Help Reduce Tax Liabilities

Alternative Investment Strategies

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    Concentrated Stock Management
    Concentrated positions can increase investment risk. The simplest way to reduce that risk is to diversify your portfolio. However, many investors may be unable or unwilling to sell their concentrated position. The Calleja Group works to develop hedging and monetization strategies on high net worth individual's concentrated stock positions, that allow these investors to generate additional income on these concentrated positions.
    Charitable Giving Overview
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    Commodity Management
    When a passion for collecting evolves into something of considerable value, a new set of considerations comes in to play. Hear what our panel has to say about collections as an investment class, including best practices and common pitfalls among collectors of fine art, antiques, classic cars, vintage wines and other stores of value that stir the passions.
    Art as an Investment Class
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    Insurance Solutions
    A sound wealth plan involves more than just seeking returns. It also involves mitigating and managing risks, helping to cushion you when the unexpected occurs. An insurance product can help you plan for and guard against life’s hidden curves – to help protect your assets and your family.
    Watch Our Video
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    Private Credit and Equity
    Private Credit investing is an essential component of Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s alternative investments platform. The Calleja Group manages a well-defined group of strategies and seek to deliver attractive returns to their investors by forging successful partnerships with their portfolio companies.
    Capital Seekers
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    Banking Solutions
    Morgan Stanley provides a full range of banking, lending, and cash management services for individuals and small businesses.
    Banking at the Speed of Light
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    Exchange Funds
    An exchange fund is a special-purpose vehicle that offers holders the ability to diversify their investments by exchanging stock positions, oftentimes in highly appreciated or restricted stock, for shares of a diversified portfolio. Contributions of appreciated stock to a properly structured exchange fund are not taxable under current federal tax law.
    An Important Alternative for your Asset Allocation

Client Service Team

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    Denise Axt - Wealth Management Associate
    Phone:
    (239) 449-7898(239) 449-7898
    Email:Denise.Axt@morganstanley.com
    Denise has worked within the financial services industry for over 14 years and has an Accounting degree from Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, she held positions in both Business Management and Advisory Compliance for the Futures & OTC Clearing business of HSBC. Prior to HSBC, Denise was an external auditor within the Audit & Assurance group of Deloitte. Denise and her family moved from New Jersey to Southwest Florida in 2022. In her free time she loves exploring all the parks, playgrounds, beaches and the beautiful Naples Zoo with her husband and two young sons.
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    Cris Lozano - Registered Client Service Associate
    Phone:
    (239) 449-7845(239) 449-7845
    Email:Cris.Lozano@morganstanley.com
    Cris comes to Morgan Stanley as a rehire, from the Oak Brook, Illinois Branch where she completed the Financial Advisor Associate program and discovered her true passion for Financial Services. Her experience coupled with her strategic vision compliments her role as a Registered Client Service Associate with The Calleja Group. Her career background prior to entering Financial Services includes 20+ years in various sectors of the real estate industry primarily in portfolio asset management and commercial leasing. The real estate industry gave Cris a deep appreciation for building relationships and helping individuals define and execute their goals. Cris has two adult children and one grandson. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, visiting Naples beaches, cooking, reading and outdoor activities.
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    Andrew Winnick - Registered Client Service Associate
    Phone:
    (239) 449-7896(239) 449-7896
    Email:Andrew.Winnick@morganstanley.com
    Andrew has 8 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Andrew was a Private Client Banker at JP Morgan Chase where he worked with clients to develop solutions and work towards their financial goals. Previous to JP Morgan Chase, Andrew was in Insurance Sales at Washington National. Andrew attended Southern Illinois University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting. Andrew moved to Florida from California in 2020. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, boating, and watching sports with friends.

WORKPLACE FINANCIAL BENEFITS WITH MORGAN STANLEY AT WORK

Our mission is to help your company elevate your workplace financial benefits—helping you to attract and retain top talent. Our end-to-end solutions support your company and employees at any stage of growth through a powerful combination of modern technology, insightful guidance, and dedicated service.

    Equity Solutions

    Equity ownership is a powerful motivator. Streamline equity management through our leading-edge technology and provide global audit-ready reporting and insights, alongside customizable participant experiences to engage and educate your employees on how to make the most of their benefits. Our global solutions support private and public companies at any stage of growth.

    • Equity Administration and Financial Reporting
    • Liquidity Events
    • 409A Valuation Services and Cap Table Management

    Learn more
    Retirement

    For your employees, retirement is more than a date in the future—it's a milestone that takes time, hard work, and the right tools. Through our consultative process, we strive to assist with the management of your fiduciary responsibilities and risk, simplify plan management, and help you improve retirement readiness for your employees.

    • Defined Contribution Consulting
    • Solutions-Oriented Plans
    • Fiduciary Investment Oversight

    Learn more
    Deferred Compensation

    Access a range of Nonqualified Deferred Compensation plan services or pick the ones that best fit your needs. We provide recordkeeping and plan design, portfolio construction services, and plan education for your executive talent. We help you determine the appropriate plan design and inform a funding strategy through a needs-based assessment and consultative approach.

