About Us

Whether it’s a career move, a new marriage or even retirement, change in our lives is inevitable. Sometimes, it may be difficult to know how to handle these changes, or simply know where or how to start on your quest for success.
 
At the Midtown New York Group at Morgan Stanley, the quality of personalized client service is at the core of everything we do. Our team is comprised of experienced financial professionals with decades of combined experience in the industry. Pairing our services and capabilities with Morgan Stanley's wealth management platforms allows us to help clients navigate and manage an ever-changing financial landscape. When working together, our goal is to thoroughly understand your financial needs and ultimately align our resources to help you meet and exceed them. What's important to you is important to us, and we are eager to work alongside you and your family to help you accomplish all it is that you work so hard for.
 
Just as the markets are constantly changing, your financial needs and wants are bound to change too. By establishing effective communication and transparency at the beginning of our relationship, we make it a point to ensure that we are always on the same page. An integral part of our working relationship is for us to thoroughly understand your unique financial position, long and short-term goals, as well as your appetite for risk. This serves as a working model for us to build and constantly monitor an appropriate asset allocation strategy that is tailored specifically to you for both today and the future.
 
Our diverse wealth management team stands out due to our shared entrepreneurial spirit.  We question the status quo and help you think outside the box to pursue your dreams and aspirations, embrace challenges, and analyze new opportunities. We also serve as a sounding board for investment ideas and work with you to develop and execute a strategy that is precisely your own.

Some of the many services we offer our valued clients include Professional Portfolio Management, Wealth Management, Retirement Planning, and Financial Planning. To learn more about how we can make a difference, please reach out. We are extremely grateful to serve such an accomplished and diverse group of people not just in New York, but in states and cities throughout the country. We are very excited to get started with you!
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How We Work With You

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    1. Discovery Process
    Learning about you and your family; your assets and liabilities, as well as your risk exposure is the first step in our discovery process. Investing the time to get to know each other enables us to formulate strategies and customize the relationship to you and your family's specific needs.
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    2. Formulation of Tax, Trust and Estate Strategy
    Working with your tax and legal advisors, we help analyze your income and estate tax circumstances. By doing this, we help identify and tailor planning techniques that address your goals and objectives.
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    3. Creation of Customized Strategic Asset Allocation
    When working together, we assess how your current asset allocation reflects risk, potential opportunities, and taxation across multiple entities. This approach allows us to integrate your investing and estate plans into our collaborative financial strategy, designed specifically towards you and your unique financial situations.
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    4. Integration of Tactical Asset Allocation
    Short-term adjustments seek to capitalize on market distortions. Before making the adjustments, we analyze the impact of taxes and trading costs on potential returns.
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    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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    6. Ongoing Assessment
    Establishing a strong form of communication is important in any relationship. As we work together, we conduct ongoing reviews and comprehensive reporting to ensure that your strategy adapts to changing financial and family needs.

What We Offer

At Morgan Stanley, we provide clients with easily digestible financial analysis from our market research experts. The links below provide further insight on the
markets and economic landscape as well as our comprehensive suite of digital tools are designed to help enhance every aspect of your financial life.
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    MS at Work
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    Reserved Living & Giving
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Some of What we Offer

Working as part of an integrated advisory team, our team of Wealth Advisors can help you make well-informed personal wealth management decisions at every stage of your company's development. Our goal is to provide you with the information, insight and resources needed to help you reach your personal and professional goals. Equity programs vary widely, so it's important to understand the details and how it fits into your financial plan.

To learn more about how our team can be of service to you, your employees and your business, please schedule a call with us by using the "Contact Us" button at the top of the screen.
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    401(k) Benefits for Small Business Owners
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    401(k) Strategies
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    Retirement Solutions
    For your employees, retirement is more than a date in the future – it’s a milestone that takes time, hard work and the right tools to achieve. Our dedicated Financial Advisors offer Retirement Solutions to every business size, providing fiduciary oversight, employee education and engagement to help drive the best possible employee outcomes. We serve a full spectrum of plan types including: 401(k) and 403(b) Plans, Pension Plans, Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans and more.
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    2023 Tax Rates and Dates
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Your Equity Compensation Can Help You Reach Your Life’s Goals

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Working as part of an integrated advisory team, our team of Wealth Advisors can help you make well-informed personal wealth management decisions at every stage of your company's development. Equity programs vary widely, so it's important to understand the details and how it fits into your financial plan.

Our goal is to provide you with the information, insight and resources needed to help you reach your personal and professional goals. We are here to help you answer the key questions that arise at the intersection of your business strategy and your personal wealth management.

