James Blake
Senior Vice President, Wealth Management, Financial Advisor, Portfolio Management Director
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An experienced team within a global leader, The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley, is optimized to help serve ultra-high net worth individuals, families and foundations.
TRUE DIRECTION.
An experienced team within a global leader, The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley, is optimized to help serve ultra-high net worth individuals, families and foundations.
The Blake Group Story
As Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors, we combine our own talents and experience with the vast resources of a global financial services firm to help address the planning, governance, liability management and investing needs of ultra-high net worth families, their businesses and philanthropic enterprises. We take a holistic approach that is grounded in investment strategy covering virtually every aspect of your financial life: risk management, liabilities, trusts and estate structures and even family dynamics and lifestyle management issues. Our goal is to help preserve and grow your financial, family and social capital so that it can meet your needs, and have the greatest positive impact today and for generations to come.
We welcome you to consider The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley and discuss the resources we can deliver for you and your family.
Capabilities:
- Family Governance & Wealth Education
- Comprehensive Wealth Planning
- Legacy and Estate Planning Strategies
- Risk Management Strategies
- Financial Planning Strategies
- Investment Management
- Business Succession Planning
- Cash Management and Lending Strategies
- Insurance Planning
- Tax Loss Harvesting Strategies
- Pre-Liquidity Planning
- Open Architecture Platform
- 10b5-(1) Programs
- Coordination with Tax and Legal Advisors
- Philanthropy
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IN THE PRESS
- Andrew Blake Named to 2024 Forbes Magazine's List of Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors Best-in-State
Disclaimer: Forbes.com (Awarded Aug 2024) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on time period from 3/23–3/24 - The Blake Group Named to 2024 Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams
Disclaimer: Forbes.com (Awarded Jan 2024) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based for the period from 3/31/22–3/31/23 - Andrew Blake Named to 2023 Forbes Magazine's List of Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors Best-in-State
Disclaimer: Forbes.com (Awarded Aug 2023) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on time period from 3/31/22–3/31/23 - Andrew Blake Named to 2018 Forbes Magazine's List of America's Top Next Generation Wealth Advisors
Disclaimer: Forbes Top 1,000 Next Gen Wealth Advisors Source: Forbes.com (Awarded Jul 2018) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on time period from 3/31/17 - 3/31/18
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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.
Access to Financing and Liquidity Strategies
Through your Morgan Stanley Active Assets Account, you can access a full suite of cash management and lending solutions to help you manage your everyday finances.
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Trust Planning
Morgan Stanley recognizes that trusts are a vital part of your overall financial picture.
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Private Equity Principals
In managing the personal wealth of many private equity principals, The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management have developed a very specific knowledge base and a extensive set of capabilities.
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Charitable Giving
Innovative and effective giving strategies allocated to help do the most good.
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Portfolio Management
Measured risk and reward investment strategies to help meet your unique circumstances.
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Monetization Planning
We can work with you, your tax and legal advisors and your investment bankers to help identify and structure an exit strategy consistent with your business and personal financial goals.
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Life Stages of a Successful Entrepreneur
In working with us, you gain access to the intellectual capital and vast resources of our firm to help you manage your personal finances. Both our Institutional Securities Group and Morgan Stanley Investment Management extend that range into your personal life, delivering the investment banking, capital markets and institutional investing solutions needed to pursue the strategic ambitions of your enterprise.
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Estate Planning
You have worked long and hard to achieve success and build your wealth – now is the time to think about preserving it and building a plan for its transition. There are many factors to consider as you structure your estate plan.
Read more about the tools that are available to you and questions to consider here
Personalized
We consider all of our clients to be unique with regard to their personal financial situation. That’s why we believe in crafting your investment approach to help meet your specific needs. With such a personalized approach, we can deliver a wide range of investment management layers that can help to reduce investment risk, potentially create tax efficient strategies, and address your charitable interests along with effective wealth transfer to the next generation.
Alternative Investments
Morgan Stanley offers the leading Alternative Investment platform in the industry. In our complex and evolving investment landscape, it’s becoming more important than ever to consider diverse strategies to help manage risk, reduce volatility, and deliver more predictable growth. We offer clients access to market leading opportunities in non-public markets like private equity, distressed debt, private real estate, and much more.
Experience
With decades of combined industry experience*, we help our clients navigate the investment markets, while also providing a world-class suite of wealth management services from a global industry leader: Morgan Stanley. In today’s world, there are many choices available to investors, and we seek to be the optimum choice for you and your family.
