

The Buenavista Larson Group at Morgan Stanley

Our Mission Statement
Our Story and Services
LIFE IS ABOUT A LOT MORE THAN WEALTH
After many years in the industry, we know how important financial security is for all facets of a person's life. Whether it's your family, your career, your passions, or even your day-to-day peace of mind. As advisors, our team has a simple mission: to weave what makes you unique with your life goals and your financial strategy, and to help make sure that the resulting plan is seamless.
OUR RELATIONSHIPS ARE PARTNERSHIPS
We don't assume a conventional path to your future. We build one with you –– together, step-by-step –– because we value what makes you, well, you. Every client shoulders a unique set of complex challenges and objectives. We embrace that complexity with an intensely client-centric approach. We'll offer our insights and opinions, but we're also going to make sure they align with your thinking.
EXPERIENCE. CARE. RESOURCES.
Put simply, we're a highly-experienced team backed by world-class resources. Over the years, we've helped all sorts of clients navigate all types of markets. We've helped them establish tax-efficient strategies as they start a family or enter retirement; sell their successful businesses so they can pursue their next passion; sort through complicated insurance needs to provide cash flow and protection; and carefully consider ever changing legacy goals as life presents change. With Morgan Stanley's resources, technology, and intellectual capital behind us, we're able to help find strategic solutions to your most complex challenges.
2025 FORBES BEST IN STATE WEALTH MANAGEMENT TEAM
We are honored to have been named as a 2025 Forbes Best in State Wealth Management Team in Northern California. This recognition reflects our teams dedication to providing unparalleled guidance to our wonderful clients to support their unique goals.
For a second opinion about your current investments, or to talk about your goals, please call us at (650) 687-2109.
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded Jan 2025). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on time period from 3/31/23-3/31/24.
- Financial PlanningFootnote1
- Business PlanningFootnote2
- Business Succession PlanningFootnote3
- Asset Management
- Wealth ManagementFootnote4
- Retirement PlanningFootnote5
- Estate Planning StrategiesFootnote6
- Cash Management and Lending ProductsFootnote7
- Long-term Care InsuranceFootnote8
- Life InsuranceFootnote9
- AnnuitiesFootnote10
- 401(k) Rollovers
- Planning for Education FundingFootnote11
- Alternative InvestmentsFootnote12
Our Clients
Especially in Silicon Valley, young professionals and executives can find themselves accumulating wealth at a rapid pace. And because of the everyday demands of their jobs, they need help managing that wealth, protecting it, and translating it into financial security for their loved ones. Our team does just that. We have the capacity and longevity to help you for decades to come.
Business Owners
For business owners, retirement can be an especially difficult transition. Because they are often deeply connected to their businesses, working out the complexities of fair-minded valuing and practical selling of their companies can be daunting. We work with business owners across the Bay Area and beyond, helping them on both fronts. So that they can pursue their next venture –– whatever that means for them.
Families & Family Offices
Our team takes great pride in helping families achieve their multigenerational goals. Because at the end of the day, our loved ones are our most important asset. But family matters can also be the trickiest to navigate financially. That’s why we collaborate with your professional network, meet with your adult children and grandchildren, and leverage Morgan Stanley’s vast resources on your behalf. It helps ensure your legacy will always be consultative, coordinated, and comprehensive.
Our Role
Early in my career, I was at a dinner with one of my clients. She was wealthy and in the later stages of her life. At this dinner, she talked for hours about her family’s history –– about the legacy her parents and grandparents had already built, and about how she wanted to continue to grow that legacy for her own children and grandchildren.
It was fascinating to me. Beautiful even. And it spoke right to the heart of what being a financial advisor is all about. First and foremost, it’s about people. It’s about understanding where they come from –– the stories and legacies that shape who they are –– and then putting that knowledge in service of their future with a financial plan that truly reflects their core values and perspectives. That’s exactly what we did.
Multiple Generations
Of course, as times change, so do needs, challenges, and objectives. This is particularly true in the entrepreneurial culture of the Bay Area. When we began to work with our clients’ adult children –– who worked as young professionals and executives, mostly in the tech space –– we helped them translate her original legacy into a financial strategy for the 21st Century.
We helped them manage their equity packages throughout their career and into retirement. We helped them set up 529s for their children’s college educations. We helped them decide when to make large purchases, what age to retire, and how to achieve greater tax-efficiency in our complex regulatory landscape. Merging our own experience with the cutting-edge technology and resources of Morgan Stanley –– we helped them chart a customized, data-driven path to the future they envision. And we continue to do so today.
Takeaway
With all our clients, we strive to understand the trajectory –– past, present, and future –– of their family’s wealth, so that we can continue to help them protect that legacy for generations to come.
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About Joseph Constante Buenavista
NMLS#: 558124
CA Insurance License #: 0k01533
About Louis Charles Larson
NMLS#: 700539
CA Insurance License #: 0E17294

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12Alternative 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.
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