Welcome

Welcome to The Corcoran Ciarelli Group at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management.

We find multi-generational wealth is different and deserves substantially different advice and care. Families come to us for our unbiased advice, decades of experience and passion for helping our clients achieve their goals. Families stay with us for our candor, transparency, competence and attention to detail.

We are a team of seven financial professionals with distinctive talents and diverse backgrounds. We provide guidance striving to: monetize the sale of a business, diversify out of a concentrated stock position, maintain and enhance a lifestyle, preserve an inheritance, leave an enduring legacy and use customized lending to unlock liquidity.
We welcome the opportunity to learn more about you and your family, and discuss the many ways we can help you manage your wealth.

Recognition:

  • Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams 2023 & 2024
  • Barron's Top 1200 Financial Advisors 2012-2024
  • Barron's America's Top Financial Advisors 2016-2022
  • Forbes Best-In-State Advisors 2019-2024
  • Forbes Top Next-Gen Advisors 2017-2021

2023, 2024 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams
Source: Forbes.com (January 2023 - January 2024) 2023-2024 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams ranking awarded in 2023-2024. This ranking was determined based on an evaluation process conducted by SHOOK Research LLC (the research company) in partnership with Forbes (the publisher) during the period from 3/31/21 – 3/31/23.

2012-2024 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: Barron's (March 2012-2024) Barron's Top 1,200 Financial Advisors: State-by-State ranking awarded in 2012-2024. This ranking was determined based on an evaluation process conducted by Barron's for the period from Oct 2011-Sept 2023

2016-2022 - Barron's Top 100 Financial Advisors (formerly referred to as Barron's Top 1,000 Financial Advisors: State-by-State)
Source: Barron's.com (April 2016-2022) 2016-2022 Barron's Top 100 Financial Advisors awarded in 2016-2022. This ranking was determined based on an evaluation process conducted by Barron's during the period from Dec 2015 - Dec 2021

2019-2024 - Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (April 2019-2024) 2019-2024 Forbes America's Top Wealth Advisors and Best-In- State Wealth Advisors rankings awarded in 2019-2024. This ranking was determined based on an evaluation process conducted by SHOOK Research LLC (the research company) in partnership with Forbes (the publisher) for the period from 6/30/18-6/30/23.

2017-2021 - Forbes America's Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors & Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors Best-in-State (formerly referred to as Forbes America's Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors, Forbes Top 1,000 Next-Gen Wealth Advisors, Forbes Top 500 Next Generation Wealth Advisors)
Source: Forbes.com (Sept 2017-2021) 2021 Forbes America's Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors ranking awarded in 2017-2021. This ranking was determined based on an evaluation process conducted by SHOOK Research LLC (the research company) in partnership with Forbes (the publisher) during the period from 3/31/16 - 3/31/21.

Capabilities
  • Comprehensive Wealth Planning
  • Tax, Trust & Estate AdvisoryFootnote1
  • Family Governance & Wealth Education
  • Pre-Liquidity Planning
  • Investment Management
  • Consolidated Reporting
  • Open-Architecture Platform
  • Sustainable & Responsible InvestingFootnote2
  • 10b5-(1) Programs
  • Tailored LendingFootnote3
  • Lifestyle Advisory ServicesFootnote4
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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 350 teams1 specialized in assisting individuals and families with $20MM+ in investable assets
  • Over $980 billion in AUM1
  • Comprising 23% of the Barron’s Top 250 Private Wealth Management Teams for 2024
  • 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, 2024

Source: Barron's.com (May 2024) 2024 Barron's Top 250 Private Wealth Management Teams awarded in 2024. The teams are ranked on a variety of factors, including their size and shape, their regulatory records and credentials of their members, and the resources they have at their disposal to serve their client bases. The rankings are meant as a starting point for clients looking for an advisor—a first-pass vetting that can help investors narrow a search. Every advisor will have his or her own approach to investing, financial planning, and other services. Clients are encouraged to approach a search for an advisor the way they would a search for a doctor—interviewing multiple professionals and getting opinions from multiple third parties. 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.