*For more information about individual years of experience, please see the individual bios pages.
*For more information about individual years of experience, please see the individual bios pages.
Contact us to find out why The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley can be that choice for you and your loved ones.
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We believe financial education leads to better insights into our investment strategy and discipline, and ultimately, better long-term decisions. As a result, we are committed to providing you with important information about managing your wealth more effectively in today's global markets.
We have assembled the following resources that reinforce the fundamental investment strategies and concepts of our practice. We've provided links to these materials, where available, and hope you'll return often to learn more about the topics that impact your overall wealth.
We have assembled the following resources that reinforce the fundamental investment strategies and concepts of our practice. We've provided links to these materials, where available, and hope you'll return often to learn more about the topics that impact your overall wealth.
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Meet The Blake Group
Andrew Blake, CFA
Senior Vice President, Wealth Management, Financial Advisor, Portfolio Management Director
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(612) 340-6767(612) 340-6767
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About James Blake
James Blake is a Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor, and Portfolio Management Director with The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley. With decades of industry experience, Jim has built a reputation for providing sound investment management and holistic financial guidance for ultra-high net worth families, their businesses and their foundations.
Jim holds both a B.A. and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from the University of St. Thomas. Prior to co-founding The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley, he served as a financial advisor and portfolio manager at Dain Rauscher, Paine Webber and UBS. Throughout his distinguished career, his client-focused accomplishments have garnered various industry recognitions and awards. In 2010, he joined Morgan Stanley in order to equip his clients with the investment platforms and family office resources of a world-class financial institution.
In partnership with his son Andrew, Jim provides a tailored, multigenerational wealth management approach for ultra-high net worth families. His areas of experience include legacy planning and family governance, and with many clients he collaborates closely with their accountants and attorneys to help maintain streamlined wealth transfer strategies. Holding the elite Portfolio Management Director designation, he helps create highly personalized, tax-aware, and goal-oriented asset management strategies.
For business owners, Jim brings a long-term financial perspective to wealth creation, cash management, generational transitions, and exit strategies. At the end of the day, his only goal is to help clients translate their successful present into a successful future, a secure retirement, and a lasting legacy.
Outside the office, Jim lives between Wayzata, MN and Naples, FL. In his free time, he enjoys golf, boating, fitness, and spending time with his family.
Jim holds both a B.A. and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from the University of St. Thomas. Prior to co-founding The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley, he served as a financial advisor and portfolio manager at Dain Rauscher, Paine Webber and UBS. Throughout his distinguished career, his client-focused accomplishments have garnered various industry recognitions and awards. In 2010, he joined Morgan Stanley in order to equip his clients with the investment platforms and family office resources of a world-class financial institution.
In partnership with his son Andrew, Jim provides a tailored, multigenerational wealth management approach for ultra-high net worth families. His areas of experience include legacy planning and family governance, and with many clients he collaborates closely with their accountants and attorneys to help maintain streamlined wealth transfer strategies. Holding the elite Portfolio Management Director designation, he helps create highly personalized, tax-aware, and goal-oriented asset management strategies.
For business owners, Jim brings a long-term financial perspective to wealth creation, cash management, generational transitions, and exit strategies. At the end of the day, his only goal is to help clients translate their successful present into a successful future, a secure retirement, and a lasting legacy.
Outside the office, Jim lives between Wayzata, MN and Naples, FL. In his free time, he enjoys golf, boating, fitness, and spending time with his family.
Securities Agent: WI, VA, OR, ND, TX, DC, WA, NY, IA, DE, UT, SD, RI, PA, IL, CT, CA, AK, NV, NM, MT, MS, ID, AR, SC, NC, MN, CO, OH, NJ, AL, GA, MI, MD, MO, MA, KS, IN, FL, AZ; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1282413
NMLS#: 1282413
About Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake is a Senior Vice President, Wealth Management, Financial Advisor, and Portfolio Management Director with The Blake Group at Morgan Stanley. For over a decade, Andrew has helped ultra-high net worth families secure and simplify their complex financial lives with a holistic wealth management approach.
A University of St. Thomas graduate, Andrew began his career in wealth management in 2011 as a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley. Always seeking to enhance his offering, he went on to become a Chartered Financial Analyst® –– an elite designation that speaks to his comprehensive skillset and unwavering professional ethics. Along with numerous Firm awards, Andrew was named a Forbes Top Next Generation Wealth Advisor in 2018*, which recognized America’s top-tier advisors under the age of 40.
