Our Story and Services

Navigating the complexities of wealth management can pose significant challenges and raise numerous unanswered questions. Crafting a disciplined investment strategy capable of adapting to evolving conditions often demands the experience of seasoned professionals. Craig and Kimberly serve as guides through the intricate financial landscape, distilling the noise to offer clients invaluable insight and thoughtful counsel.

Our aim is to grow and preserve wealth by actively engaging with clients. We collaborate to design, implement, monitor, and continually refine an investment strategy tailored to each client's unique circumstances, with a keen emphasis on tax efficiency.

As clients encounter changes in their financial landscape—be it the sale of a business, wealth preservation, retirement, estate planning, or other transitions—we pivot their financial strategy accordingly. Regardless of the stage of life you find yourself in—whether excelling in your career, navigating life changes, relishing retirement, or somewhere in between—we stand ready to identify and overcome challenges together.
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Financial planning is a fluid process that changes with your stage of life, we expect your goals will vary over the course of our relationship.

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    Step 1. Collect Information

    We collect financial statements and have a thorough discussion to gather information relating to your financial resources, assets, and liabilities, your short and long-term goals, and your thoughts about retirement.

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    Step 2. Create Goals-Based Plan

    We create a plan for you that outlines your goals, reviews assets and liabilities, current and future income, and lists business interests and real estate. The plan will show you whether you are on track to achieve your goals as well as ways to potentially maximize your wealth.

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    Step 3. Present Detailed Analysis

    Our team reviews the detailed plan with you and will offer guidance to maintain or adjust your current financial situation, including specific investment recommendations that are customized to your financial goals.

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    Step 4. Implement Recommendations & Plan Maintain

    Upon reviewing the analysis with you and making a collaborative decision, we implement investment recommendations that are tailored to your needs and risk tolerance. We meet with our clients on a regular basis to monitor and update your plan as your situation evolves over time.

We will work closely together to understand your needs while maintaining the focus and discipline to guide your portfolio through market cycles.

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    Step 1: Establish Financial Objectives

    We will work closely together to understand your needs while maintaining the focus and discipline to guide your portfolio through market cycles.

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    Step 2: Design an Investment Strategy

    We design an investment strategy built to support the financial objectives determined that appropriately diversifies across asset classes and considers current market conditions.

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    Step 3: Evaluate and Select Investments

    Once an overall investment strategy is designed, we construct and implement a customized portfolio for each asset class in the strategy that is intended to strike an overall balance of risk vs. return.

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    Step 4: Ongoing Review Process

    We perform ongoing assessment of your investment performance and make periodic portfolio adjustments as appropriate. We will adapt the strategy to changes in your personal and professional life.

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    Budgeting and Spending

    Put your money to work with our Financial Management Tools. You can track spending habits, categorize expenses. and create budgets across your Morgan Stanley and external financial accounts. Our Spending and Budgeting Tool makes it easy for you and your Financial Advisor to see your complete financial picture.

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    Liquidity Access Line

    Liquidity Access Line (LAL) is a securities based loan that offers a range of borrowing options while pledging eligible securities from the client's brokerage account at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC as collateral.

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    Home Loans / Mortgage

    Whether you're buying or refinancing a home, purchasing a vacation or investment property, or helping a family member realize their homeownership goals, let us help you find the best financing solution to meet your needs.

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The extensive collection of digital tools from Morgan Stanley has been thoughtfully created to support the improvement of every facet of your investment portfolio. Spend some time learning about some of the various resources we provide to our clients in the area of modern wealth management.

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    Morgan Stanley Online

    Whether it's your daily budget or your assets, Morgan Stanley Online (MSO) and the Morgan Stanley mobile app are always your fingertips away! Use this helpful 24/7 resource to instantly access your accounts and make investments.

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    Total Wealth View

    With Total Wealth View, finish your financial profile. You will get the advantages of easier connectivity and more comprehensive and knowledgeable financial planning by combining the data from your external accounts.

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    MS Reserved

    Rewarding clients with more than $1 million in invested assets and liabilities at the firm is Reserved Living & Giving, a tiered, complimentary loyalty program. More than just typical wealth management services, the program aims to improve your lifestyle and your connection with the firm.

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    Thoughts On The Market

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Location

400 Capitol Mall
Suite 1900
Sacramento, CA 95814
US
Direct:
(916) 567-2072(916) 567-2072

Meet The McLoughlin Friedman Group

About Craig S McLoughlin

Craig McLoughlin has been a Financial Advisor for over 30 years working with individuals, small business owners, corporations and retirement plans. With Craig's wisdom and meticulous nature his area of expertise is working with multigenerational families.

Craig is a graduate of Sacramento State University with a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management and a minor in Business Administration. Before beginning his work as a Financial Advisor, Craig worked as an engineer for Teichert Inc. in Sacramento.

Living in East Sacramento in a home he rebuilt with his spouse, Ruth, Craig takes pleasure in spending time outside being active and spending time with Ruth and their two children, Logan and Lily.
Securities Agent: AL, MA, ID, AR, FL, VA, OR, DC, UT, CO, WA, TX, NC, AZ, NV, MD, SC, NY, CA, ND, MT, HI, TN; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1282812

About Kimberly Friedman

Financial advisor Kimberly Friedman, CFP®, has more than ten years of expertise in the financial services sector. She develops and implements tailored, all-inclusive investment plans with her clients in mind, making sure they meet both their present and future financial goals.

At California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Kimberly obtained a degree in Psychology. She is a member of the fraternity Chi Omega. In addition to holding her Series 7 and Series 66 registrations, Kimberly is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and maintains her NMLS and California insurance licenses.

Kimberly likes to spend her free time gardening or going on walks outside while she listens to audiobooks or podcasts.
Securities Agent: WY, NC, CA, NY, MD, HI, VA, FL, WA, GA, AL, UT, CO, TX, SC, NV, MA, OR, ID, DC, AZ, AR, MT; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1733606
CA Insurance License #: 4089127

About Holly Walker

Holly Walker is a Registered Client Service Associate at Morgan Stanley. She has served in this role since 2016 and became registered in 2022 after passing the Series 7, Series 66, and SIE exams. Holly utilizes the full and modernized capabilities of Morgan Stanley to engage with clients each and every day and provides an elevated standard of care to enhance the client experience.

Holly grew up in Paradise California before moving to Chico where she met and married her husband Mark in 1985, they have one grown daughter who lives close by. When Holly is not at the office helping clients, she enjoys traveling in her motorhome to Coastal Beaches and National Parks for hiking and biking or to a local casino for a good tribute band.

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 Sue Callantine

Sue Callantine is a Private Banker serving Morgan Stanley Wealth Management offices in California.

Private Bankers partner with 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.

Sue began her career in financial services in 1997, and joined Morgan Stanley in 2019 as a Private Banker. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Private Banker at Bank of the West. She also served as a Private Banker at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and Bank of America.

Sue is a graduate of the University of Alaska Anchorage, where she received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management. She lives in Orangevale, California with her husband. Outside of the office, Sue enjoys gardening, reading and traveling. She also serves on the Hope Gala Board of Ambassadors for the American Cancer Society.
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Working with you to understand your life goals and develop a personalized wealth strategy. Today and for the years to come.
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  • Retirement income strategies
  • Retirement plan participants
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Creating customized financial strategies for the challenges that today’s families face.
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