My Story and Services

When it comes to financial investing you want to work with someone who is knowledgeable, caring, dependable, honest, accessible, and experienced.

For over 39 years, Maria has provided advice, education, and consultative guidance to individuals, families, and organizations. Since joining Morgan Stanley in 1998 she has been implementing tax-efficient investment strategies designed to support the accumulation and distribution of wealth across generations, while navigating through varying financial cycles.

A graduate of St. John's University in 1986 with a degree in accounting, she now holds the Series 7, 31, 63, and 65 licenses and is certified for insurance in life and health. Demonstrating her commitment to education and staying at the forefront of a constantly evolving financial landscape, she holds numerous respected industry designations including Family Wealth Advisor, Certified Retirement Plan Specialist, Portfolio Manager, Alternative Investments Director, and the Investment Consultant designation from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Working with families, Maria's approach centers around comprehensive financial planning. She works closely with clients to identify issues and risks that could potentially hinder financial success. By addressing potential inefficiencies, she helps empower her clients to proactively manage risk and increase their probability of long-term financial well-being. Advice is provided throughout the relationship, providing guidance via a short and long-term investment strategy that is transparent, cost effective and easy to understand.

Outside of work, Maria is passionate about community service and actively advises with local non-profit organizations. Maria is a strong advocate for providing education that can help empower and inspire financial literacy. As a proud mom to three daughters, Maria is also a member of the Moxxie Mentoring Foundation, where she mentors college women and helps shape the next generation of professionals. In her free time Maria enjoys gardening and traveling, especially to her birthplace in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Services Include
Securities Agent: MD, UT, ME, LA, GA, WV, RI, NH, MO, IL, NJ, KS, IN, SC, PA, ND, WY, MN, CA, VA, NY, NC, CO, MI, MA, AL, VT, NM, TX, TN, IA, DE, CT, AZ, NV, FL, DC; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
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A Disciplined Investment Process

I work closely with you to understand your needs while maintaining the focus and discipline to help guide your portfolio through the most challenging market cycles.

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    Set Your Financial Objectives
    • Help you develop an investment strategy
    • Strategy is based on your:
    • - Specific goals
      - Time horizon
      - Tolerance for risk
      - Appetite for market volatility
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    Define an Investment Strategy
    • Asset allocation recommendation
    • Model and portfolio construction
    • Part of a diversified investment strategy
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    Evaluate and Select Investments
    • Implementation of asset allocation strategy
    • Investment selection based on your interests
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    Ongoing Review Process
    • Assessment of your investment performance
    • Make appropriate adjustments
    • Adapt strategy to changes in your personal and professional life

Family Wealth Director Designation

As your family grows and your wealth increases, you may face a broader and more complex set of wealth management challenges. As a Family Wealth Director, Maria has the extensive experience, specialized training and the resources necessary to help you and your family address these needs. She is here to help you create and implement a comprehensive wealth management plan based on your unique goals and aspirations.

Maria's integrated approach to planning includes family issues, wealth transfer, asset protection and location, and business succession planning, with a focus on helping you:
• Maintain family unity across generations, focusing on family mission, governance, conflict management and family endowments
• Help ease administration burdens by managing some of the most complex aspects of your life*
• Manage wealth with a long-term view and a unwavering focus on your family's interests
• Protect your assets and transfer them efficiently to the next generation and the causes and institutions you support
• Develop strategies that pass down family values as well as family assets
• Access specialized ultra-high net worth resources and strategies tailored specifically to your needs and goals

Tools to simplify your financial planning needs

Morgan Stanley's suite of Modern Wealth Management Tools allows advisors to offer more customized and comprehensive advice than anywhere else. These tools' ease of use allows for a more in-depth view of a client's financial life to be taken, resulting in better service and more well-rounded advice.

My goal is for your financial journey to be as streamline as possible. If you should have any questions about the usage, enrollment, benefits, or functionalities involved with any of the below tools, please do not hesitate to reach out to myself or one of my associates. We look forward to speaking with you.

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    Morgan Stanley Online

    Morgan Stanley Online allows you to seamlessly and securely manage your investments and everyday finances in one place.

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    Total Wealth View

    Managing multiple financial accounts across different firms can be complicated. With Morgan Stanley Online, you can link your non-Morgan Stanley accounts and analyze your cash flow all in one place.

