My Story and Services

As your Financial Advisor, I 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, I can help you to preserve and grow your wealth. You will have access to highly seasoned and respected investment professionals, a premier trading and execution platform, and a full spectrum of investment choices.
Services Include
Securities Agent: MN, FL, WY, OK, CA, NV, NY, TX, WI, CO, WA, VT, AZ, UT; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
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Working with You

Our clients are successful business owners and professionals with active lives. They seek a team of experienced advisors to help them make smart decisions, both financial and non-financial, on the following objectives:

• Managing a life-changing event, such as the sale of a business, the transition to a new job, a divorce, the death of a spouse or the receipt of a large inheritance
• Planning for a successful retirement
• Financing a major acquisition
• Minimizing taxes while optimizing performance
• Preparing the next generation to effectively manage wealth
• Achieving long-term charitable and philanthropic goals

While the clients we serve have unique priorities and circumstances, they all have three goals in common. They want to:
1. Simplify their finances so they can focus on what is important to them
2. Develop an integrated and sustainable wealth strategy for now and the future
3. Achieve a work-optional lifestyle

We understand the challenges of wealth and are here for you each step of the way. We strive to provide the knowledge and insights you need to succeed in today’s fast-paced world, so you may enjoy your wealth and leave the legacy you desire.

Charting a clear, confident course to financial success begins with understanding your values, priorities and aspirations. Working together, we define what is most important to you and develop the path and strategies to help get you there.
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    "Fit" Meeting
    Our relationship begins with a face-to-face conversation to understand your financial concerns and determine if your specific objectives align with our strengths and areas of dedication.
    We discuss important investment concepts and provide details on our investment philosophy.
    We are not trying to be all things to all people.
    We are trying to be all things to some.
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    Team Consultation
    Our team meets internally to determine how we can add value to your situation. If there is a “good fit” among us, we will schedule our next discussion and request important information about your finances. If not, we will direct you to a better resource to assist with your needs.
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    Strategy Development
    We build upon our initial conversation, reviewing the information you’ve prepared and discussing a high-level overview of your situation and recommendations. In this step, we also begin the process of opening accounts and transferring assets to Morgan Stanley
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    Analysis & Plan Preparation
    Utilizing proprietary planning tools and our investment guidelines, we develop your personalized and detailed financial plan with recommendations to help you grow, preserve and transfer your wealth. This serves as the foundation for building your initial plan, as well as future financial decisions.
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    Plan Presentation & Implementation
    In this step, we present appropriate investment options that, once implemented, are designed to work together to help achieve your financial goals. Upon your approval, we will execute the investment recommendations and begin to implement the additional wealth management strategies we’ve discussed. These often encompass risk management, as well as estate, trust and philanthropic services.
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    Ongoing Stewardship
    Committed to a concierge service model, we focus on developing a relationship that can provide value to you and your family and offers a fully engaged dedicated services. We provide you with a variety of tools, so you have immediate access to your accounts. And because markets and personal needs evolve over time, we set up ongoing meetings in an effort to ensure your plan remains on track to achieving your goals.

OUR ULTRA-HIGH NET WORTH CLIENTS

Each of our clients require and receive the fundamentals of wealth management including strategic investment and risk management that aligns specifically with their financial plan. Ultra-High Net Worth individuals and families with 10 million or more in assets, have additional considerations that separate them from other investors. They need an advisor specifically qualified to work toward their needs.
Throughout the last four decades, The Hemmings Group has focused on the specific concerns and strategies that can be implemented with Ultra High Net Worth investors. We are one of the top Ultra High Net Worth Investment Management Teams in Northern Colorado having access to the following resources listed below:
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    Wealth Transfer
    Taking care of future generations is a core objective of many clients. Our advice on some of the most effective ways to structure wealth transfer can help make a meaningful difference in terms of taxes, control and family dynamics.
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    Philanthropy
    Our clients often have a cherished institution or cause to which they want to make a lasting contribution. We sort through the many ways to structure philanthropic plans to help clients maximize the value of their gift.
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    Legacy Planning
    How do you want to be remembered? Many clients come to us with general ideas, but without a specific, defined strategy to accomplish their legacy goals. We work with them to help create a plan.
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    Endowments & Foundations
    Many clients with substantial wealth choose to create an endowment at an institution, or a foundation with a defined charitable goal. Our team, plus top professionals at Morgan Stanley, have the necessary experience and dedicated knowledge to manage this task.
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    Tax-Efficient Portfolios
    Tax strategies can have a surprisingly large potential impact on lifetime wealth accumulation. A look at some of the techniques that could help you keep more money growing.
    Tax-Efficient Strategies
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    Signature Access
    Signature Access, the highest tier of Morgan Stanley's
    complimentary loyalty program Reserved Living & Giving.
    gives clients with $10 million or more in assets at the firm
    access to world class services such as Private Health
    Advisory, Personal Cybersecurity Services, Aircraft
    Management and more in addition to all the discounts
    and content available through Reserved Living & Giving
    MS Reserved Living & Giving
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    Family Office Cybersecurity
    Family Offices can be quite vulnerable to cyber threats
    and the dangers of ransomware are real. Consider these
    best practices to protect your information and assets in
    an increasingly complex digital world.
    Family Offices & Cybersecurity

