About Us

Our team takes the time to understand the unique situation that each individual has and help to make you feel financially confident. Whether you are seeking business succession planning, education planning, retirement planning, optimal portfolio construction and investment manager selection, or looking to understand how much to save, spend or gift to stay on track to help meet your goals, you can count on us to help, no matter how complex it may be.

We help you make effective and efficient decisions for your financial life. As the stage you are in your life or in your business changes, so do your goals. We offer comprehensive strategies that includes insight into your investments, but goes far beyond to encompass virtually every aspect of your financial life including legacy, estate planning and wealth transfer strategies.

One of the keys to making better decisions is to be data-driven. When you prioritize data-first thinking across your organization and give teams the tools they need to be successful with data, you'll kick off a chain reaction that boosts efficiency, effectiveness, and bottom-line results.

My training is rooted in social services and psychology, and my practice has evolved out of a desire to help clients help themselves. The theme of empowered choice is central to the way I run my practice. We are data driven with an emotionally intelligent overlay to help people determine their most acceptable choices. We rely heavily on financial planning to help model the longer term consequences of different options to help clients see the long term impact of different choices and decide from there what they can live with. Planning also informs the next steps, including portfolio design, to form a longer term, client centric and empowered sphere of updated and ongoing choices.
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Working With You

At The Bergeland Group at Morgan Stanley, we believe that identifying potential financial solutions begins with a solid understanding of each client's situation, goals, objectives and risk tolerance. We follow a disciplined process that allows us to work with you to craft a strategy that can help to meet your individual financial needs.
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    Step 1: Introductory Meeting
    Our relationship begins with an initial discussion aimed towards getting to know you, your lifestyle, and your future goals.
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    Step 2: Discovery Meeting
    During the discovery meeting, we will work together to establish your financial goals by reviewing your current financial situation and developing an appropriate risk tolerance that can help you achieve the financial outcome you envision for yourself.
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    Step 3: Financial Plan Presentation
    Financial plan presentations map out essential factors that play into your financial success such as your employee and employer contributions, liquidity events, and insurance coverage. Examining relevant financial information provides a holistic asset allocation analysis for your accounts helping ensure a comprehensive financial plan.
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    Step 4: Action Items / Next Steps
    After the financial plan presentation, we will follow up with you regarding our analysis and recommendations, which may include adjustments to your financial plan, investment allocation, company benefits and insurance coverage.
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    Step 5: Implementation Meeting
    The implementation meeting focuses on creating prospective strategies custom designed for your specific needs. Recommended changes could include logistics, tax impact, asset allocation adjustments, and saving/benefit modifications.
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    Step 6: Monitoring & Performance Tracking
    Finally, we will be constantly monitoring your assets and analyzing your performance tracking data seeking to ensure your financial expectations are bring met and adjusted accordingly. We will keep a high degree of communication with you to make sure your concerns and requests are always addressed.

Our Experience

2019,2020, 2023, 2024 - Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based 12-month time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award.

2023, 2024 Forbes America's Top Women Wealth Advisors & Forbes Top Women Wealth Advisors Best-In-State (formerly referred to as Forbes Top Women Wealth Advisors, Forbes America's Top Women Wealth Advisors)
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2023, 2024). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on 12-month time period concluding in Sept of year prior to the issuance of the award.
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    Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 - Denine Bergeland
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    Forbes Best-In-State Women Wealth Advisors 2023, 2024 - Denine Bergeland
    Check out Denine's ranking from Forbes Best-In-State Women Wealth Advisors for 2024!
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    Certified Financial Planner™
    The Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) program demonstrates an advisor's dedication to personal financial planning and their experience in this field. As part of their certification, all CFP® professionals commit to CFP Board's Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct, which means they commit to work in their clients' best interest at all times when providing financial advice.
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WORKING WITH YOU

Our comprehensive suite of resources are designed to help you achieve your goals in every aspect of your financial life. We have access to a suite of tools meant to transform complex financial analysis into concise and easily digestible content.
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    Clients We Serve: Families
    Our team works with your family to uncover your goals and understand your entire financial picture Our financial planning process will address and allow you to access various scenarios across a broad range of family wealth management opportunities and the potential impact on your long-term goals.
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    Services We Provide: Family Wealth Education
    As a service we provide, we can help your families’ next generation. The next generation may be taking a different path through life than the generations that came before them.
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    Clients We Serve: Business Owners
    We help teach our clients how to manage cash flow, retain talented employees and align their business plan with their financial goals.

    We complete business succession planning and the strategies that our clients can employ to bring clarity and confidence to the process.
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    Services We Provide: Tax, Trust and Estate Planning
    Learn how to use trusts, insurance gifting and other wealth planning tools to help your family secure a legacy that reflects your values, achievements and goals.

    An effective estate plan can help you support the people and institutions you care about the most, long after you are gone.
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    Clients We Serve: Succession Planning for Business Owners
    If you are contemplating an exit from your business, there are a multitude of personal, business, tax, estate, and financial factors involved in making this important decision. Planning ahead with the help of your professional advisors is essential for mitigating risk, enhancing business value, and ensuring that the exit helps you achieve your most important goals.
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    Services We Provide: Lending & Liability Management
    At Morgan Stanley, our team can provide qualified clients with financing solutions for almost any personal or business need.
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    Clients We Serve: Executives & Retirees
    Working we us, we can help you determine how much you will need for the retirement you envision and develop a savings strategy that maximizes the likelihood of success.
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    Services We Provide: Charitable Giving & Planning
    When giving is connected to issues and values that are collectively important to you and your family, it becomes more than a gesture or a transaction—it becomes an opportunity to make a difference in your local community or the world at large.