Our Process

At Morgan Stanley, we believe that identifying 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 solution that helps meet your individual needs. This process aligns our efforts with your interests, providing a road map focused on what is most important to you.
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    Step 1: 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.
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    Step 2: 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.
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    Step 3: 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.
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    Step 4: 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.
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    Step 5: 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.
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    Step 6: 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.

A Global Firm

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    Our Core Values
    Since our founding in 1935, Morgan Stanley has consistently delivered first-class business in a first-class way. Underpinning all that we do are five core values.
    Five Core Values
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    A Track Record of Success
    Watch various episodes that capture Morgan Stanley's success during eras of both prosperity and strife throughout our 87 year history.
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    Cybersecurity for Families
    Whatever your cybersecurity needs, our innovate technology can help you evaluate the particular challenges of your situation to best address the vital issue of staying safe in an increasingly complex digital world.
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    Trust & Estate Planning
    Having a conversation around one's estate and legacy is never easy. Our team will be with you every step of the way to analyze your estate structures so that your needs are efficiently and thoroughly addressed.
    Common Questions
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    Philanthropic Goals
    Magnify the impact of your philanthropic efforts by defining a clear mission and maintaining your focus, including advice on how to govern your family foundation to maintain alignment with your goals.
    How to Sharpen Your Philanthropic Focus
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    Family Governance
    Most families either never address their governance needs or wait until they are in the midst of a crisis - picking up the pieces afterwards - before they finally get serious about creating and implementing a robust family governance system.
    What Makes a Sound Governance System?

IN THE COMMUNITY

In alignment with our core values, we believe that we have a responsibility to give back to the community. While our business exists to serve our clients and their families, we have the opportunity and privilege to contribute to the greater good. Our team members are committed to giving both their time and capital to various initiatives that benefit society.

Collectively and individually, we support:
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    American Red Cross
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    Barnes Foundation
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    Cradles to Crayons
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    French Bulldog Rescue Network
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    Life Science Cares Philadelphia
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    Nothing But Nets
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    Philadelphia Education Fund
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    St. Jude
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    Sun Rae Foundation

Location

100 Front St
Ste 600
West Conshohocken, PA 19428
US
Direct:
(610) 260-7082(610) 260-7082
Fax:
(212) 507-1197(212) 507-1197
1650 Market Street
42nd FL
Philadelphia, PA 19103
US

Meet The Corcoran Ciarelli Group

About Richard Corcoran

Rich is a Managing Director and Alternative Investments Director at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in West Conshohocken.

With over 20 years of experience at Morgan Stanley, Rich brings extensive expertise working with multi-generational families and sophisticated individual investors. As a Private Wealth Advisor at Morgan Stanley, Rich's areas of specialization include portfolio construction integrated with estate planning structures, investment management, capital markets and alternative investments.

Rich earned an MBA from Columbia University and graduated cum laude from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in both Finance and Economics. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Rich is a Board Member of the Philadelphia Education Fund, where he is also a member of the Executive Committee and the Chair of the Ed Fund’s Philadelphia Scholars Program advisory committee. Rich is also an active alumni of the University of Delaware, where he is currently an Advisory Committee member for the University's Women's Leadership Initiative. In addition, Rich was a founding member of the University of Delaware’s Financial Planning Advisory Board, and past President of the University’s Lerner College of Business and Economics Alumni Board of Directors.


Recognition

• 2012-2024 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 2012-2024). Data compiled by Barron's based on 12-month period concluding in Sept of the year prior to the issuance of the award.


• 2019-2023 Forbes Best-In- State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2019-2023). 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: SC, VT, WV, WA, VA, UT, TX, DE, TN, PR, PA, OR, OH, NY, NV, NM, NJ, OK, NC, MI, MD, MA, LA, IL, HI, ME, GA, FL, DC, CT, CO, CA, AZ, AL, AK; BM/Supervisor; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1278703

About Brett Ciarelli

Brett is an Executive Director and Executive Financial Services Director at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in West Conshohocken.

With nearly 20 years of experience at Morgan Stanley, Brett brings extensive expertise in working with corporate executives and owners of private companies. As a Private Wealth Advisor at Morgan Stanley, Brett specializes in executive compensation, pre & post liquidity planning and long-term financial planning.

