My Story and Services

With over 30 years of experience Lisa Pizzella utilizes a comprehensive and proactive planning approach to help families, entrepreneurs, and individuals manage and grow their wealth. Lisa has been helping families and individuals plan for and execute their retirement and estate planning goals since 1983 when she first began in the financial industry. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2001 Lisa worked for Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter, she came to Morgan Stanley and became an associate Vice President. She also earned the title of Financial Planning Specialist, as well as being in the Portfolio Management Program where she earned the title of Senior Portfolio Manager. Since building her practice at Morgan Stanley Lisa has developed a passion for helping women in business and women in transition as well as providing comprehensive financial and estate planning strategies to all generations of her client’s families.

Lisa is highly active in her community, holding leadership and supportive roles in various non-profit companies in the New York Metropolitan area. She has been dedicated to volunteering her time to Unico, a charitable service organization that she has been a member of since 2003 and has served as president for the Brick, NJ chapter and as district governor for the Ocean county chapters. Lisa currently resides in Brick, NJ. Outside of work she takes up ballroom dancing as a favorite hobby.
Services Include
Securities Agent: NH, CA, MA, CT, CO, SD, SC, PA, WA, MD, GA, IL, TN, FL, NY, NV, VA, OH, KY, DE, NC, NJ, AZ, WY; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1295497
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Our Clients

We address a range of client circumstances across generations. Many of our clients are successful, professional women and men and their families. In addition many of our clients are in the prime of their careers and seeking to accumulate as much as they can for retirement, their family, or simply to enhance their lifestyles. They want to make sure they will not outlive their money while gifting to family and causes that are important to them. For these clients it’s hard to have perspective in a vacuum, so we collaborate on their investments and plans to provide information for effective decision making. We take the time to educate our clients on the issues they face.
Multi-Generational Families
Our practice is committed to addressing the needs of all generations within the families we serve. Whether you are considering retiring from your job or transitioning your business to your family, or if you are concerned about ensuring that your family is financially savvy with the wealth they may be gifted or inherit, we are here to help. We work across generations to guide, educate and service everyone to ensure that your legacy continues.
Talking to your kids about money
Blended Families
Blended families come with unique financial dynamics that arise from merging families with different financial values, spending habits, and money philosophies. We take the time to understand you and your situation and look to provide solutions that are right for your family and your long term wealth goals.
The Depth of Real Advice
Women
Part of our practice focuses on the financial needs of women. We have found that independent women often feel as though they have been underserved, and finding simple, objective and trustworthy information can be overwhelming. Our team brings a multitude of resources and experience in financial planning and investment strategies for entrepreneurial, single, divorced and widowed women.
Women and Wealth
LGBTQ+
We work with LGBTQ+ couples, families, and individuals, take the time to understand their situations, emotions, and goals. We understand the different financial circumstances and look to provide resources and advice in order to help our clients reach their financial and personal goals.
Wealth Planning for LGBTQ Individuals, Couples and Families
Individuals and Professionals
Whether you are planning for retirement, looking to exit your business, or understand your company stock options, we are there every step of the way providing a holistic approach to all of your options with in depth financial planning and analysis.
Advantages of personalized financial planning
Our team applies decades of experience and a vast array of world class resources to help you navigate each stage of your professional life. Whether that is starting a new business, selling your business, exercising a large accumulation of company stock options or figuring out the best retirement plan for your company. We are here every step of the way.
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    Solutions for Existing Businesses
    By using Morgan Stanley at Work we help businesses maximize the efficiency of their workforce by incorporating innovative workplace offerings for companies and employees across Equity Compensation, Financial Wellness and Retirement Solutions. See our At Work homepage below where you can watch a short video to learn more.
    Learn More Here
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    Starting Your Business
    As a new business owner, you face a number of critical decisions that will have an enormous impact on the future success of your company. Questions about day-to-day cash flow, attracting and retaining talented employees, and balancing finances at work and at home are just some of the challenges you must consider.
    Financial Strategies For Growing Your Business
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    Exiting Your Business
    Creating and growing a successful business is seldom just about money, nor is the decision to exit the business, whether that exit is through an IPO, merger with another company, private sale or succession within the family. The process is intense, the details are complex, and the decisions are often an unexpected combination of personal and financial.
    Developing Your Exit Strategy
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    Understanding Your Equity Awards
    • How performance shares work.
    • The difference between incentive and non-qualified stock options, as well as restricted stock awards and units.
    • How you can use certain securities based lending solutions to cover the various costs associated with
    exercising stock options.
There is no doubt about it, planning your estate is an ongoing process filled with hard emotional decisions. Our goal is to simplify this process and help clients understand what they are really trying to achieve with the wealth they have built over the course of their lifetime. The resources below provide a few of the key items that go into estate planning and how we at Morgan Stanley work with you and your estate attorney to help protect and grow your wealth for the legacy plan you desire. If you have any questions or would like to discuss the estate planning process please feel free to reach out:

