Our Story and Services

At the Ferguson Marks Group, we understand highly successful individuals and families. Their accomplishments are often marked by good decision making and access to the broadest range of planning and investing insight--invaluable resources for seizing the right opportunities at the right time.

As Private Wealth Advisors, our team connects you to those resources--you'll benefit from direct access to the full depth and breadth of Morgan Stanley platforms and expertise. With the service and commitment of a family office, we'll address your most important priorities, and provide answers to your questions about how your complex wealth can best serve you and those you care about.

From portfolio management and pre-liquidity planning, to lending and estate planning strategies that can enhance the value of your deal, our experience and elite Morgan Stanley network will enrich your thinking and provide an ongoing source of financial opportunity today and for generations to come.


2023-2024 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded January 2024) Data compiled by SHOOK
Research LLC based on time period from 3/31/22 – 3/31/23.
Capabilities
  • Open-Architecture Platform
  • Comprehensive Wealth Planning
  • Investment Management
  • Pre-Liquidity Planning
  • Hedging Strategies
  • Philanthropy Management
  • Proprietary Investment Opportunities
  • Cash Management & LendingFootnote1
  • Tax, Trust & Estate AdvisoryFootnote2
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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 300 teams1 specialized in assisting individuals and families with $20MM+ in investable assets
  • Over $775 billion in AUM1
  • Comprising 25% of the Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisors list for 2023
  • 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, 2023

Source: Barron's.com (April 2023) 2023 Barron's Top 100 Financial Advisors awarded in 2023. This ranking was determined based on an evaluation process conducted by Barron's during the period from Dec 2020 - Dec 2021. Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC nor its Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors paid a fee to Barron's to obtain or use the ranking. This ranking is based on in-person and telephone due diligence meetings to evaluate each advisor qualitatively, a major component of a ranking algorithm that includes client retention, industry experience, review of compliance records, firm nominations, and quantitative criteria, including assets under management and revenue generated for their firms. Investment performance is not a criterion. 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.

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.

FAMILY OFFICE RESOURCES

Blending their individual and varied skillsets, the Ferguson Marks Group at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management assist ultra-high net worth clients manage their complex personal, professional, and financial lives.

Morgan Stanley’s Family Office Resources assist Private Wealth Advisors and clients manage and employ our expansive collection of specialized resources that can assist clients with the many difficult choices that come with significant wealth.
Below are some resources we use to help you navigate your finances:
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    Philanthropic Planning and Charitable Giving
    As a board member of a charity himself, Jevin, as well as his team, work hard to comprehend and uncover what causes you care about most. Our team is able to assist you in strategically and intentionally giving to the charities and philanthropies you admire while keeping your asset allocation and tax efficiency in mind.
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    Trust & Estate Planning
    Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management’s Wealth and Estate Planning Strategists assess every feature of a client’s estate to better grasp their unique tax and estate structures. With this understanding, we help our clients make immensely educated investment decisions with your full estate, personal, and financial picture in mind.
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    Executive Compensation - Stock & Stock Options
    As stock and stock options are increasingly popular ways to receive compensation, our team recognizes that our clients need to be taught the best way to receive these options and the tax treatment of them. Click below to see a general overview of basic rules for stock and stock options.
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    Pre-Liquidity Event Planning
    There is immense income and estate planning opportunities that coincide with unique liquidity events such as IPOs or merger and acquisitions. Leading up to these events, it is important to create and update various estate planning documents. In addition, our team assist you in income tax and wealth transfer strategies prior to these liquidity events and sales.
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    Investing With Impact
    Morgan Stanley’s Investing with Impact helps you to invest by both creating a positive environmental, social, and corporate governance impact while also attempting to reach market rate returns.
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OUR CLIENTS

Our team works to address the specific financial demands and difficult time constraints that affect accomplished investors, entrepreneurs, and successful executives. We help generations to come and create a positive impact on your life and business by protecting and growing our client’s financial, family and social capital.
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    Public Company Executives
    Our team has been successfully helping C-Suite executives with their personal and professional financial needs for many years. Some of the services we provide are: reviewing incentive compensation packages and providing solutions for concentrated equity positions. These solutions include, and are not limited to, 10b5-1 plans, exchange funds, hedging strategies, and other diversification strategies.
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    Pre-IPO Planning
    To allow you to work on the numerous aspects of taking a company public, our team assist you in taking the right steps to manage your financial goals in a tax efficient way. Some of these steps include discussions about Qualified Small Business Stock, wealth transfer strategies, and option exercises analysis.
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    Venture Capital and Private Equity Partners
    There are many specific wealth management concerns that come from investing in private companies. We strive to give you original solutions to help with your personal and business’ asset allocation, liabilities, risk, philanthropy management as well as trust and estate structures.
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    Entrepreneurs
    With our many years of experience working with privately-owned company founders and executives, our team can assist with the complicated and particular challenges that arise from forming a new business and planning for a prospective liquidity event. We help by providing advice and resources at imperative stages in your personal and professional life.
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    Business Owner
    Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management helps hundreds of business owners in various industries around the world by providing knowledge, expertise, and resources to carry out transitions, support, sales, etc. We work with our clients to help them avoid any pitfalls, analyze all possible options, and provide you with sound advice to reap the most financial benefits of your hard work.
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Location

800 Newport Center Dr.
Ste 500
Newport Beach, CA 92660
US
Direct:
(949) 717-5372(949) 717-5372

Meet The Ferguson Marks Group

About Jevin Ferguson

As a Private Wealth Advisor, Jevin Ferguson works with a select number of highly successful individuals and families, many of whom have sold a business, taken a business public, attained a new level of professional success or undergone a family transition. Regardless of the source of wealth, Jevin leverages the global reach and resources of Morgan Stanley to bring thoughtful solutions to address the financial needs of his clients and their families.

