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Delivering personalized and innovative financial solutions that help empower our clients to achieve their unique goals with confidence and clarity.
My Story and Services
Matthew is passionate about providing clients with confidence by helping them navigate risks and achieve their financial goals. His interest in financial planning began in middle school, influenced by his parents' involvement in investing and family financial decisions. Matthew’s unique approach involves getting clients to think about questions they may not know to ask and coordinating all areas of their financial lives to mitigate risk and provide assurance. He enjoys helping people and is committed to understanding all aspects of their lives to ensure everything is well-coordinated.
Matthew joined Morgan Stanley in 2025 and holds an MBA with a finance concentration from Southern Methodist University. He also has a background in personal financial planning from Texas Tech University. Outside of work, Matthew is committed to his community, volunteering at The Episcopal School of Dallas and various animal rescue organizations. He resides in Dallas with nine-year-old daughter. In his leisure time, he enjoys attending sporting events and spending time outdoors with his family.
Matthew joined Morgan Stanley in 2025 and holds an MBA with a finance concentration from Southern Methodist University. He also has a background in personal financial planning from Texas Tech University. Outside of work, Matthew is committed to his community, volunteering at The Episcopal School of Dallas and various animal rescue organizations. He resides in Dallas with nine-year-old daughter. In his leisure time, he enjoys attending sporting events and spending time outdoors with his family.
Securities Agent: OR, MN, MI, DC, NV, KY, FL, DE, WV, TN, IN, CT, AR, PA, MS, KS, HI, CO, VA, SD, NM, GA, CA, UT, SC, OK, NJ, NH, MT, MO, OH, PR, ME, MD, MA, WI, TX, NC, IA, AK, WA, VT, RI, NY, NE, ND, LA, IL, ID, AZ, WY; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
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EXECUTIVE SERVICES
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Executive Financial Services
As a successful corporate executive, you face unique challenges. Morgan Stanley offer’s services designed for executives like you, helping you make more informed choices and manage your wealth more effectively.
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Understanding Your Equity Awards
Equity awards are a recognition of your executives’ hard work. Let’s help put them to good use. Leveraging an innovative analysis platform, our team provides strategy and perspective to help your leaders maximize the impact of their equity.
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Concentrated Stock & Options Analysis
Designed for executives who have significant wealth in stock and options of their company, the Concentrated Stock and Options Analysis illustrates various valuations of holdings as well as hypothetical diversification scenarios.
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Advantages For Your Company
Morgan Stanley puts our years of experience and leadership into action so you can provide benefits that set you apart.
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Best-In-Class Rule 10b5-1 & 144 Transaction Services
As a corporate executive, you may be aware of material non-public information at any time and can also face company-imposed quarterly or specific blackout periods restricting market access to trading your company stock. A 10b5-1 plan is designed to address these issues. By utilizing a 10b5-1 plan, you can gain an affirmative defense against claims of insider trading. Your plan can include tailored trading schedules that coordinates with your personal need for liquidity and your own timing requirements.
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Morgan Stanley at Work
Workplace financial solutions that help employees achieve their life goals. Our comprehensive offering spans Equity, Financial Wellness and Retirement solutions, plus Financial Empowerment, so your workforce can realize the full potential of their benefits.
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Goals you set today will evolve over time. Our approach is crafted to adapt alongside your objectives and the changing circumstances of your life. Holistic in its approach, our planning process will encompass all the elements of your financial and personal life, making sure they align with your current and future goals and priorities.
LifeView Intelligent Planning
LifeView is a suite of planning tools that includes goal-specific analysis that we can use with our clients to create a holistic strategy that integrates the various aspects of an individual's financial life, including investments and cash management needs.
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Portfolio Risk Platform
Our Portfolio Risk Platform, backed by institutional-caliber analytics, assesses thousands of risk factors using a holdings-based approach to assess a portfolio's exposures, analyze how securities behave together across portfolios and forecast how they influence risk and return moving forward.
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Intelligent Withdrawals
Intelligent Withdrawal gives us the ability to look across multiple accounts and products to identify the right combination of securities and tax lots to sell so you can help meet spending needs while making the most out of your hard-earned money.
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Lending and Cash Management
We recognize that clients and their families have unique needs that require dedicated experience and capabilities. Our goal is to help simplify your financial life with a combination of cash management and lending solutions designed to complement your investment strategy and support your financial goals.
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Donor Advised Funds (DAF)
A solution that may help you execute planned giving, offer an efficient way to donate complex and illiquid assets, and simplify charitable giving reporting while potentially mitigating taxes. Bring philanthropy into your wealth plan and help amplify the impact of your giving through the Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust (MS GIFT).
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Tax-Efficient Investing
Tax-efficient investing techniques may help you lower your tax burden and increase your long-term wealth.
Learn MoreEVERYTHING YOU NEED, ALL IN ONE PLACE
Morgan Stanley’s comprehensive suite of digital resources has been carefully designed to help enhance each and every aspect of your financial portfolio and life. Learn more about some of the Modern Wealth Management Tools that we offer to our valued clients.
Morgan Stanley Online
Beyond viewing your account balance and activity, Morgan Stanley Online (MSO) has a suite of features that allow you to manage your everyday finances from paying bills and sending money to transferring funds and authorizing transactions with eAuthorizations.
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Total Wealth View
View all your external financial accounts directly in Morgan Stanley Online or the mobile app. By linking your accounts, you'll benefit from more informed wealth planning, secure data access and convenient connectivity.
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Digital Vault
Digital Vault allows for easy sharing and convenient access to your most important documents from wills and deeds to financial statements and tax fillings. Easily manage your encrypted financial records all in one place.
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eDelivery
eDelivery provides you with the ability to view statements and other documents electronically in lieu of paper. Clients who are registered in Morgan Stanley Online may enroll in eDelivery.
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Family Office Resources
Morgan Stanley Family Office Resources provides specialized, technical expertise to select clients across a broad range of family wealth management issues. Our core capabilities span three complimentary areas of focus including Governance & Legacy, Wealth Strategies and Signature Access.
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MS Reserved
Reserved Living & Giving is a tiered complimentary loyalty program that rewards Morgan Stanley's most valued clients. The program is designed to enhance your lifestyle and relationship with the firm beyond traditional wealth management services.
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Awards and Recognition
Barron's Top 250 Private Wealth Management Teams
Barron's Top 250 Private Wealth Management Teams Source: barrons.com (Awarded May 2025) Data compiled by Barron's for the period Jan 2024-Dec 2024.
Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors
Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors Source: Forbes.com (Awarded April 2025) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC for the period 6/30/23 - 6/30/24.
Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams
Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams Source: Forbes (Awarded Jan 2025) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based for the period 3/31/23-3/31/24.
Forbes Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors Best-In-State
2023-2024 Forbes Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors Best-in-State Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2023-2024). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on 12-month period concluding in Mar of the year the award was issued.
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