My contact info:
Lisa.Pizzella@morganstanley.com
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    Preparing for Your Meeting With an Estate Attorney
    This piece provides you with some ideas on how you might want to put together your Last Will & Testament and/or personal trust. It is designed to give you a "head start" prior to an attorney meeting.
    Click here to read the brochure
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    Income and Estate Planning
    The income and estate planning toolkit gives a detailed overview of the various structures we utilize to preserve and grow your wealth in the most tax efficient manner. If you would like to talk about the different estate and trust strategies please reach out.
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Millennials stand to be the inheritors of the greatest transfer of wealth that we have ever seen. This transfer of wealth along with the individual creation of wealth gives way to investing opportunities beyond what has always been relevant in investing and wealth management.
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    The Millennial and Gen Z Guide to a Sweet Retirement
    Our polling shows that many young adults are, in fact, worried about having enough savings for their future. For example, nearly one in four Millennials, born between 1981 and 1996, is concerned about having adequate funds, while 69% are uneasy about making that money last a lifetime.
    Learn why saving when your young makes all the difference
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    Millenial Playbook: A millenials guide to life and money
    Whether you are buying your first home, starting a family or learning how to invest, the millenial playbook helps guide you through each step of your life.
    Learn more here
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    Top 10 Investment themes for 2021
    Top trends focus on how fallout from the pandemic could radically reshape the roster of winners and losers in global markets.
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    The New Space Economy
    Climate change, security and telecoms are among the key themes driving a boom in the space economy. Here's a look at what’s behind the increased interest.
    5 Key Themes in the New Space Economy

Client Service Team

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    Anna Jasicki - Business Development Associate
    Phone:
    (732) 389-5163(732) 389-5163
    Email:anna.jasicki@ms.com
    Anna has been serving financially successful individuals and families since 2007. In her role as Business Development Associate, she is responsible for preparing performance reports, developing meeting agendas, and analyzing clients' portfolio allocations to ensure they their investment objectives are current. She also works to develop marketing strategies that support the team's business plan goals. She evaluates and implements various marketing methods designed to develop business opportunities with clients and prospects.

    Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Anna worked as a Financial Analyst at Bloomberg. She also served as a Client Associate and Branch Manager Assistant at Merrill Lynch. Anna earned her M.B.A. and B.S. degrees in Finance from Rider University. She holds her Series 7 and 66 registrations and maintains her state life, health annuity licenses.

    Anna currently lives in Tinton Falls with her son, Jakub, and enjoys an active lifestyle. She supports a number of charitable organizations, including Lunch Break, Task Force Dagger, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth County, through participation in a variety of local athletic events. Favorite free time activities include cooking, hanging out at the beach, playing sports, and taking her son on adventures.

Location

1030 Broad Street
3rd Floor
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
US
Direct:
(732) 389-8655(732) 389-8655
Toll-Free:
(800) 631-2221(800) 631-2221
Fax:
(732) 544-9070(732) 544-9070
Wealth Management
Global Investment Office

Portfolio Insights

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
4 Financially Smart Ways to Take Money Out of Retirement Accounts
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4 Financially Smart Ways to Take Money Out of Retirement Accounts

Discover how planning for required minimum distributions from retirement accounts can help you fund future needs and support loved ones.

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
2025 Global Economic Outlook: U.S. Policies May Temper Global Growth
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2025 Global Economic Outlook: U.S. Policies May Temper Global Growth

Global growth is likely to be around 3% in 2025 and 2026, as tariff and immigration policies begin to slow the U.S. economy late next year, and China's underperformance restrains emerging markets.

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
Are You Prepared for Tax Day?
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Are You Prepared for Tax Day?

The countdown to Tax Day has begun. Here are some strategies to consider as the deadline approaches.

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.
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