Amy Gross, CFP®
Financial Planning Director, First Vice President
Raymond Piccione
Senior Vice President,
Financial Advisor,
Senior Portfolio Management Director
Direct:
(630) 245-6033(630) 245-6033
My Mission Statement
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” An emphasis is placed on the details (dynamics) which affect the client’s ability to reach his or her goals; thereby, providing an optimal path to help achieve those ends. Working with you to help preserve and grow wealth for your long-term goals.
About Us
Welcome
Making Sure You Have All the Players on the Field• Development of the client’s portfolio is rooted in asset allocation• Helping you with your short-term, mid-term, and long-term financial goals• “Client’s tolerance to risk or lack thereof is integral to all decisions being made”The Piccione Group at Morgan Stanley* is a team of investment professionals, including Ray Piccione. The team listens to the client’s needs and creates a financial plan with customized solutions. The client relationship is governed by a few fundamental rules: “We are loyal to our clients’ wishes and pursue their objectives as if they were our own.” In addition, flexibility, diversification and asset allocation are the cornerstone in each portfolio created: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” An emphasis is placed on the details (dynamics) which affect the client’s ability to reach his or her goals; thereby, providing an optimal path to help achieve those ends. Contact us today to put our experience to work for you. As your Financial Advisors, we 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 to preserve and grow wealth, you’ll have access to some of the world’s most seasoned and respected investment professionals, a premier trading and execution platform and a full spectrum of investment choices.
Making Sure You Have All the Players on the Field• Development of the client’s portfolio is rooted in asset allocation• Helping you with your short-term, mid-term, and long-term financial goals• “Client’s tolerance to risk or lack thereof is integral to all decisions being made”The Piccione Group at Morgan Stanley* is a team of investment professionals, including Ray Piccione. The team listens to the client’s needs and creates a financial plan with customized solutions. The client relationship is governed by a few fundamental rules: “We are loyal to our clients’ wishes and pursue their objectives as if they were our own.” In addition, flexibility, diversification and asset allocation are the cornerstone in each portfolio created: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” An emphasis is placed on the details (dynamics) which affect the client’s ability to reach his or her goals; thereby, providing an optimal path to help achieve those ends. Contact us today to put our experience to work for you. As your Financial Advisors, we 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 to preserve and grow wealth, you’ll have access to some of the world’s most seasoned and respected investment professionals, a premier trading and execution platform and a full spectrum of investment choices.
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NMLS#: 1261813
CA Insurance License #: 0H33343
NMLS#: 1261813
CA Insurance License #: 0H33343
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4 Step Process
4 Step Process
Our Clients
I’ve often said “The Financial Plan is the footprint of a family’s needs and the real test of a family’s overall success.” How closely a family’s footprint parallels the way they live their life, is paramount in the overall success of reaching their goals and objectives.
In our Financial Planning meetings, we often hear our clients report to us that they did not realize how different they had been living their lives as compared to what they really wanted to achieve. This is a sobering experience which results in a renewed focus and resilience to align their life style to their goals.
The Financial Plan is the Advisor’s blueprint for the continued construction and maintenance of the client’s overall portfolio, which reflects their risk tolerance and future income needs. From our perspective, during the Financial Planning process, “The Financial Plan is the cream in your coffee – it always comes to the top”.
Our question becomes, does the cream in your coffee match what you envision in your mind and what is in your heart? This question has to be re-visited on a regular basis to ensure that we are tweaking The Financial Planning process to your changing needs.
“It is a two way street to succeed! Both the Advisor and Client have to be engaged and keep the plan on track.”
Morgan 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 https://www.morganstanley.com/wealth-relationshipwithms/pdfs/understandingyourrelationship.pdf
In our Financial Planning meetings, we often hear our clients report to us that they did not realize how different they had been living their lives as compared to what they really wanted to achieve. This is a sobering experience which results in a renewed focus and resilience to align their life style to their goals.
The Financial Plan is the Advisor’s blueprint for the continued construction and maintenance of the client’s overall portfolio, which reflects their risk tolerance and future income needs. From our perspective, during the Financial Planning process, “The Financial Plan is the cream in your coffee – it always comes to the top”.
