My Story and Services

Kate Palmer offers highly customized wealth management solutions to a select clientele of affluent families and individuals. Kate works to help each of her clients clearly define their immediate, longer-term and legacy goals so she can help them find solutions that integrate wealth planning, investment management, banking and lending. Working at the intersection of values and money, Kate also offers impact investing strategies to help her clients align their investment strategies with their personal philosophies. Drawing upon the full resources of Morgan Stanley, she seeks to implement strategies that help clients realize the intent they have for their wealth and peace of mind.

Thanks to the trust her clients have placed in her, Kate recieved ColoradoBiz magazine’s 2019 Top Young Professional award, and she was named a 2019 Networker of the Quarter by the Denver Leadership Foundation. In 2019, she was also nominated as one of 2019’s 40 Under 40 by the Denver Business Journal.

Kate received a B.S. in applied economics and business management from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and went on earn her M.S. in entertainment business from Full Sail University. She began her professional career planning major events for corporate clients, a focus she grew into her own business, and became a Certified Private Wealth Advisor® professional through The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Kate spent five years as a Private Banker at J.P. Morgan Private Bank.

Kate was raised in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and now lives in Denver with her husband and their family. In her free time, she enjoys rock climbing, traveling, snowboarding and exploring Denver restaurants.
Securities Agent: AK, TN, SC, PR, MS, MD, LA, ID, CT, CO, AZ, NJ, MT, MI, IL, WV, VI, MA, KY, TX, PA, NM, NC, MO, KS, CA, AL, VA, HI, DC, OR, MN, WY, SD, OH, IA, DE, RI, NV, ME, IN, FL, WI, VT, NH, NE, GA, WA, UT, OK, NY, ND, AR; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
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EXPERIENCE THAT TRANSCENDS INDUSTRIES

We work with a national clientele of financially successful families and individuals, building close working relationships that often span several decades and multiple generations. While our clients tend to share the complex, multigenerational planning issues common among highly affluent families, they also face unique challenges that are specific to the ways in which they created their wealth. These clients include:
    Entrepreneurs
    Across a broad range of industries at various levels of experience. We work with younger entrepreneurs who are in the startup phase of their enterprises, and seasoned leaders who have built and monetized multiple ventures.
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    Life stages of a Successful Entrepreneur Placemat
    Principal Investors
    We work with partners and employees of successful venture capital, private equity and hedge funds. We also provide the younger generations of our ultra-high net worth families with opportunities to pursue private investment vehicles for the family portfolio.
    Family Offices
    Offering an extensive range of capabilities to extend and enhance the services they deliver to their owners, and the consultative expertise to improve their operations. We are often called upon to work with the younger generation of the SFO owners as they begin to assume a larger role in decision-making.
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    Best Practices guide

MODERN WEALTH MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND RESOURCES

Morgan Stanley's comprehensive suite of digital resources has carefully been designed to help enhance each aspect of your financial portfolio. Take some time to learn about some of the many Modern Wealth Management resources that we offer to our clients.
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    Morgan Stanley Online
    Your investments and everyday finances are always just a few clicks away with Morgan Stanley Online (MSO) and the Morgan Stanley mobile app! Access your finances and invest in an instant with the help of this handy resource that is available 24/7.
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    Total Wealth View
    Complete your financial profile with Total Wealth View. By linking your external account information, you will benefit from more educated and holistic wealth planning, and convenient connectivity.
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    Portfolio Risk Platform
    Morgan Stanley's Portfolio Risk Platform is powered by BlackRock's Aladdin risk engine, a state-of-the-art, innovative risk engine used by several of the world’s largest institutional asset managers, providing you with comprehensive risk analytics and a sophisticated view of the risk/return dichotomy across your financial portfolios. This helpful tool can assist you in making educated investment decisions with increased confidence.
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    MS Reserved
    Reserved Living & Giving is a tiered complimentary loyalty program that rewards clients with over one million dollars in assets and liabilities invested at the firm. The program is designed to enhance your lifestyle and relationship with the firm.
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    Family Office Resources
    Family Office Resources (FOR) provides specialized technical expertise to ultra-high net worth advisors and clients across a broad range of family wealth management issues.
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Approach

Discovery Process
Investing the time to learn about you and your family; your assets and liabilities and the risk exposures, enables us to formulate strategies and customize the relationship to your needs.
Formulation of Tax, Trust and Estate Strategy
Working with your tax and legal advisors, we help analyze your income and estate tax circumstances to identify and tailor planning techniques that may be used to address your objectives.
Creation of Customized Strategic Asset Allocation
Your customized asset allocation reflects risk, opportunities and taxation across multiple entities, while integrating your investing and estate plans.
Integration of Tactical Asset Allocation
Short-term adjustments seek to capitalize on temporary market distortions. Before making adjustments, we analyze the impact of taxes and trading costs on potential returns.
Implementation of a Customized Wealth Strategy
After comprehensive due diligence and analysis of expected results across multiple market scenarios, strategies are chosen from our expansive investment platform.
Ongoing Assessment
In coordination with your other advisors, we can conduct ongoing reviews and comprehensive reporting to ensure that your strategy adapts to changing financial and family needs.

Location

1550 Market St
Suite 600
Denver, CO 80202
US
Direct:
(303) 572-4073(303) 572-4073
Wealth Management
Global Investment Office

Portfolio Insights

Managing Significant Wealth

  • Investment Management
  • Wealth Transfer & Philanthropy
  • Cash Management & Lending
  • Family Governance & Wealth Education
  • Signature Access
  • Business Services
Funding Climate Action: Pathways for Philanthropy
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Funding Climate Action: Pathways for Philanthropy

Share a new report in collaboration with the Aspen Institute. The report aims to help climate-oriented philanthropists explore critical issues and align their wealth management strategies with their environmental impact ambitions.

Insights and Outcomes

Thought Leadership for our ultra high net worth clients, which contains thought-provoking articles, authored by leading experts from Morgan Stanley Family Office Resources.
Larry Fitzgerald Jr.'s Playbook on Leadership and Values
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Larry Fitzgerald Jr.'s Playbook on Leadership and Values

The renowned NFL wide receiver shares insights on aligning your investments with your values.

Private Wealth Management Podcast

Bringing you engaging stories and key insights surrounding the complexities associated with significant wealth, including:
  • Intergenerational Planning
  • Philanthropic Giving
  • Non-Traditional Assets
  • Managing Family Wealth
LISTEN | Passion Assets: Investing in Art
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LISTEN | Passion Assets: Investing in Art

When a passion for collecting evolves into something of considerable value, new issues are raised. Hear what the professionals have to say about the best practices and pitfalls of collecting art and collectibles.
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