Brett earned a B.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from The George Washington University while participating in the University Honors Program.

Brett currently lives in Center City Philadelphia with his wife Jackie, their children Dillon and Parker, and their French Bulldog Penny. In his free time, Brett enjoys yoga, hiking, and traveling. Brett serves on The Barnes Foundation Professionals Advisors Council and Life Science Cares Philadelphia Advisory Board.

Recognition

• Forbes America's Top Next-Generation Wealth Advisors: 2017-2021
• Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors: 2018-2023

Awards Disclosures: https://www.morganstanley.com/disclosures/awards-disclosure.html

2018-2023 Forbes Best-In- State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2018-2023). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based 12-month time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award.

2017-2021 Forbes America’s Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors & Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors Best-in-State (formerly referred to as Forbes America's Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors, Forbes Top 1,000 Next-Gen Wealth Advisors, Forbes Top 500 Next Generation Wealth Advisors)
Source: Forbes.com (2017-2021). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on 12-month period concluding in Mar of the year the award was issued.
Securities Agent: SC, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WV, MI, ME, MD, MA, IL, HI, GA, FL, DE, DC, CT, CO, CA, AZ, AK; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1293938

About Shawna Aschmies

Shawna Aschmies is a Group Director with Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. Shawna heads our client service team and is responsible for overseeing all of the group’s administrative and operational activities. Shawna serves as a main point of contact for client inquiries and operational support.

Shawna’s career in financial services began in 2007 working on the Institutional Sales Desk at Susquehanna Financial Group in New York City. Shawna’s industry experience includes operational support positions at Oppenheimer & Co, Wells Fargo, and Merrill Lynch. Shawna received a MBA in Management Information Systems and a MSc in Risk Management from Saint Peters University. Shawna holds a B.A. in Economics from Kean University.

Shawna lives with her husband; Scott and son; Sterling in Philadelphia. In her free time Shawna enjoys exploring the city and cooking.

About Isiah Myles

Isiah Myles is a Private Wealth Portfolio Management Associate for Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. Isiah earned a B.A. in Criminal Justice with a minor in Economics from Villanova University. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Isiah spent five years at Vanguard in various divisions including Brokerage & Investment Management Services.

Outside of work, Isiah enjoys working out and dancing salsa. Isiah currently resides in West Philadelphia, PA.

About Sara Egan

Sara Egan is a Private Wealth Management Associate for Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. Sara’s career in finance began in 2004 as a trader’s assistant at Douglas & Co, Municipals, Inc. in New York. She then moved to Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and eventually to Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in Philadelphia. From 2018 to 2023 she worked as an investment associate with JP Morgan Advisors before coming back to Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management to work with the Corcoran Ciarelli Group. Sara earned her B.S. in Finance from Siena College in Loudonville, New York.

Sara lives in South Philly with her husband Patrick and son Owen. In her free time, she enjoys running, tennis and spending time with family and friends.

About Logan Keller

Logan is a Client Relationship Analyst with Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in West Conshohocken. Logan is responsible for operational activities and serves as the team’s point person in executing client reports.

Logan graduated cum laude from Temple University’s Fox School of Business with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, majoring in Finance. He attended the Haverford School in PA and currently sits on the Haverford School Young Alumni Committee.

Logan currently resides in Ridley, PA. In his free time, Logan enjoys cooking, fitness, and traveling.

About Kerrie Stokes

Kerrie was a CSA at Merrill Lynch for ten years on Long Island before moving to Incheon, South Korea in 2019 where her husband was the chair of the Department of Technology and Society at SUNY Korea. They moved to Center City in March of 2021 for retirement and Kerrie went back to work at Merrill Lynch. Kerrie was at Merrill Lynch for another two years and followed an advisor to Morgan Stanley in April 2023. Kerrie holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Richmond.

Originally from Long Island, she has two daughters, Ann and Maggie who are 30 and 31.

In her free time she likes to travel with her husband and daughters and is always knitting something. She swims and goes to yoga.
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