WORKPLACE FINANCIAL BENEFITS WITH MORGAN STANLEY AT WORK

Our mission is to help your company elevate your workplace financial benefits—helping you to attract and retain top talent. Our end-to-end solutions support your company and employees at any stage of growth through a powerful combination of modern technology, insightful guidance, and dedicated service.

    Equity Solutions

    Equity ownership is a powerful motivator. Streamline equity management through our leading-edge technology and provide global audit-ready reporting and insights, alongside customizable participant experiences to engage and educate your employees on how to make the most of their benefits. Our global solutions support private and public companies at any stage of growth.

    • Equity Administration and Financial Reporting
    • Liquidity Events
    • 409A Valuation Services and Cap Table Management

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    Retirement

    For your employees, retirement is more than a date in the future—it's a milestone that takes time, hard work, and the right tools. Through our consultative process, we strive to assist with the management of your fiduciary responsibilities and risk, simplify plan management, and help you improve retirement readiness for your employees.

    • Defined Contribution Consulting
    • Solutions-Oriented Plans
    • Fiduciary Investment Oversight

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    Deferred Compensation

    Access a range of Nonqualified Deferred Compensation plan services or pick the ones that best fit your needs. We provide recordkeeping and plan design, portfolio construction services, and plan education for your executive talent. We help you determine the appropriate plan design and inform a funding strategy through a needs-based assessment and consultative approach.

    Services include:

    • Recordkeeping and Plan Design
    • Portfolio Construction
    • Wealth Management Services
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    Executive Services

    Our dedicated team provides concierge-level support for your executives' equity compensation plans, from 10b5-1 trading plans to form filing related to Rule 144 transactions, to access to wealth management and tax-optimization strategies, so helping them navigate their complex financial needs with greater confidence and certainty:

    • Equity Compensation Services
    • Equity Award Analysis
    • Specialized Solutions
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    Saving and Giving

    Saving and Giving benefits can make a real difference in your employees' lives as they can support the things that matter most to them—like saving for education and repaying student loans. Show that you are committed to your employees' priorities with leading-edge solutions that help them chart a path toward financial well-being.

    • College Savings
    • Student Loan Repayment and Refinancing
    • Charitable Giving
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    Financial Wellness

    We offer Financial Wellness with every solution we provide. Through a powerful combination of education, digital tools and guidance, Financial Wellness is designed to address the unique needs of your employees and empower their financial journey at every stage. Give your employees the confidence to take charge of their finances.

    • Financial Education
    • Digital Tools
    • Financial Guidance

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Meet The Midtown New York Group

About Matthew W Hayford

Matthew W. Hayford is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Management Director and Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley. Matthew oversees the strategic and tactical implementation of private client and small business assets.

Since 1995, Matthew has been advising wealthy families across the U.S. on asset allocation and financial planning issues while being a Senior Vice President of Investments at UBS Financial Services, Inc. and a Principal at Bernstein Investment Research and Management. He focuses on portfolio management, multi-generational planning, complex trust and estate issues, retirement planning, small business financial solutions, including defined contribution and defined benefit plans.

Matthew holds a B.S. degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics with a major in small business management from the University of Vermont. He is registered with FINRA, SEC and CFTC with Series 3, 7, 31, 63 and 65 registrations. In 2016, he obtained the Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist designation. He lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife and 4 children.

Formerly, Matthew served on the Board of Directors (Treasurer) of the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy.
Securities Agent: VA, TN, LA, WI, NV, NC, DE, SC, NJ, ID, FL, MN, PR, NM, MS, MD, NY, WA, VT, NH, ME, IN, IL, DC, SD, IA, AZ, RI, OH, MO, MI, MA, UT, PA, OR, TX, GA, CA, CT, KY, CO; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
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About Tricia Goodwin

Tricia Goodwin, our Certified Financial Planner, TM, is an experienced advisor working in private wealth management since 1998. Tricia works with each of her High Net Worth clients to develop a personalized strategic and tactical plan. Building lifetime relationships, caring for each client’s needs, as well as meeting and understanding each client’s goals are foremost in her mind.

With years of experience, Tricia focuses on investment management, retirement and estate planning strategies, succession planning, and strategic philanthropy. Tricia has a pulse on the market and helps ensure that her clients are kept up to date with pertinent information and timely analysis. She excels at helping individuals and not-for-profits design and implement strategies to help meet their goals and monitor their risk.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Tricia was an Investment Associate at UBS Financial Services and worked in private wealth management at Goldman Sachs. Tricia holds a BS in Finance from Drexel University, and is a Registered Representative with FINRA and the SEC holding her Series 7, 66 and 63 registrations, along with a Life and Accident/Health Insurance license.