Corporate Business Services

Morgan Stanley at Work provides workplace financial benefits that build financial confidence and foster loyalty—helping companies attract and retain top talent. Our end-to-end solutions support organizations at any stage of growth through a powerful combination of modern technology, insightful guidance, and dedicated service. And while we’re fulfilling a company’s benefits needs, we’re enhancing employees’ financial well-being. Each benefit solution includes our engaging Financial Wellness program, which provides employees with knowledge, tools, and support to help them make the most of their benefits and achieve their life goals.
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    Equity Solutions
    Together, we’ll help you create a culture of ownership at your organization by enabling you to build an equity compensation offering that best fits your needs.
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    Executive Services
    Empower your leaders to manage their equity compensation and complex financial needs with a dedicated Executive Services Relationship Manager.
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    Deferred Compensation
    Stay competitive with a Nonqualified Deferred Compensation plan – a workplace benefit for executives and other highly compensated employees and a powerful tool to help recruit, retain and reward executives.
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    Retirement Solutions
    Leverage a comprehensive range of solutions, with the support of Financial Advisors, to help employees confidently reach their long-term goals.
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    Financial Wellness
    The more knowledgeable your employees are in their finances, the more confident they can be in work and life. That’s why we include Financial Wellness with every service we provide.
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    Strategic Client Management
    Strategic Client Management (SCM) helps solve financing and advisory needs for your client and their business. We work with our internal Institutional Securities Group and Investment Management Funds (MSIM) as well as a platform of Middle Market Investment Boutiques that have been vetted and on-boarded to Morgan Stanley with strengths across a variety of industries and geographies. So we will vet the incoming information and identify the best direction for the opportunity to go based on size, culture, geography, strengths and past deals.
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    Public Market Solutions
    Whether you’re newly public, expanding globally or looking to evolve your equity compensation offering, we’re ready to help you with our end-to-end equity compensation solutions.
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    Private Market Solutions
    Creating a framework that builds from the systematic, objective and data-driven methodologies many investors use to determine allocations in public markets and complementing it with inputs dedicated to private markets.

Tax Efficient Strategies

Here at Morgan Stanley, we strive to simplify complex financial ideas so that our clients understand what is being done on their behalf to plan for their financial future. We want to provide our clients with as many resources as possible so they can stay informed about the latest market trends, outlooks, and breakdowns. The links below provide detailed analysis on interesting topics that are affecting the finance and business worlds.
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    Tax-Efficient Investing: Helping Keep Returns
    Establishing a tax management strategy for your investments may help you keep more of your returns. Applying an active tax-management strategy for your investments may help reduce your overall tax burden. Even small reductions in tax payments today can have a big impact on your wealth tomorrow. Consider putting in place some or all of the following potential solutions.
    Consider These Tax Moves
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    Total Tax 365: Tax-Smart Investing. All Year Long.
    Taxes act as a drag on your investment performance that can be heavier than any fee you pay. But they might also be the easiest to reduce, with the right strategies in place. Morgan Stanley Total Tax 365 offers a full spectrum of tax-efficient solutions to help mitigate the tax drag on your portfolio—so you can keep more of what you earn and improve after-tax returns.
    Why Choose Tax Smart Investing?
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    Want to Keep More of Your Investment Returns?
    Establishing a tax management strategy for your investments may help you keep more of your returns. Applying an active tax-management strategy for your investments may help reduce your overall tax burden. Even small reductions in tax payments today can have a big impact on your wealth tomorrow.
    Consider These Tax Moves
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    Tax-Loss Harvesting Can Work Year-Round for Investors—Here’s How
    Tax-loss harvesting is a tax-efficient investing strategy that can help reduce taxes from your investments. While many investors think of tax-loss harvesting as a year-end strategy, it can actually help you all year round.
    Tax Loss Harvesting
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    How to Access Your Tax Forms
    How to Access Your Tax Forms
    1. Log into your account via Morgan Stanley Online
    2. Click the Accounts tab
    3. Select the Documents tab
    4. Go to the Statement drop-down tab
    5. Select Tax Documents and download them
    Click Here to Log In to Morgan Stanley Online

Location

6125 Sky Pond Drive
Loveland, CO 80538
US
Direct:
(970) 776-5527(970) 776-5527

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 Matt Stotler

Matt Stotler is a Private Banker serving Morgan Stanley Wealth Management offices in Colorado.

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.

Matt began his career in financial services in 1987 with Bank of America and joined Morgan Stanley in 2016 as a Private Banker. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Regional Manager at Merrill Lynch. He also served as a Private Client Manager with U.S. Trust.

Matt is a graduate of California State University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and a minor in Spanish. He currently lives in Parker, Colorado. Outside of the office, Matt enjoys playing and coaching soccer, as well as spending time hiking, camping, and biking with his 3 daughters.
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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
A Simple Six-Step Retirement Checkup
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A Simple Six-Step Retirement Checkup

Checking in on your retirement plan may make a lot of sense, especially when market volatility arises.

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
Rational Investing in an Age of Uncertainty
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Rational Investing in an Age of Uncertainty

When it comes to investing, even the most savvy of us fall prey to bias and emotional trades. So what triggers should you watch for?

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
529 Plans: A Powerful Tool to Save for Education
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529 Plans: A Powerful Tool to Save for Education

Though education costs continue to climb, starting to save and invest early can make a difference.

Business Planning

Helping you on key aspects of your business such as ownership, liquidity and developing opportunities.
  • Succession Planning
  • Business Planning
  • Qualified Retirement Plans
Financial Planning for Life After Selling a Business
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Financial Planning for Life After Selling a Business

Selling your business can mean big changes for your life, both personally and financially. Know how to make the most of your windfall.

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
Donor Advised Funds: A Smart Way to Manage Your Giving
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Donor Advised Funds: A Smart Way to Manage Your Giving

There's more to charitable giving than you may realize. Here's one method that may be a tax-efficient way to give and can help maximize your impact.

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.
The Business Case for a Financially Resilient Workforce
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The Business Case for a Financially Resilient Workforce

In the face of turbulent markets, the word “resilience” may be top of mind. Broadly speaking, resilience is the ability to “bounce back” when encountering life’s inevitable challenges.
Ready to start a conversation? Contact Katie A. Baker today.
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