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Welcome to the Greenfield Team at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. We are a multi-generational team helping individuals, families, and family offices navigate complexity and make thoughtful, long-term decisions about their wealth.
Over the last 25 years, we have developed a consistent process for guiding families through their most important financial and personal goals. Our work spans investments, financial planning, and tax & estate advisory, tailored to the specific goals and values of each family.
Our group is grounded in the following core principles:
- Building lasting relationships based on trust and continuity
- Align portfolios, tax strategy, and estate planning with family goals and values
- Preserve and grow wealth with a long-term mindset
- Reduce complexity, taxes, and cost
Based in San Francisco and Denver, we are a national practice overseeing more than $6 billion of client assets. We strive to offer the personalized service of a boutique team, backed by institutional strength of a premier financial firm.
We welcome the opportunity to learn about you, your goals, and how we can help you achieve them.
About PWM
- 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
- 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
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Meet The Greenfield Team
About James B Greenfield
Jim joined Morgan Stanley in 2002 and distinguished himself early in his tenure at the firm as a Senior Investment Management Consultant and Senior Advisor, Private Wealth Management. These designations reflect Jim’s devotion to and experience in providing sophisticated wealth management solutions. Jim also earned his Certified Investment Management Analyst certification at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Jim has been recognized by Barron’s Magazine as a Top Advisor in the country.
Before joining Morgan Stanley, Jim was a managing director at Robertson Stephens (1999-2002) and Montgomery Securities (1993-1999) in San Francisco, where he provided financial planning for numerous entrepreneurs and company founders. Jim began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. in San Francisco, where he specialized in financial planning and tax consulting for wealthy individuals and families.
Jim received his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993 with an emphasis in finance and investments.
Jim and his wife, Lisel, live in Orinda, California, and have been married since 1989. They have four children: Michael, Christopher, Patrick and Lauren. For the past 15 years, Jim has been coaching youth basketball in his local community.
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2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 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, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). Data compiled by Barron's based on 12-month period concluding in Sept of the year prior to the issuance of the award.
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About Jon Greenfield
Jon joined the San Francisco office of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management* in 2004, after serving as director of investments for five years at Banc of America Securities in San Francisco. Immediately after joining the firm, he earned the prestigious designation of Senior Investment Management Consultant, acknowledging his dedication to providing the highest quality wealth management solutions to his clients. In 2011, Jon moved to Morgan Stanley’s Denver office.
Jon received his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999 with an emphasis in finance and investments. He began his career at Arthur Andersen in Denver, Colorado, where he provided various value-added services to emerging technology companies and service organizations.
Jon and his wife, Monica, live in Centennial, Colorado, with their three children: Matthew, Katie and Ryan. Jon is actively involved in his children’s education and extracurricular activities. He is also a volunteer board member and coach for his son’s adaptive baseball league, Miracle League of Denver, which provides an opportunity for young athletes with various developmental disabilities to play the sport.
*References to length of service at Morgan Stanley include years at Morgan Stanley and predecessor firms.
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About Barrett Richter
Barrett is firmly committed to long-term relationships with clients. Along with the rest of the team, he strives to deliver exceptional service and listens carefully to client goals, values, aspirations, and concerns. Understanding that significant wealth can cause significant complexity, the goal is to bring balance to clients’ financial lives with a high level of attention to every detail. Based on this input, Barrett then works attentively to help clients achieve what is most important to them.
Barrett works closely with Morgan Stanley’s Consulting Group, whose role includes detailed analysis and recommendation of third-party, firm-sponsored asset managers. Barrett partners with Consulting Group professionals to define an investment process that is catered to each client’s individual goals and objectives.
Barrett earned his B.A. degree from the University of California, Davis, in 1999.
Barrett and his wife, Tarika, live in the Inner Richmond district of San Francisco with their 8-year-old son Kane, 4-year-old daughter Lincoln, and baby girl Cleo. Barrett was drawn to San Francisco by the unique culture, active lifestyle, and world-class cuisine. When he’s not working with clients, Barrett enjoys skiing, coaching baseball, and travel.
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About Christopher Dietz
Chris received his BS in Accounting and an MBA in Finance from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder, during which time he also earned an M.S. in Telecommunications. He began his career with Arthur Andersen in Denver, Colorado where he provided auditing and financial consulting services to companies in the Telecommunications, Technology, Financial Services, and Real Estate industries.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Chris was on the executive team of a financial services company for eleven years. He was instrumental in growing the company’s annual revenues prior to a successful merger in 2011.
Chris and his wife, Kati, live in Littleton, Colorado with their two young children - Molly and Ben. Chris is actively involved as the Treasurer on the Executive Board of both his church and children’s school, All Souls Catholic School. He sits on the advisory council for the Wyoming Children’s Society, and is on the Board of the University of Colorado-Boulder Alumni Association. Chris is very proud of establishing a foundation for Craig Hospital and was honored by the Craig Hospital Board of Directors in 2007 at the 100 Year Gala. Chris also is part of the 1907 Ambassador Program at Craig. Chris enjoys golf, skiing, tennis, running, and hockey in his free time.
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About Michael Greenfield
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Michael worked as an associate on the investment team with Frontier Growth, a North Carolina-based private equity firm that invests in growth-stage software businesses. Previously, Michael was an investment banking analyst with BlackArch Partners, where he focused on executing middle-market M&A transactions in the consumer and business services sectors.
Michael earned his B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University, graduating with cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors.
A native to the Bay Area, Michael enjoys following his favorite San Francisco sports teams, golfing, and trying new restaurants. Michael lives with his wife Madi in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.
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About Nate McPhail
Nate received his Doctor of Jurisprudence and an LL.M. in Taxation, with honors, from Golden Gate University School of Law, and is a member of the CA Bar Association. He received his bachelor's degree, with a dual major in Finance/Insurance and International Business from Northeastern University, where he was a four-year member of the men's varsity crew. Nate currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and two children.
About Jason Lammert
Prior to working full-time at Morgan Stanley, Jason was CEO at Acalynics LLC, an academic consulting company which specialized in helping students achieve their academic goals. He holds both the Series 7 and 66 licenses. Jason graduated from Pomona College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
In his free time, he continues his lifelong passion of sports. A collegiate athlete in swimming, he can often be seen hanging out at the pool.
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About Chloe Hansen Wood
Chloe's primary responsibility is to identify strategies to serve current and prospective clients. She assists in the management and maximization of the client experience, conducts ongoing portfolio due diligence, and prepares customized performance reports and portfolio analysis. She is a primary contact for clients, and helps facilitate overall collaboration between the advisors and support staff with whom she works.
Chloe was born and raised in Colorado. She enjoys snowboarding in the winter, wake surfing in the summer, and reading fantasy novels year-around. She has been an international volunteer working on behalf of underprivileged children in both Africa and Central America.
About Samantha Harvey
Samantha has lived in Colorado for 25 years and currently resides in Denver. She fills her free time with outdoor activities in the summer and catches up on reading in the winter.
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