Our Story and Services

As your Financial Advisors, we can help you define and strive to meet your goals by delivering a vast array of resources to you in the way that is most appropriate for how you invest and what you want to achieve. Working together we can help you to preserve and grow your wealth. You’ll have access to some of the world’s most seasoned and respected investment professionals, a premier trading and execution platform and a full spectrum of investment choices.

The Emerald Group has been named to the 2024 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams Ranking

Source: Forbes.com (Awarded Jan 2024) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based for the period from 3/31/22–3/31/23.
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Our Suite of Services

As your wealth grows, so does its complexities and the resources needed to manage it effectively. We leverage our experience and relationships to deliver innovative strategies that are tailored to your needs. We look forward to speaking with you to understand your challenges, so we may map out a strategy to help achieve your particular priorities and goals.
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    Wealth Management
    Wealth Management brings all the dimensions of your life together. We listen carefully to understand the connections across your personal life, your family, your career and your legacy goals to develop a comprehensive strategy that is uniquely yours.
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    Retirement Planning
    One of our key areas of focus is helping you prepare for and thrive in retirement. From IRAs to RMDs, we manage the complexities of your comprehensive retirement plan assets, helping you easily transition to the next phase of your life with security and confidence.
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    Professional Portfolio Management
    Managing an investment portfolio should be a consultative, disciplined process that balances your attitudes about investing with careful analysis of the financial markets. Working together, we create a customized strategy that applies long-held investment principles to help your assets appreciate appropriately, generate cash-flow or create income as you require.
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    Cash Management Services
    Creating adequate cash flow and securing liquidity are the day-to-day aspects of implementing a financial strategy. We help you meet your personal cash management and borrowing needs, while thinking strategically about how specific approaches may affect current and long-term costs and taxes.
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    Estate Planning & Philanthropic Strategies
    Delivering an estate to the next generation or favorite charity requires more attention than families often realize. We coordinate with your estate and tax professionals to align your legacy goals with the appropriate asset titling and beneficiary designation requirements, incorporating best practices to enhance results.
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    Business Planning
    Focusing on the factors that make a difference in your business- from your perspective on ownership, control and liquidity, to the key challenges and opportunities you may face.

Working together to simplify your finances

Our comprehensive suite of digital tools are designed to help enhance various aspects of your financial life. Here are a few of the technologies we have to offer our clients.
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    Morgan Stanley Online & Mobile App
    Seamlessly and securely manage your investments and everyday finances in one place with Morgan Stanley Online (MSO) and the Morgan Stanley Mobile App.
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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.
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    Financial Management Tools
    Managing multiple financial accounts across different firms can be complicated. With Morgan Stanley Online, you can link you non-Morgan Stanley accounts and analyze your cash flow all in one place.
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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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    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.
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    Portfolio Risk Platform – Powered by Aladdin
    Portfolio Risk Platform – Powered by Aladdin is a risk management platform that provides comprehensive risk estimation and reporting across a broad range of asset classes and security types. This platform provides a holistic view to better enable risk to be effectively monitored and managed.
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Protecting Your Online Security

Your security is our top priority. Morgan Stanley proactively defends our systems and monitors our digital landscapes to anticipate issues before they arise and respond appropriately when they do.

The firm is actively supporting multiple layers of security. Security includes the following; Strong encryption protocols designed to protect your data, continuous monitoring to help detect and prevent fraudulent activity in your accounts, routine testing of our systems to identify potential vulnerabilities, and independent reviews by outside security firms to penetration test our applications and evaluate our processes.
Cybersecurity Best Practices
  • Safeguarding your personal information is one of our highest priorities. While we are all continuing to work from home we find ourselves utilizing technology more now than ever. We believe these 5 easy and important cybersecurity habits will help to protect you from cyber and fraud risk.
Security Features and Proactive Defense
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Alerts and Notifications
  • Automatic Session Time Out
  • VoiceID
  • Fraud Detection and Prevention
  • Digital Tools
  • Cybersecurity Fusion Centers
  • Threat Landscape Monitoring
  • Employee Training and Testing

Financial Wellness

Morgan Stanley Financial Wellness is a holistic offering available for your employees, designed to help them reduce financial stress and empower them to plan, prepare and reach their financial goals.
Morgan Stanley has developed comprehensive and diverse solutions to meet the needs of ALL employee bands within corporations, hospitals, law firms, accounting firms, engineering firms, medical practices, dental practices, unions, associations, etc.
Our programs can be tailored to provide solutions for c-suite executives who require complex tax and wealth planning strategies, mid-level managers who require detailed financial plans and junior employees who require a suite of educational tools and calculators to help assist with important financial goals and life events.

Program features include:
MS Financial Wellness Portal:
Connecting your employees with My Secure Advantage, an independent financial coaching service, to provide guidance on budgeting, debt management and credit issues.
On-Site Seminars and Webinars:
We work closely with corporations to identify seminar topics of interest, which are then deliver by our experienced practitioners.
Comprehensive Financial Planning:
We engage with employees to understand their values, priorities, and goals for the future, and work with them to develop wealth strategies and implement solutions to help them meet their objectives.
A key differentiator of Morgan Stanley is our ability to deliver both wealth planning and wealth plan implementation services, eliminating the need for an executive/employee to seek additional resources to execute a financial plan once formulated. We utilize an open architecture wealth management platform that provides a diverse suite of investment products, allowing us to act as a trusted advisor by offering solutions that best meet our client’s needs.

