Randy Payne
Senior Private Banker | Market Manager
Robert DiCicco, CIMA®
First Vice President,
Financial Advisor,
Senior Portfolio Manager
Direct:
(214) 468-7235(214) 468-7235
My Mission Statement
I am committed to helping clients simplify their financial lives while helping them grow, manage and preserve their wealth for generations.
About Me
With nearly two decades of experience as a wealth management professional, Robert has dedicated his career to helping clients navigate their financial lives with clarity and confidence. He serves the diverse and often complex wealth planning needs and legacy goals of high- and ultra-high-net-worth clients, including successful professionals, entrepreneurs and senior corporate executives in the Dallas community. His experience with estate, trust, family governance and philanthropic planning allows him to deliver a customized, comprehensive wealth management experience with an exceptional level of service. Robert also works with endowments and foundations to provide institutional advice and strategies.
Robert joined Morgan Stanley in 2011 after working as an investment associate at UBS, where he gained a deep understanding of portfolio strategy, municipal bond management and asset allocation with an eye for tax efficiency. He holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst® designation, and he takes the time to educate his clients about the many investment opportunities they can implement to pursue their life goals.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Dallas, Robert has made his home in Texas for more than two decades. When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, as well as their bird dogs. He previously served on the boards of the Coastal Conservation Association and Quail Forever.
Robert joined Morgan Stanley in 2011 after working as an investment associate at UBS, where he gained a deep understanding of portfolio strategy, municipal bond management and asset allocation with an eye for tax efficiency. He holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst® designation, and he takes the time to educate his clients about the many investment opportunities they can implement to pursue their life goals.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Dallas, Robert has made his home in Texas for more than two decades. When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, as well as their bird dogs. He previously served on the boards of the Coastal Conservation Association and Quail Forever.
Services Include
Securities Agent: HI, AZ, VT, UT, LA, CT, VA, MD, IL, DC, AR, NH, NC, MI, MA, KS, ID, WI, WA, MT, MN, CO, WY, VI, OR, OH, NV, MS, GA, TX, NJ, IA, PR, PA, NY, ND, OK, NM, MO, KY, IN, DE, CA, AK, WV, TN, SD, RI, NE, AL, SC, ME, FL; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1622256
NMLS#: 1622256
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Custom Process & Planning
Our Investment, Discovery & Planning Process
- Understand What Matters Most
We begin with a thoughtful discovery process focused on your priorities, values, family dynamics, and long-term objectives. This includes understanding your lifestyle needs, balance sheet, liquidity considerations, and the legacy you want to create across generations.
- Define a Strategic Plan
We translate those priorities into a personalized wealth plan designed to align your capital with your goals. This may include retirement and cash flow planning, estate and legacy considerations, philanthropic objectives, risk management, and tax-aware strategies.
- Build a Tailored Investment Strategy
Your portfolio is designed around your specific objectives, time horizon, risk tolerance, and income needs. We focus on disciplined asset allocation, diversification, and thoughtful positioning to help preserve, grow, and transfer wealth over time.
- Implement With Precision
Once the strategy is aligned, we move forward with clear execution and coordinated action. Our process is designed to bring structure, efficiency, and confidence to each step of implementation.
- Review, Adapt, and Steward Over Time Wealth planning is an ongoing process. As your family, goals, and circumstances evolve, we review your strategy, monitor progress, and make adjustments to help keep your plan aligned across generations.
The Challenge of Concentrated Stock Positions
There are many reasons you've had a successful career. You're among the best at what you do. You're an innovator. But perhaps most important of all, you're an enterprise leader with the dedication and vision to value the organization's interests as much, if not more than, those of your own unit or department. That's why you've been rewarded with sizable equity compensation in the form of stock grants or options.
While you have additional assets in your retirement plan, other investment accounts, insurance, and real estate, this concentrated stock position in your company represents a significant part of your total wealth. This also represents significant challenges, such as tax implications, liquidity limitations, and potential volatility. You need the help of someone who understands the complex regulations as well as the potential political ramifications surrounding equity compensation.
How We Can Help
The Cypress Grove Group at Morgan Stanley specializes in helping executives manage equity compensation issues and craft bespoke, all-inclusive wealth plans. Drawing on our team's experience and expertise, as well as Morgan Stanley's resources, we help corporate insiders navigate insider trading regulations and reporting requirements.
We can suggest tax-efficient approaches to diversification and strategies to address cash flow needs before stock liquidity is available.
- Exchange Funds: Provide diversification without triggering taxable gains through IRS-approved tax-deferred investment vehicles
- Opportunity Zone Investments
- Donor Advised Funds: Gifting appreciated long-term gain stock to offset income tax in a year when there is a liquidity event
- Portfolio Line of Credit: Borrowing against stock in a portfolio line as needed for immediate cash flow requirements
- 10b5-1 Plans: Preset diversification plans to sell through open and closed windows, approved by legal counsel and executed by third parties
- QSBS Exclusion: Gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock (QSBS) may be 100% excluded from income
THE CHALLENGE OF MONETIZING BUSINESS VALUE
You've devoted yourself to building your own business. It was never really about the money; that was just a way to keep score. It was actually about pursuing your passion, being your own boss, challenging the status quo, and creating something lasting. Through your ingenuity, determination and grit, you've achieved success.