For more than 20 years, Jevin has been developing deep relationships with his clients, carefully guiding them through complex needs and decisions that arise in their lives. Jevin is honored to be named as one of Forbes' Best-in-State Wealth Advisors in 2018, 2021 and 2022. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Jevin served as a Senior Vice President at UBS and was a member of the UBS Chairman Club in 2018. Jevin also served as Vice President for Smith Barney in Newport Beach, CA. Jevin received his B.S. from the University of Utah.

Outside of work, Jevin is on the board of CharityVision, a non-profit organization with a focus on creating solutions to the worldwide blindness epidemic. He is an eagle scout and loves to surf, snow ski and travel. Jevin and his wife Nicole live in San Clemente, CA with their four children.


2021, 2022, & 2023 Forbes Best-In- State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2021, 2022, 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: AL, WY, WI, WA, VA, UT, TX, TN, SC, PA, OR, OH, NY, NV, NJ, NE, ND, NC, MT, MN, MI, MD, MA, KY, IL, ID, IA, FL, DE, DC, CT, CO, CA, AZ; BM/Supervisor; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1837025
CA Insurance License #: 0D96276

About Daniel Marks

With nearly 20 years of experience providing comprehensive solutions for a select group of clients, Daniel Marks delivers highly personalized portfolio management, wealth planning and access to lending strategies to individuals and families. Clients appreciate Daniel's attention to detail and familiarity with complex option and hedging strategies.

In addition, Daniel works with entrepreneurs and private business owners. Through his association with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management , he helps clients grow their businesses, manage corporate cash flow, set up employee benefit plans and prepare for the sale or transfer of their company. Through comprehensive planning and sophisticated investment strategies, he helps founders preserve their newly acquired wealth.

Daniel began his career at Morgan Stanley and later joined Smith Barney. He moved with his team to UBS in 2009. Daniel earned a B.S. degree in business from the Entrepreneur Program at the University of Southern California. He and his wife, Falan, have two children, Francesca and Cody.


2023 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2023). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on time period from 6/30/21 - 6/30/22
Securities Agent: MT, AZ, PA, AL, WA, NE, MI, VA, OR, NY, MD, FL, NJ, UT, TX, MA, CO, CA, OH, ND, KY, DE, MN, ID, DC, WY, TN, SC, NV, NC, IL, IA, CT; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1836599
CA Insurance License #: 0C89416

About Robert Richardson

Prior to joining the Ferguson Marks Group at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management ,
Robert Richardson worked as a director of marketing for an auto finance company. He attended
California State University- Long Beach and earned a B.S. degree in finance.
Robert is a Southern California native and currently resides in Huntington Beach with his wife,
Jennifer, and two children. He enjoys running, playing baseball and traveling.
Securities Agent: VA, ND, MA, TN, PA, MN, SC, NY, NJ, NE, IL, DC, AZ, WY, UT, TX, MT, CA, WI, OH, MI, KY, FL, DE, CO, AR, AL, WA, OR, NV, CT, NC, MD, ID, IA; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative

About Valerie Morris

Valerie Morris has worked with the Ferguson Marks Group since 2005. Prior to joining Morgan
Stanley, she worked at UBS and RBC in a similar role and with Roth Capital in compliance.
Valerie is a Southern California native and currently resides in Huntington Beach with her
husband Jeff and daughter, Chloe. She enjoys running, yoga, spending time with her family and
watching her daughter’s surfing competitions.

About Susan Yang

Susan joined the Ferguson Marks Group in 2021 as a Wealth Management Associate in the Newport Beach office. Prior to Ferguson Marks Group, she was an integral member of a team managing assets in excess of $10 billion and served as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) designation. She is a Dallas native and resides in Irvine with her husband, Caleb. In her spare time, she enjoys going to the theater and rooting for her favorite NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys.
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Portfolio Insights

Private Wealth Management Podcast

Bringing you engaging stories and key insights surrounding the complexities associated with significant wealth, including:
  • Intergenerational Planning
  • Philanthropic Giving
  • Non-Traditional Assets
  • Managing Family Wealth
LISTEN | Passion Assets: Investing in Art
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LISTEN | Passion Assets: Investing in Art

When a passion for collecting evolves into something of considerable value, new issues are raised. Hear what the professionals have to say about the best practices and pitfalls of collecting art and collectibles.

Managing Significant Wealth

  • Investment Management
  • Wealth Transfer & Philanthropy
  • Cash Management & Lending
  • Family Governance & Wealth Education
  • Lifestyle Advisory
  • Business Services
Funding Climate Action: Pathways for Philanthropy
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Funding Climate Action: Pathways for Philanthropy

Share a new report in collaboration with the Aspen Institute. The report aims to help climate-oriented philanthropists explore critical issues and align their wealth management strategies with their environmental impact ambitions.

Insights and Outcomes

Thought Leadership for our ultra high net worth clients, which contains thought-provoking articles, authored by leading experts from Morgan Stanley Family Office Resources.
Larry Fitzgerald Jr.'s Playbook on Leadership and Values
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Larry Fitzgerald Jr.'s Playbook on Leadership and Values

The renowned NFL wide receiver shares insights on aligning your investments with your values.
We look forward to discussing your needs and goals, and the exceptional resources we can place at your disposal.
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Asset Allocation does not assure a profit or protect against loss in declining financial markets.

The securities/instruments, investments and investment strategies discussed on this website may not be suitable for all investors. The appropriateness of a particular investment or investment strategy will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives. The views and opinions expressed on this website may not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”). This website and its associated content are intended for U.S. residents only.

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