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    Digital Vault

    Digital Vault lets you easily and securely manage and share important documents such as account statements, authorizations, tax filings and other relevant documents with your Financial Advisor.

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    eAuthorization

    eAuthorizations allows you to approve transactions electronically and securely on Morgan Stanley Online and the Morgan Stanley Mobile App.

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    Cash Management

    Because you manage your investments with Morgan Stanley, you now have a better way of managing your cash needs with a CashPlus Brokerage Account.

    • No Cash Management Fees
    • Exceptional Access and Value
    • Comprehensive Protection
    • Seamless Digital Experience
    Streamline Your Cash Management Experience
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    Spending & Budgeting Tool

    As a Morgan Stanley client, you have access to Spending & Budgeting tools to help you manage your cash flow across all of your accounts at Morgan Stanley, as well as those held at outside financial institutions. These tools, available on MSO and the Morgan Stanley App, allow you to track spending patterns using cash flow, income and expense analysis.

Alternatives Deep Dive

In the last decade, there has been an increase in allocation of assets towards alternative investments due to the lowered barriers of entry for investors and the ability for clients to invest through Morgan Stanley platforms. Maria Keeler has extensive experience in Alternative Investments. She provide individuals and institutions access to world-class investment strategies spanning private equity, real assets, private credit, hedge funds, and digital assets. These strategies may deliver differentiated sources of return relative to traditional equity and fixed-income investments, as well as offer the potential for tax efficiency. The many potential benefits that alternatives can provide you include:

• Diversification of holdings, you would not be heavily exposed in any one risk area
• Volatility reduction
• Mitigation of tax liabilities
• Cash flow and income benefits

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    The Morgan Stanley Advantage

    With over 45 years of experience and $180 billion in client assets invested in alternatives, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is a renowned industry leader in this asset class. Individuals and institutions have access to exclusive offerings, preeminent fund managers, and creative investment opportunities spanning:

    • Private Equity
    • Private Credit
    • Real Estate / Real Assets
    • Hedge Funds
    • Digital Assets
    • Tax-Advantaged Strategies

    Alternative Investments with Morgan Stanley
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    Why Alternative Investments?

    Alternatives are investments that go beyond traditional stocks and bonds. What this means to you is they can open doors for additional and exclusive investment opportunities, lower volatility, and advantages for greater yields and returns. This includes:

    • Expanding your wealth-building opportunities
    • Portfolio diversification
    • Lower Volatility
    • Potential for greater tax-efficiency

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    Innovative Ways to Diversify Your Portfolio

    Alternative strategies, such as those focused on hedge funds, private capital, and real assets, have long been appealing as a potential source of higher yields, lower volatility, and returns uncorrelated with stocks and bonds. Still, such strategies are typically reserved for institutional and ultra-high-net-worth investors, which have been out of reach for many individuals. The good news is working with Morgan Stanley, you have access to a host of these innovative investment vehicles.

    Innovative Ways to Diversify Your Portfolio
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    Alternative Strategies: 6 Key Themes

    In today's environments where traditional investing can be very standardized, alternative investments can play an important strategic role in certain portfolios. They can help diversify a portfolio and serve as an inflation hedge, as well as provide potential income. Here are six strategies that can guide your thinking on alternative investing in the near to intermediate term.

    6 Opportunities in Alternative Strategies

Client Service Team

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    Amy Curley - Vice President, Portfolio Management Associate
    Phone:
    (516) 683-3150(516) 683-3150
    Email:Amy.Curley@morganstanley.com
    Amy R. Curley is a Portfolio Management Associate at Morgan Stanley. With more than 30 years of investment experience, she is qualified to facilitate complex trading orders and handle all portfolio management requests. She works on conducting financial planning analyses, portfolio reviews and assist clients with banking and lending strategies. She executes all of this while implementing a high level of client service and specialized attention.

    Amy began her career in 1994 on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Over the course of her career, she has had the opportunity to work at several financial institutions, including Tucker Anthony, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch. Amy moved to Morgan Stanley in 2014. Amy attended The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry N.Y. and holds her B.A. degree in Psychology from Pine Manor College. Amy maintains her FINRA series 7, 63, 55 and 66 registrations.

