Welcome

Our team formed in 2000 upon the inception of Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Seattle office. We subsequently led the UBS Private Wealth Management development effort for 6 years prior to relocating to Morgan Stanley in 2011. We share combined industry experience of 80+ years* and manage assets for families and foundations in the Pacific Northwest. Together the team focuses on asset allocation, portfolio construction, holistic asset management, single stock risk management and trust and estate planning strategies.

With an emphasis on establishing long term relationships, our team works alongside a handful of high net worth individuals, families and foundations to help identify and achieve their financial goals. We accomplish this by offering a dynamic four-corner business model, incorporating relationship, process, advice and service.

Relationship – Flagged as your go to resource on all matters, we listen to your family story and actively participate in your successes, setbacks and milestones

Process – We commit to a tailored investment management process that aims to preserve your lifestyle and allow for your preferred level of involvement

Advice – Backed by the vast resources of the Firm, we help provide advice founded on a culture of excellence driven by global insight 

Service – We offer attentive, competent service, including regular communication with your external trusted advisors for holistic financial understanding 

* Please refer to the bio section of the website for individual years of experience

*2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 ​Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award.
**2022, 2023 and 2024 Barron's Top 1,200 Financial Advisors: State-by-State (formerly referred to as Barron's Top 1,000 Financial Advisors: State-by-State)
Source: Barrons.com (Awarded 2022, 2023 and 2024). Data compiled by Barron's based on 12-month period concluding in Sept of the year prior to the issuance of the award.
Capabilities
  • Family Governance & Wealth Education
  • 10b5-(1) Programs
  • Comprehensive Wealth Planning
  • Investment Management
  • Manager Selection
  • Risk Management
  • Hedging Strategies
  • Sustainable & Responsible InvestingFootnote1
  • Pre-Liquidity Planning
  • Open-Architecture Platform
  • Proprietary Investment Opportunities
  • Philanthropy Management
Check the background of Our Firm and Investment Professionals on FINRA's BrokerCheck.*

About PWM

Founded in 1977, Private Wealth Management is the division of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management that is dedicated to serving the firm’s most affluent clients, including some of the world’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and stewards of multigenerational wealth. Functioning as an exclusive investment boutique within a global financial firm, we deliver sophisticated solutions that leverage the intellectual capital and insight of Morgan Stanley’s substantial global resources. Drawing on a deep understanding of your financial life, our goal is to help you:
  • Manage investments with an unwavering focus on your financial strategy and personal goals
  • Create comprehensive, multigenerational wealth management plans based on your needs, challenges and the values that guide your life and legacy
  • Simplify financial complexity to help you achieve clarity and control
Private Wealth Management Highlights
  • Approximately 300 teams1 specialized in assisting individuals and families with $20MM+ in investable assets
  • Over $775 billion in AUM1
  • Comprising 25% of the Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisors list for 2023
  • Direct access to ultra high net worth experts in philanthropy, family dynamics, wealth transfer, lifestyle advisory and other areas of interest to ultra high net worth families
1 Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, December, 2023

Source: Barron's.com (April 2023) 2023 Barron's Top 100 Financial Advisors awarded in 2023. This ranking was determined based on an evaluation process conducted by Barron's during the period from Dec 2020 - Dec 2021. Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC nor its Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors paid a fee to Barron's to obtain or use the ranking. This ranking is based on in-person and telephone due diligence meetings to evaluate each advisor qualitatively, a major component of a ranking algorithm that includes client retention, industry experience, review of compliance records, firm nominations, and quantitative criteria, including assets under management and revenue generated for their firms. Investment performance is not a criterion. Rankings are based on the opinions of Barron's and this ranking may not be representative of any one client’s experience. This ranking is not indicative of the Financial Advisor’s future performance. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC is not affiliated with Barron's. Barron’s is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, L.P. All rights reserved.

Approach

Discovery Process
Investing the time to learn about you and your family; your assets and liabilities and the risk exposures, enables us to formulate strategies and customize the relationship to your needs.
Formulation of Tax, Trust and Estate Strategy
Working with your tax and legal advisors, we help analyze your income and estate tax circumstances to identify and tailor planning techniques that may be used to address your objectives.
Creation of Customized Strategic Asset Allocation
Your customized asset allocation reflects risk, opportunities and taxation across multiple entities, while integrating your investing and estate plans.
Integration of Tactical Asset Allocation
Short-term adjustments seek to capitalize on temporary market distortions. Before making adjustments, we analyze the impact of taxes and trading costs on potential returns.
Implementation of a Customized Wealth Strategy
After comprehensive due diligence and analysis of expected results across multiple market scenarios, strategies are chosen from our expansive investment platform.
Ongoing Assessment
In coordination with your other advisors, we can conduct ongoing reviews and comprehensive reporting to ensure that your strategy adapts to changing financial and family needs.