    Services include:

    • Recordkeeping and Plan Design
    • Portfolio Construction
    • Wealth Management Services
    Learn more
    Executive Services

    Our dedicated team provides concierge-level support for your executives' equity compensation plans, from 10b5-1 trading plans to form filing related to Rule 144 transactions, to access to wealth management and tax-optimization strategies, so helping them navigate their complex financial needs with greater confidence and certainty:

    • Equity Compensation Services
    • Equity Award Analysis
    • Specialized Solutions
    Learn more
    Saving and Giving

    Saving and Giving benefits can make a real difference in your employees' lives as they can support the things that matter most to them—like saving for education and repaying student loans. Show that you are committed to your employees' priorities with leading-edge solutions that help them chart a path toward financial well-being.

    • College Savings
    • Student Loan Repayment and Refinancing
    • Charitable Giving
    Learn more
    Financial Wellness

    We offer Financial Wellness with every solution we provide. Through a powerful combination of education, digital tools and guidance, Financial Wellness is designed to address the unique needs of your employees and empower their financial journey at every stage. Give your employees the confidence to take charge of their finances.

    • Financial Education
    • Digital Tools
    • Financial Guidance

    Learn more

Location

8889 Pelican Bay Blvd
Ste 300
Naples, FL 34108
US
Direct:
(239) 449-7853(239) 449-7853
Toll-Free:
(800) 237-8686(800) 237-8686
Fax:
(239) 330-4484(239) 330-4484

The Power of Partnerships

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 Stacey Herring

Stacey Herring is a Private Banker serving Morgan Stanley Wealth Management offices in Florida.

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.

Stacey began her career in financial services in 1994, and joined Morgan Stanley in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Mortgage Sales Manager at SunTrust Bank and a Senior Mortgage Loan Officer for over 17 years at Fifth Third Bank. Stacey is a graduate of Florida State University, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing and a Minor in Communications.

Stacey currently serves on the Women’s Foundation of Collier County Board of Directors, as well as Junior Achievement of SWFL’s Advisory Board. In addition, Stacey has chaired many community endeavors, serving Naples Community Hospital, PACE Center for Girls of Collier County, and Youth Haven. She is a graduate of the Naples Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Collier program, awarded Gulfshore Business Magazine’s “40 Under 40 Award”, and in 2013 was awarded the Glass Slipper Award by The Education Foundation, Champions for Learning. In 2014, Stacey was named a Woman of Initiative by the Community Foundation of Collier County for her philanthropy, dedication, and commitment to children’s causes.
NMLS#: 434321

About Mark Jansen

Mark Jansen is a Family Office Resources Generalist for Morgan Stanley’s Family Office Resources, covering the Southeast Region. In this capacity, Mark provides specialized expertise to Financial Advisors and their UHNW clients across a broad range of family wealth management issues including; family governance and wealth education, strategic estate and financial planning, philanthropy management and lifestyle advisory. Mark has over 30 years of experience advising wealthy families, business owners, and their children.

Most recently, Mark worked with New York Life in their Advanced Planning Group working with agents and their UHNW clients advising them on estate and legacy planning, business buy sell planning, and succession planning. Prior to New York Life, Mark held similar Advanced Planning Consulting roles in several National financial organizations. He originally started his career in the financial services industry in the tax department of the public accounting firm Grant Thornton. He is known for taking complex ideas and making them easy to understand. Frequently speaking to groups and individuals on estate and business planning, he brings a conversational style that helps to clarify the complex nature of these topics.

Mark received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s University in Collegeville MN, received his JD degree Cum Laude from the University of Minnesota and his CPA license while working at Grant Thornton. He holds a Series 7, 24 and 63 securities licenses. He currently lives in Richmond Virginia with his wife and occasionally one of their 6 children.
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Investment, insurance and annuity products offered through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC are: NOT FDIC INSURED | MAY LOSE VALUE | NOT BANK GUARANTEED | NOT A BANK DEPOSIT | NOT INSURED BY ANY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY

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Equity Compensation

Helping you make the most of your equity awards and better understand how it may fit into your larger financial picture – today and tomorrow.

  • Vesting events
  • Option expirations
  • Restricted stock units
  • Tax implications

Retirement

Working with you to understand your life goals and develop a personalized wealth strategy. Today and for the years to come.
  • 401(k) Rollovers
  • IRA Plans
  • Retirement income strategies
  • Retirement plan participants
  • Annuities
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Investing

Working closely with you to guide your wealth and investments through the most challenging market cycles.
  • Asset Management
  • Wealth Planning
  • Traditional Investments
  • Alternative Investments
  • Impact Investing
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Family

Creating customized financial strategies for the challenges that today’s families face.
  • Estate Planning Strategies
  • 529 Plans / Education Savings Planning
  • Long Term Care Insurance
  • Special Needs Planning
  • Trust Services
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Business Planning

Helping you on key aspects of your business such as ownership, liquidity and developing opportunities.
  • Succession Planning
  • Business Planning
  • Qualified Retirement Plans
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Philanthropy

Making sure your philanthropic dollars are managed with the same high quality service as the rest of your wealth.
  • Endowments
  • Foundations
  • Donor Advised Funds
  • Impact Investing
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Financial Wellness

Enhancing Financial Wellness enables your workforce to do their best work. Companies that invest in financial wellness have an opportunity to:
  • Reduce employee stress,
  • Improve retention and engagement, and
  • Set themselves apart by offering comprehensive financial wellness benefits.
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Investment, insurance and annuity products offered through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC are: NOT FDIC INSURED | MAY LOSE VALUE | NOT BANK GUARANTEED | NOT A BANK DEPOSIT | NOT INSURED BY ANY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY

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