    Born and raised on Long Island, Amy currently splits her time between Garden City and Southampton, L.I. with her husband, Dennis, and their two children, Caroline and Will. She is actively involved with the Long Island chapters of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Light the Night. In her free time Amy enjoys cooking, skiing and spending time at the beach with family and friends.

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Direct:
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Fax:
(516) 908-7952(516) 908-7952

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 Dana Jordan

Dana Jordan is a Private Banker serving Morgan Stanley Wealth Management offices in New York.

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.

Dana began her career in financial services in 2017 when she joined Morgan Stanley as a Lending Analyst in Private Banking Operations. She most recently returned to the firm in 2022. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Mortgage Professional at JP Morgan Private Bank.

Dana is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland, where she received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance She lives in Long Island, New York. Outside of the office, Dana donates her time to the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 1006. She is a Senior Gold Medalist and USFSA (U.S. Figure Skating Association) member, and enjoys partaking in CrossFit.
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About Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro is a Planning Associate at Morgan Stanley providing dedicated financial planning support to Financial Advisors and their teams. Operating as an extension of the Financial Advisor Team, he collaborates with clients to discover and define the goals that matter most to them. Leveraging state of the art technology, he will evaluate various options and their potential outcomes to help clients confidently choose the appropriate course of action. Ben provides expertise across a wide suite of Morgan Stanley planning tools designed to assist in the areas of investment accumulation, retirement, education, major purchase, cash flow, risk management, tax efficiency, and wealth transfer planning.

He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and received the Financial Planning Specialist® designation from the College for Financial Planning. Ben is originally from Atlanta, GA and currently resides there.
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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
A Simple Six-Step Retirement Checkup
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A Simple Six-Step Retirement Checkup

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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
Iran Conflict: Seven Takeaways for Investors
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Iran Conflict: Seven Takeaways for Investors

Prolonged conflict with Iran could lead to higher oil prices, hotter inflation and greater market uncertainty.

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.
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1When Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors and Private Wealth Advisors (collectively, “Morgan Stanley”) provide “investment advice” regarding a retirement or welfare benefit plan account, an individual retirement account or a Coverdell education savings account (“Retirement Account”), Morgan Stanley is a “fiduciary” as those terms are defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), as applicable. When Morgan Stanley provides investment education, takes orders on an unsolicited basis or otherwise does not provide “investment advice”, Morgan Stanley will not be considered a “fiduciary” under ERISA and/or the Code. For more information regarding Morgan Stanley’s role with respect to a Retirement Account, please visit www.morganstanley.com/disclosures/dol. Tax laws are complex and subject to change. Morgan Stanley does not provide tax or legal advice. Individuals are encouraged to consult their tax and legal advisors (a) before establishing a Retirement Account, and (b) regarding any potential tax, ERISA and related consequences of any investments or other transactions made with respect to a Retirement Account. Individuals should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for matters involving trust and estate planning, charitable giving, philanthropic planning and other legal matters.

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2Morgan Stanley offers a wide array of brokerage and advisory services to its clients, each of which may create a different type of relationship with different obligations to you. Please consult with your Financial Advisor to understand these differences or review our Understanding Your Brokerage and Investment Advisory Relationships brochure available at www.morganstanley.com/wealth-relationshipwithms/pdfs/understandingyourrelationship.pdf.

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3Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Clients should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for legal matters.

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4Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors and Private Wealth Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Clients should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for matters involving trust and estate planning and other legal matters.

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5Alternative Investments are speculative and include a high degree of risk. An investor could lose all or a substantial amount of his/her investment. Alternative investments are appropriate only for qualified, long-term investors who are willing to forgo liquidity and put capital at risk for an indefinite period of time.

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6Morgan Stanley’s investment advisory programs may require a minimum asset level and, depending on your specific investment objectives and financial position, may not be appropriate for you. Please see the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC program disclosure brochure (the “Morgan Stanley ADV”) for more information in the investment advisory programs available. The Morgan Stanley ADV is available at www.morganstanley.com/ADV.

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7Insurance products are offered in conjunction with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC’s licensed insurance agency affiliates.

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8Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC is a registered Broker/Dealer, Member SIPC, and not a bank. Where appropriate, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC has entered into arrangements with banks and other third parties to assist in offering certain banking related products and services.

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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9Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC does not accept appointments nor will it act as a trustee but it will provide access to trust services through an appropriate third-party corporate trustee.
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