Global Franchise

Morgan Stanley serves a global clientele of individuals, families, corporations, endowments, foundations, governments and others through three core businesses:
  • Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
  • Institutional Securities Group
  • Investment Management
Our strength and synergies across each of these businesses not only contributes to the economic vitality and stability of the firm, but also expands the vast resources, expertise and global insight that we can offer you.
Morgan Stanley Franchise Power
  • $5.1 trillion in AUM1
  • Total Deposits $351 billion1
  • Morgan Stanley reported full year net revenues of $54.1 Billion in 20232
  • Morgan Stanley's Global employees approximately 80,0001
  • The Tier 1 risk-based Capital Ratio under U.S. Basel III was approximately 15%1
  • $314 billion in liquidity reserve1
1As of December 31, 2023, Morgan Stanley Quarterly Financial Supplement
2MorganStanley.com/InvestorRelations
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Location

601 Union Street
Suite 5200
Seattle, WA 98101
US
Direct:
(206) 344-2435(206) 344-2435

Meet The Almo Lipman Drew Group

About Jack Almo

Jack is a Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Management Director, Alternative Investments Director, and Private Wealth Advisor, with Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management division. He is based in Morgan Stanley’s Seattle office, along with his partners and a supporting team of associates. Jack and his team develop customized wealth management solutions for ultra-high net worth families, private foundations and endowments, and privately controlled companies. His team manages investment portfolios totaling approximately $2.6 Billion (as of July, 2021) on behalf of its clients.

Jack focuses on coordinating investment strategy and managing risk in multiple portfolios and entities, aligning family governance structures and estate plans with his clients’ values and aspirations for future generations, and connecting his clients with our investment and private bankers and capital markets specialists. In addition, he is responsible for structuring customized financial planning strategies to help clients meet their unique objectives.

Originally from Seattle, Washington, Jack graduated with Honors from the Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. He joined Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in 2011, after spending six years at UBS Private Wealth Management, where he was a member of the President’s Council. He began his career with Goldman Sachs’ Finance Group in New York and later returned to Seattle with Goldman Sachs to join their newly formed Pacific Northwest Office.

In 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, Jack was named by Forbes as one of the nation’s Best-In-State Wealth Advisors*. In addition, Jack was designated as one of Barron’s Top 1200 advisors State-by-State in 2022, 2023 and 2024**. He serves on numerous non-profit Boards and is deeply passionate about community service. He is the immediate past Chairman of Kline Galland Center, a Trustee of the Samis Foundation, a previous member of the Investment Committee of Virginia Mason and a Chair of the Investment Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Jack and his wife Adina have three children and reside in Mercer Island.

*2020, 2021,2022, 2023 Forbes Best-In- State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based 12-month time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award.
**2022, 2023 and 2024 Barron's Top 1,200 Financial Advisors: State-by-State (formerly referred to as Barron's Top 1,000 Financial Advisors: State-by-State)
Source: Barrons.com (Awarded 2022, 2023 and 2024). Data compiled by Barron's based on 12-month period concluding in Sept of the year prior to the issuance of the award.

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Securities Agent: TX, FL, WA, NC, CO, VA, MI, CA, VT, NJ, MA, PA, NV, NH, DC, AZ, UT, IA, OR, ID, HI, SD, KY, NY, MT, IL; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1262114

About Robert Lipman

Bob began his career at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division in 1983 in New York after receiving his JD and MBA degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He earned his BA from Yale University, Summa Cum Laude in History. He, along with the rest of the team, joined Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in 2011.

Bob is a retired member of the New York Bar, an active board member of Seattle Theatre Group and past board member of University Prep.
Securities Agent: WA, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, HI, IA, ID, IL, MA, MI, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OR, SD, UT, VA, TX, VT; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1262178

About Alyssa Drew

Alyssa joined Morgan Stanley in 2014, after receiving her BA in Finance from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. As a Family Wealth Director for Morgan Stanley, Alyssa is among a select group of 4% of Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors* who have demonstrated professional knowledge and experience in a range of specialties including estate planning, alternative investments, control and restricted securities, lending, hedging and monetization, and business succession planning. Alyssa is also a 2020, 2021 and 2022 member of the Firm’s Pacesetter’s Club**, a global recognition program for Financial Advisors who, early in their career, have demonstrated the highest professional standards and first class client service. Alyssa also represents Morgan Stanley's PWM San Francisco complex on the Firm's Pacific Coast Regional Diversity Council.

Alyssa supports the team by focusing on Portfolio Management operations and compliance, client relationship management, securities trading and managed account coordination. Alyssa also manages the team’s financial planning process, generating wealth planning data and materials.

Outside of work, Alyssa is passionate about animals and the Seattle Sounders, and enjoys spending time with family and friends.

*Source: MS Family Wealth Director Designee Roster, August 2020

**Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Pacesetter’s Club members must meet a number of criteria including performance, conduct and compliance standards, revenue, length of experience and assets under supervision. Club membership is no guarantee of future performance.

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Securities Agent: VA, NY, KY, VT, TX, NV, CA, PA, MT, IA, CO, ID, FL, NH, HI, AZ, WA, NJ, NC, MI, MA, IL, UT, SD, DC, OR; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1951661

About Darian Keuter

Darian graduated Summa Cum Laude from Washington State University where she received her BA in Finance from the Carson College of Business. She joined Morgan Stanley in 2017 and has prior experience at MCM in accounting and insurance. Darian focuses on client support, including the preparation of performance review materials, manager reviews and custom reporting. In her spare time, Darian enjoys various activities including golfing, hiking and kayaking and spending time with her friends and family.

About Elijah Singstad

Elijah joined Morgan Stanley in 2019 and supports the team with his focus on portfolio analytics, custom reporting and investment product research.

Elijah received his Master of Science in Finance from Seattle University and his BA in Business Administration with Finance & Accounting concentrations from Pacific Lutheran University. During his time at PLU, he was a member of the student investment fund and the men's swimming and lacrosse teams. In his free time, Elijah enjoys watching and playing sports, traveling, and all outdoor activities.
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  • Family Governance & Wealth Education
  • Lifestyle Advisory
  • Business Services
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Insights and Outcomes

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