Partnering with his father Jim, Andrew focuses on helping families achieve their long-term objectives, protect their families, and sustain a legacy of excellence. As a Portfolio Management Director, he provides clients with tailored investment solutions ranging from traditional stocks and bonds to alternative investments like private equity, real estate, and other non-market-correlated assets. First and foremost, his goal is to manage risk and help ensure that clients’ portfolios align with their overall financial plan. Complementing his own deep experience with Morgan Stanley’s global intellectual capital, Andrew guides clients through every aspect of ultra-high net worth –– from estate planning and family governance, to cash management, lending, and charitable giving.
Outside the office, Andrew lives in Deephaven, MN with his wife and their dog, Maple. An active member of his community, he currently serves on the Board of Directors for Global Minnesota. In his free time, he enjoys mentoring students, golfing, and hiking with his family.
*2018 - Forbes Top 1,000 Next Gen Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded Jul 2018) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on time period from 3/31/17 - 3/31/18.
A University of St. Thomas graduate, Andrew began his career in wealth management in 2011 as a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley. Always seeking to enhance his offering, he went on to become a Chartered Financial Analyst® –– an elite designation that speaks to his comprehensive skillset and unwavering professional ethics. Along with numerous Firm awards, Andrew was named a Forbes Top Next Generation Wealth Advisor in 2018*, which recognized America’s top-tier advisors under the age of 40.
Partnering with his father Jim, Andrew focuses on helping families achieve their long-term objectives, protect their families, and sustain a legacy of excellence. As a Portfolio Management Director, he provides clients with tailored investment solutions ranging from traditional stocks and bonds to alternative investments like private equity, real estate, and other non-market-correlated assets. First and foremost, his goal is to manage risk and help ensure that clients’ portfolios align with their overall financial plan. Complementing his own deep experience with Morgan Stanley’s global intellectual capital, Andrew guides clients through every aspect of ultra-high net worth –– from estate planning and family governance, to cash management, lending, and charitable giving.
Outside the office, Andrew lives in Deephaven, MN with his wife and their dog, Maple. An active member of his community, he currently serves on the Board of Directors for Global Minnesota. In his free time, he enjoys mentoring students, golfing, and hiking with his family.
*2018 - Forbes Top 1,000 Next Gen Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded Jul 2018) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on time period from 3/31/17 - 3/31/18.
Securities Agent: AR, TX, SD, MT, MN, LA, WI, NM, NJ, GA, CO, AL, PA, MA, DE, VT, RI, OR, SC, NY, NV, KS, IA, FL, AZ, UT, IN, DC, WA, VA, MO, MS, MD, IL, ID, OH, ND, CT, AK, NC, MI, CA; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1347336
NMLS#: 1347336
About Jon P Hoffman
Jon Hoffman is a seasoned professional in the field of wealth management. With an impressive tenure of 58 years at Morgan Stanley and a total of 59 years of industry experience, Jon has a wealth of knowledge and experience.
One of Jon’s most notable professional accomplishments is his membership in the original Smith Barney Presidents Club in 1983, a testament to his dedication and exceptional performance in the industry.
Outside of his professional life, Jon is an avid golfer, having played in two national amateurs in 1961 at Pebble Beach and 1968 at Scioto. His passion for golf showcases his commitment to precision and strategy, traits that are also evident in his professional life.
Jon holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Houston, obtained in 1964. His educational background has provided him with a solid foundation for his successful career.
Despite his many accomplishments, Jon remains focused on providing exceptional service to his clients. His extensive experience, coupled with his dedication to his clients’ financial success, truly sets him apart in the field.
One of Jon’s most notable professional accomplishments is his membership in the original Smith Barney Presidents Club in 1983, a testament to his dedication and exceptional performance in the industry.
Outside of his professional life, Jon is an avid golfer, having played in two national amateurs in 1961 at Pebble Beach and 1968 at Scioto. His passion for golf showcases his commitment to precision and strategy, traits that are also evident in his professional life.
Jon holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Houston, obtained in 1964. His educational background has provided him with a solid foundation for his successful career.
Despite his many accomplishments, Jon remains focused on providing exceptional service to his clients. His extensive experience, coupled with his dedication to his clients’ financial success, truly sets him apart in the field.
Securities Agent: WI, MA, NM, NC, DE, MT, NV, KS, IA, IN, WA, CO, PA, NY, SD, SC, AL, MO, MI, VA, OH, TX, CA, MD, MS, MN, NJ, FL, OR, OK, UT, ND, IL, AZ, GA, DC, CT, ID, AR; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1468442
NMLS#: 1468442
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