Valuable Tools and Resources:

Our comprehensive suite of digital tools are designed to help enhance every aspect of your financial life. Below are a few of the technologies we have to offer our clients. We have also included resources meant to transform complex financial analysis and research into concise and easily digestible content.
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    Total Wealth View
    Complete your financial picture with Total Wealth View. By linking your account information, you will benefit from more informed wealth planning, more secure data access and convenient connectivity,
    Learn More About Total Wealth View
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    GIC Weekly Research Report
    The Global Investment Committee's Lisa Shalett headlines this weekly look at markets, asset class performance and fixed income.
    Read The Latest Report
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    Goals Based Planning
    Working with us, paired with our technology, is a great way to access advice and build a wealth plan. Read more about the advantages of working with our planning technology in reaching your financial goals.
    Learn About Our Planning Tools
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    On The Markets Research Report
    Detailed market commentary from Morgan Stanley's thought leaders on topics such as global equities, fixed income, monetary policy and more.
    Read The Latest Report
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    Online Security Center
    At Morgan Stanley, safeguarding your assets and personal information is among our highest priorities. Learn about our security measures and use our resources and ideas to help protect yourself online.
    Learn More About Online Security
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    CashPlus
    CashPlus is a program that recognizes and rewards clients for choosing Morgan Stanley for their everyday cash management needs. This program provides clients with select benefits, savings, and enhanced services.
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    Morgan Stanley Online
    Your investments and everyday finances are always just a few clicks away with Morgan Stanley Online (MSO) and the Morgan Stanley Mobile App.
    Learn More About MSO
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    Thoughts On The Market Podcast
    With perspectives on the forces shaping the market, join Mike Wilson, Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist for Morgan Stanley, as he and his colleagues discuss a variety of viewpoints regarding the latest trends in the financial marketplace.
    Check Out The Latest Episode

Location

445 East Lake Street
Suite 320
Wayzata, MN 55391
US
Direct:
(952) 475-4317(952) 475-4317
Toll-Free:
(800) 366-1566(800) 366-1566
Fax:
(904) 273-7598(904) 273-7598
445 East Lake Street
Suite 320
Wayzata, MN 55391
US
Direct:
(952) 475-4317(952) 475-4317

Meet The Bergeland Group

About Denine Bergeland

Denine K. Bergeland is an Executive Director, Portfolio Management Director, Workplace Advisor for Equity Compensation, and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) with Morgan Stanley. She has over 30 years of experience working with high net-worth families and entrepreneurs, to help them navigate the multi-generational planning opportunities around retirement, income, estate and tax planning strategies.

Denine is a Portfolio Management Director with Morgan Stanley. Portfolio Managers represent a select group of Financial Advisors who are qualified by the firm to manage your assets based on training, experience and commitment to client service.

As an Workplace Advisor for Equity Compensation, she understands the complexities of managing concentrated stock equity position. She works with clients to help balance their risk and return objective with tax and regulatory concerns. Denine assists clients by helping enhance security and liquidity through tailoring, hedging and diversification strategies, which are consistent with their corporate disclosure requirements, and take into account any potential impact on investor relations.

As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, she has been extensively trained to understand the complexities involved in managing the multifaceted, nuanced financial concerns and challenges of wealthy families including following a planning process to identify financial objectives, sources of income, cash flow analysis, asset management, risk management and estate planning strategies.

Denine has been named as an America’s Best-In-State Wealth Advisor by Forbes Magazine for 2019, 2020 and 2023. In her spare time, Ms. Bergeland enjoys playing tennis and traveling. I am involved in church leadership and mentoring of young women in the financial services field. Denine is also interested in actively bringing diverse and new ways of thinking to the field of financial services. Denine splits her time between residences in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida and Wayzata, Minnesota.

2019, 2020, 2023 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2019, 2020, 2023). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based 12-month time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award.
Securities Agent: FL, TX, NC, MT, CO, AL, TN, VT, NE, ND, DC, AZ, SD, PA, OR, NM, MI, LA, IL, IA, WI, WA, MD, MA, IN, RI, MN, GA, CA, VA, NV, SC, OH, NY, NJ, KS; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
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Wealth Management
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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
4 Financially Smart Ways to Take Money Out of Retirement Accounts
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4 Financially Smart Ways to Take Money Out of Retirement Accounts

Discover how planning for required minimum distributions from retirement accounts can help you fund future needs and support loved ones.

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.

Mosaic

Explore ideas and inspiration with captivating, original lifestyle stories created exclusively for Morgan Stanley clients.
A Change of Greenery
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A Change of Greenery

Houseplants add oxygen, flair, and warmth year-round, and the right one in the right space can do just as much for a room as any painting or side table.

Financial Wellness

Enhancing Financial Wellness enables your workforce to do their best work. Companies that invest in financial wellness have an opportunity to:
  • Reduce employee stress,
  • Improve retention and engagement, and
  • Set themselves apart by offering comprehensive financial wellness benefits.
The Business Case for a Financially Resilient Workforce
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The Business Case for a Financially Resilient Workforce

In the face of turbulent markets, the word “resilience” may be top of mind. Broadly speaking, resilience is the ability to “bounce back” when encountering life’s inevitable challenges.
Ready to start a conversation? Contact The Bergeland Group today.
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