Now you're ready for another challenge, you'd like to spend more time with your family, or both. But you have substantial net worth that's difficult to access. You know your success in business doesn't automatically qualify you to steer your family through this very complex transition. You need advice and guidance from a team with the expertise and experience to help you manage what could be the transaction of a lifetime.
How We Can Help
The Cypress Grove Group at Morgan Stanley specializes in working with entrepreneurs just like you. We help you leverage personal wealth for business growth or liquidity as well as examine potential exit strategies in light of family as well as financial needs.
Drawing on our in-house expertise and the resources of Morgan Stanley we can help you through every stage in the life of a successful entrepreneur:
- Strategic Client Group / Investment Bank (private sale)
- IPO
- Generation: gain access to liquidity for business and personal use through approaches best suited to your needs and circumstances
- Monetization: model alternative strategies to monetize the value of your enterprise and consider how the proceeds hold be structured and invested
- Retirement: calculate cash flow needs, determine post career priorities and implement succession plans for continued family ownership
- Transfer: prepare younger generations with the education and support needed to assume control of family business and philanthropic legacies
THE CHALLENGE OF INTERGENERATIONAL WEALTH
You've been so dedicated to your company's needs that you probably never focused on the wealth you've built. Now that you've integrated the value of your concentrated stock into your plan or monetized the value of your business, you've found that your hard work has potentially provided generational wealth for your family. This realization raises family, lifestyle, and values questions as well as financial issues.
How much of your wealth do you want your heirs to inherit and are they prepared intellectually and emotionally to manage it? How can you make sure the money you donate is used effectively and how can you get your family interested in philanthropy? How can you develop a trust, tax and estate strategy and overall wealth plan that will provide for your current and future needs as well those of your heirs and causes?
How We Can Help
The Cypress Grove Group at Morgan Stanley can help you answer these questions and address these challenges. We bring the same level of attentiveness and service to all the issues you're facing, not just those involving your compensation, business, and finances.
Thanks to the resources available from Morgan Stanley we can provide you with comprehensive family office style services.
We will coordinate with your other advisors to explore the elements of your existing TTE plan and see how it works with your wealth plan and if changes need to be made.
Philanthropic Advisory
We will help you and your family create a mission statement and a charitable giving plan that matches your values as well as your needs.
Family Governance and Education
We will work with your family to ensure that they have the knowledge and understanding to play whatever role in the family's wealth future that you and they wish.
Lifestyle Services
We can offer you access to specialists who can help you with travel and concierge services, health and security advisory, tangible asset management, personal enrichment and financial administration.
Art Resources Team
Morgan Stanley's Art Resources Team can help you craft bespoke solutions regarding the art and collectibles which may make up a portion of your assets.
Location
2121 North Pearl St
Ste 500
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Direct:
(214) 468-7235(214) 468-7235
Fax:
(214) 468-7250(214) 468-7250
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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 Randy Payne
Randy Payne is a Senior Private Banker | Market Manager serving Morgan Stanley Wealth Management offices in Texas, Louisianna, and Mississippi.
Senior Private Banker | Market Managers partner with Financial Advisors/ Private Wealth Advisors (collectively “Advisors”) to deliver specialized cash management and lending solutions, while strategically leading sales activity and deepening client engagement across Wealth Management markets to drive growth aligned with long-term business and client objectives.
Randy began his career in financial services in 1993 and joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 as a Private Banker. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Divisional Sales Director at Wells Fargo Advisors.
Randy is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Management. He lives in Northlake, Texas with his family. Outside of the office, Randy enjoys spending time in Oxford, Mississippi with his family cheering on Ole Miss football and baseball teams.
Senior Private Banker | Market Managers partner with Financial Advisors/ Private Wealth Advisors (collectively “Advisors”) to deliver specialized cash management and lending solutions, while strategically leading sales activity and deepening client engagement across Wealth Management markets to drive growth aligned with long-term business and client objectives.
Randy began his career in financial services in 1993 and joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 as a Private Banker. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Divisional Sales Director at Wells Fargo Advisors.
Randy is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Management. He lives in Northlake, Texas with his family. Outside of the office, Randy enjoys spending time in Oxford, Mississippi with his family cheering on Ole Miss football and baseball teams.
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2Alternative 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.
3Morgan 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.
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.
5Morgan 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.
6Morgan 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.
7Morgan 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.
8Investing in the market entails the risk of market volatility. The value of all types of investments may increase or decrease over varying time periods. The returns on a portfolio consisting primarily of sustainable or impact investments may be lower or higher than a portfolio that is more diversified or where decisions are based solely on investment considerations. Because sustainability and impact criteria exclude some investments, investors may not be able to take advantage of the same opportunities or market trends as investors that do not use such criteria. Diversification does not guarantee a profit or protect against loss in a declining financial market.
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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.
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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.
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For more information, please see the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC Client Relationship Summary.
2Alternative 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.
3Morgan 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.
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.
5Morgan 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.
6Morgan 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.
7Morgan 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.
8Investing in the market entails the risk of market volatility. The value of all types of investments may increase or decrease over varying time periods. The returns on a portfolio consisting primarily of sustainable or impact investments may be lower or higher than a portfolio that is more diversified or where decisions are based solely on investment considerations. Because sustainability and impact criteria exclude some investments, investors may not be able to take advantage of the same opportunities or market trends as investors that do not use such criteria. Diversification does not guarantee a profit or protect against loss in a declining financial market.
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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