About Sharon L Washburn
Sharon Washburn is a Vice President and financial planner with The Clements Group at Morgan Stanley in the firm’s Spring Valley branch. She has more than three decades of experience in financial services. She has been with Morgan Stanley and predecessor firms since July 1993.
Prior to joining The Clements Group in 2017, Sharon was with a retirement planning group at Morgan Stanley focusing on estate planning strategies and retirement planning. There, she gained valuable experience working with estates and helping families fully understand the estate planning process.
Known for her strong desire to empower clients through education, Sharon serves high-net-worth individuals, foundations and Fortune 500 companies and their employee plans. She is highly adept at working with corporate stock plans, including option, purchase and restricted stock plans. Sharon has worked with The Clements Group’s Executive Financial Services team, which is responsible for Rule 144 stock sales and 10b5-1 sales plans, and has proven to be an excellent collaborator with financial teams of individual investors to make sure they have a sound strategy in place for their stock awards.
Sharon is also extremely skilled at helping individuals navigate the financial issues that arise due to major life changes, such as marriage, death, employment and divorce. She is Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® and a member of The Institute for Divorced Financial Analysts. While high stress often accompanies major life changes, Sharon serves as a reassuring beacon of light for her clients during these periods because she is personally familiar with the rigors of change, having grown up in a military family that moved five times during her youth.
Sharon is a graduate of The University of Texas at Arlington, where in 1986 she earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Following graduation, she worked for Judson Malkin & Bloom (JMB), concentrating on real estate limited partnerships. In 1989, she joined PaineWebber (now UBS).
In her free time, Sharon enjoys listening to music, traveling and spending time with her adorable dog, Ranger and cats Loui and Tanner. A resident of North Dallas, she’s an avid sports fan and supports all of the teams in the Dallas Metroplex, although The Cowboys and Mavs are testing fans patience -- in addition to several charities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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