Our question becomes, does the cream in your coffee match what you envision in your mind and what is in your heart? This question has to be re-visited on a regular basis to ensure that we are tweaking The Financial Planning process to your changing needs.
“It is a two way street to succeed! Both the Advisor and Client have to be engaged and keep the plan on track.”
Morgan 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 https://www.morganstanley.com/wealth-relationshipwithms/pdfs/understandingyourrelationship.pdf
Location
4225 Naperville Rd
Ste 255
Lisle, IL 60532
US
Direct:
(630) 245-6033(630) 245-6033
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About Amy Gross
Amy Gross is a first vice president and financial planning director serving Morgan Stanley Wealth Management offices in the Chicago suburbs. She is responsible for helping financial advisors with their clients' and prospects' financial planning needs.
Amy began her career in financial services in 2009 and joined Morgan Stanley in 2021. Prior to her current position, she worked at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse as a senior registered associate working with high-net-worth clients on an individual basis and making sure all of their financial and operational needs were met.
Amy graduated from Illinois State University and holds her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation. Amy lives in Brookfield, IL with her husband Garrett, daughter Felicity, and son Emmett. Outside of work, Amy enjoys both going to and volunteering at Brookfield Zoo and is a Chicago Zoological Association Associate Board Member. She also enjoys reading, traveling and exploring new places whenever she can.
Amy began her career in financial services in 2009 and joined Morgan Stanley in 2021. Prior to her current position, she worked at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse as a senior registered associate working with high-net-worth clients on an individual basis and making sure all of their financial and operational needs were met.
Amy graduated from Illinois State University and holds her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation. Amy lives in Brookfield, IL with her husband Garrett, daughter Felicity, and son Emmett. Outside of work, Amy enjoys both going to and volunteering at Brookfield Zoo and is a Chicago Zoological Association Associate Board Member. She also enjoys reading, traveling and exploring new places whenever she can.
Important information about your relationship with your Financial Advisor and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC when using a Financial Planning tool. When your Financial Advisor prepares a Financial Plan, they will act in an investment advisory capacity for thirty (30) days after the delivery of your Financial Plan. To understand the differences between brokerage and advisory relationships, you should consult your Financial Advisor, or review our “Understanding Your Brokerage and Investment Advisory Relationships,” brochure available at https://www.morganstanley.com/wealth-relationshipwithms/pdfs/understandingyourrelationship.pdf.
You have sole responsibility for making all investment decisions with respect to the implementation of a Financial Plan. You may implement the Financial Plan at Morgan Stanley or at another firm. If you engage or have engaged Morgan Stanley, it will act as your broker, unless you ask it, in writing, to act as your investment adviser on any particular account.
Morgan 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.
Morgan 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, charitable giving, philanthropic planning and other legal matters.
You have sole responsibility for making all investment decisions with respect to the implementation of a Financial Plan. You may implement the Financial Plan at Morgan Stanley or at another firm. If you engage or have engaged Morgan Stanley, it will act as your broker, unless you ask it, in writing, to act as your investment adviser on any particular account.
Morgan 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.
Morgan 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, charitable giving, philanthropic planning and other legal matters.
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2Investors should consider many factors before deciding which 529 plan is appropriate. Some of these factors include: the Plan's investment options and the historical investment performance of these options, the Plan's flexibility and features, the reputation and expertise of the Plan's investment manager, Plan contribution limits and the federal and state tax benefits associated with an investment in the Plan. Some states, for example, offer favorable tax treatment and other benefits to their residents only if they invest in the state's own Qualified Tuition Program. Investors should determine their home state's tax treatment of 529 plans when considering whether to choose an in-state or out-of-state plan. Investors should consult with their tax or legal advisor before investing in any 529 Plan or contact their state tax division for more information. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC does not provide tax and/or legal advice. Investors should review a Program Disclosure Statement, which contains more information on investment options, risk factors, fees and expenses and possible tax consequences.
3Alternative 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.
4Annuities are offered in conjunction with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC’s licensed insurance agency affiliates.