Location

1200 Franklin Avenue 2nd
Fl
Garden City, NY 11530
US
Direct:
(516) 248-8600(516) 248-8600

Meet The Emerald Wealth Management Group

About Thomas Morrissey

My goal is to thoroughly understand your financial needs and then align the resources to help you meet or exceed them. I can help you evaluate near-term concerns and plan for long-term goals, be a sounding board for investment ideas, assist you in developing and executing a strategy that is precisely your own and helps you meet your needs.

I welcome a connection if you are looking to work with a dynamic financial services team in the greater NY area and would benefit from the ability to simplify your financial life.

The Emerald Group has been named to the 2024 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams Ranking

Source: Forbes.com (Awarded Jan 2024) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based for the period from 3/31/22–3/31/23.
Securities Agent: PA, CO, VA, NJ, MD, KY, HI, NY, FL, RI, NM, AR, TX, GA, AZ, UT, WA, LA, TN, MA, NH, MI, VT, SC, NC, ME, IL, DE, DC, CA, WY, OH, CT; General Securities Principal; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 577643

About Sean Lane

Sean Lane is a Senior Vice President at Morgan Stanley. Sean helps clients manage, grow, preserve, and transfer their wealth by providing timely, and comprehensive financial advice.

For over 28 years, Sean has been working with wealthy families, individuals, and endowments and foundations. He was awarded an honors Post-Graduate Diploma in Business and a B.A. from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He holds a Certificate in Advanced Financial Planning from NYU, and has earned both the Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Planner designations. He is a member of the CFA Institute, The New York Society of Securities Analysts, and the Financial Planners Association.

A first-generation Irish American born in New York, Sean is deeply involved in his community. He is Chairman of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade and cofounder of the St. Patrick’s Day Foundation. He is on the advisory board of the 69th Regimental Trust, the Irish National Theatre, the Galway University Foundation, and the Leadership Circle for the Northwell Health Department of Medicine. In 2017, Sean was appointed as an honorary member of the 69th Regiment for services to the military by the U.S. Secretary of Army. Sean Lives in Garden City, NY with his wife and their two children.

The Emerald Group has been named to the 2024 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams Ranking

Source: Forbes.com (Awarded Jan 2024) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based for the period from 3/31/22–3/31/23.
Securities Agent: CA, DC, OH, NC, KY, HI, TN, RI, LA, AZ, NM, NJ, MI, ME, IL, UT, FL, CT, AR, VT, VA, DE, SC, PA, NY, MA, TX, NH, MD, GA, CO, WY, WA; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 574467

About Me

Securities Agent: WA, AR, VT, SC, RI, NM, MI, IL, AZ, TN, KY, DC, CO, WY, ME, MA, OH, VA, PA, NJ, NH, LA, HI, NY, NC, DE, CA, CT, UT, NE, MD, GA, TX, FL; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 602175

About Thomas McGinley

Securities Agent: MA, AR, KY, WA, DE, TN, NC, HI, RI, ME, IL, AZ, WY, VT, NY, NM, MD, LA, NE, CO, TX, SC, OH, NJ, NH, DC, UT, MI, VA, PA, FL, GA, CT, CA; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 578214

The Power of Partnerships

By partnering with experienced individuals across wealth disciplines, Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors can align specialized resources with your custom needs and deliver strategic guidance through the familiarity and trust of existing relationships

About Breno Vilete

Breno Vilete is an Associate Private Banker serving Morgan Stanley Wealth Management offices in New York.

Associate Private Bankers partner with Private Bankers and Financial Advisors to develop a specialized approach for managing clients’ cash flow, liquidity and financing needs, leveraging our comprehensive suite of cash management and lending solutions.

Breno began his career in financial services in 2011, and joined Morgan Stanley in 2022 as an Associate Private Banker. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Senior Relationship Banker at Santander Bank. He also served as a Wealth Strategy Associate at UBS.

Breno is a graduate of the Kean University, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Finance. He lives in Wantagh, New York. Outside of the office, Breno enjoys riding his peloton, working out, and watching movies.
NMLS#: 910208
Wealth Management
Global Investment Office

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.

Investing

Working closely with you to guide your wealth and investments through the most challenging market cycles.
  • Asset Management
  • Wealth Planning
  • Traditional Investments
  • Alternative Investments
  • Impact Investing
2025 Global Economic Outlook: U.S. Policies May Temper Global Growth
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2025 Global Economic Outlook: U.S. Policies May Temper Global Growth

Global growth is likely to be around 3% in 2025 and 2026, as tariff and immigration policies begin to slow the U.S. economy late next year, and China's underperformance restrains emerging markets.

Family

Creating customized financial strategies for the challenges that today’s families face.
  • Estate Planning Strategies
  • 529 Plans / Education Savings Planning
  • Long Term Care Insurance
  • Special Needs Planning
  • Trust Services
Taking Control of Your Finances After Death of a Spouse
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Taking Control of Your Finances After Death of a Spouse

Financial planning after a divorce or death can be trying, but with the right approach and the right advice you can turn a difficult situation into empowerment.

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.

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 Emerald Wealth Management Group today.
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