5Investors should consider many factors before deciding which 529 plan is appropriate. Some of these factors include: the Plan’s investment options and the historical investment performance of these options, the Plan’s flexibility and features, the reputation and expertise of the Plan’s investment manager, Plan contribution limits and the federal and state tax benefits associated with an investment in the Plan. Some states, for example, offer favorable tax treatment and other benefits to their residents only if they invest in the state’s own Qualified Tuition Program. Investors should determine their home state’s tax treatment of 529 plans when considering whether to choose an in-state or out-of-state plan. Investors should consult with their tax or legal advisor before investing in any 529 Plan or contact their state tax division for more information. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC does not provide tax and/or legal advice. Investors should review a Program Disclosure Statement, which contains more information on investment options, risk factors, fees and expenses and possible tax consequences.
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2Investors should consider many factors before deciding which 529 plan is appropriate. Some of these factors include: the Plan's investment options and the historical investment performance of these options, the Plan's flexibility and features, the reputation and expertise of the Plan's investment manager, Plan contribution limits and the federal and state tax benefits associated with an investment in the Plan. Some states, for example, offer favorable tax treatment and other benefits to their residents only if they invest in the state's own Qualified Tuition Program. Investors should determine their home state's tax treatment of 529 plans when considering whether to choose an in-state or out-of-state plan. Investors should consult with their tax or legal advisor before investing in any 529 Plan or contact their state tax division for more information. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC does not provide tax and/or legal advice. Investors should review a Program Disclosure Statement, which contains more information on investment options, risk factors, fees and expenses and possible tax consequences.
3Alternative 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.
4Annuities are offered in conjunction with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC’s licensed insurance agency affiliates.
5Investors should consider many factors before deciding which 529 plan is appropriate. Some of these factors include: the Plan’s investment options and the historical investment performance of these options, the Plan’s flexibility and features, the reputation and expertise of the Plan’s investment manager, Plan contribution limits and the federal and state tax benefits associated with an investment in the Plan. Some states, for example, offer favorable tax treatment and other benefits to their residents only if they invest in the state’s own Qualified Tuition Program. Investors should determine their home state’s tax treatment of 529 plans when considering whether to choose an in-state or out-of-state plan. Investors should consult with their tax or legal advisor before investing in any 529 Plan or contact their state tax division for more information. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC does not provide tax and/or legal advice. Investors should review a Program Disclosure Statement, which contains more information on investment options, risk factors, fees and expenses and possible tax consequences.
Check the background of our Firm and Investment Professionals on FINRA's BrokerCheck*.
The information, products and services described here are intended only for individuals residing in states where this Financial Advisor is properly registered as described in this site.
Morgan Stanley reserves the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to retain and monitor all electronic communications. Morgan Stanley will not accept purchase or sale orders via any Internet site, social media site and/or its messaging systems. Morgan Stanley does not endorse and is not responsible and assumes no liability for content, products or services posted by third-parties on any Internet site, social media site and/or its messaging systems. All electronic communications are subject to terms available at the following link:
https://www.morganstanley.com/disclaimers/mswm-email.html. Any profiles and associated content are for U.S. residents only.
The securities/instruments, services, investments and investment strategies discussed in this material may not be appropriate for all investors. The appropriateness of a particular investment, investment strategy or service will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC recommends that investors independently evaluate particular investments, strategies and services, and encourages investors to seek the advice of a Financial Advisor or Private Wealth Advisor. This material does not provide individually tailored investment advice. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Individuals should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for legal matters.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”) is not implying an affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement with/of the third party or that any monitoring is being done by Morgan Stanley of any information contained within the website. Morgan Stanley is not responsible for the information contained on the third-party website or the use of or inability to use such site. Nor do we guarantee their accuracy or completeness.
The views, opinions or advice contained within third party websites or materials are solely those of the author, who is not a Morgan Stanley employee, and do not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, or its affiliates. The strategies and/or investments referenced may not be appropriate for all investors as the appropriateness of a particular investment or strategy will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives.
*References to length of service at Morgan Stanley include years at Morgan Stanley and predecessor firms.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Center for Financial Planning, Inc. owns and licenses the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, and CFP® (with plaque design) in the United States to Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., which authorizes individuals who successfully complete the organization's initial and ongoing certification requirements to use the certification marks.
The use of the CDFA designation does not permit the rendering of legal advice by Morgan Stanley or its Financial Advisors which may only be done by a licensed attorney. The CDFA designation is not intended to imply that either Morgan Stanley or its Financial Advisors are acting as experts in this field.
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