Currently, Tricia is on the Board of Directors of The Endless Mountain Music Festival.  She lives in Middle Village, NY with her husband and daughter and enjoys traveling with her family.
Securities Agent: TN, KY, WA, VA, MD, DC, CT, AZ, WI, PA, OR, LA, NM, IN, TX, SC, MT, MA, CO, CA, NJ, IL, GA, NH, MI, ME, FL, DE, NY, MN, ID, VT, UT, SD, RI, NC, MS, NV, PR, MO; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
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About Donald Kerr

Don Kerr is a Senior Portfolio Manager, Senior Vice President, and Financial Advisor, at Morgan Stanley.

Don has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, having worked at Irving Trust Company, Mellon Bank as well as Shearson Lehman American Express and Smith Barney. He advises high net worth individuals, families, as well as small businesses. Recognizing the importance of preservation of principle, he advises on financial planning, asset allocation, retirement planning as well as family planning.

Don is a graduate of Pace University, with a business administration degree, and holds his FINRA series 7, 63 and 65 licenses. Don lives in Larchmont, NY, with his wife Jean, and their dog Satchel. Their 3 children, Sarah, Abby and Peter live and work in the New York City area.
Securities Agent: MA, LA, GA, CO, TX, FL, WI, SC, PR, CT, NM, NJ, MS, ME, IL, DE, RI, CA, AZ, VA, SD, KY, WA, VT, OR, NV, UT, TN, MI, DC, PA, NC, MN, MD, ID, NY, NH, MO; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1339310

About William Cheung

William Cheung serves as a Financial Advisor & Financial Planning Specialist on the team. He works closely with a select group of executives, entrepreneurs and their teams helping them achieve all that is important to them. His wealth management service model includes a five meeting process that begins with an exploratory discovery meeting. William collaborates with his clients to help address their advanced planning needs, through customized Goals-Based Wealth Management solutions and helps them make smart decisions about their money, essentially becoming their personal Chief Financial Officer. By creating customized financial road maps, clients can then spend their time focusing on those very things that are most important to them.

Leveraging Morgan Stanley, William and his team have access to some of the best managers and resources on the street available today.
Securities Agent: NH, DE, VT, RI, MN, MA, CO, AZ, PA, NC, CT, UT, OH, NJ, MO, IA, GA, FL, DC, CA, TN, MS, KY, MI, IL, WI, WA, VA, OR, ME, TX, SC, NY, IN, SD, MD, LA, NV, PR, NM, ID; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1275687
CA Insurance License #: 0M92160

About Alexandra Yee

Alexandra Yee is a Registered Client Service Associate at Morgan Stanley. Since joining the firm in 2018, Alex has been providing The Midtown Group with administrative, operational and marketing support. Her primary responsibility is client interaction and client-related services.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Alex was an Associate Buyer at Christian Louboutin where she was responsible for the buying and account management for the East Coast and Canada.

Alex holds a degree in Business Management from Providence College. She is registered with FINRA and SEC with the Series 7 and 66 licenses. Currently, she lives in Long Island with her husband.

About John LaMacchia

John LaMacchia joined us at The Midtown New York Group at Morgan Stanley in July as a Client Service Associate. In this role, John's primary responsibility is to foresee the administrative duties for the team and our clients. In addition, John works to keep the team organized, streamline its operations, as well as provide general assistance to our clients' questions or concerns. He pays great attention to detail, has many bright ideas, and adds a fresh energy to the team. John is fully licensed for this position, holding both his Series 7 & Series 66 registrations.

John grew up in Glen Rock, NJ and recently graduated from Montclair State University, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Finance. In his spare time, John enjoys playing golf and hockey, as well as fishing, hiking and traveling.

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About Londyn Crowder-Maree

Londyn Crowder-Maree 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.

Londyn began her career in financial services in 2008, and joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 as an Associate Private Banker. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Regional Bank Private Banker at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. She also served as a Wealth Management Banker and an Internal Sales Specialist at Merrill Lynch.

Londyn is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she received Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Masters of Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. She lives in Valencia, CA with her daughter Jonah. Outside of the office, Londyn enjoys fashion, music as well as dedicating time to her church and philanthropic outreach programs.
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About Jesse Mazza

Jesse Mazza 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.

Jesse began his career in financial services in 2011 and joined Morgan Stanley in 2016 as an Associate Private Banker. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Private Client Banker at JP Morgan Chase.

Jesse is a graduate of the University of La Verne, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California with his wife and 2 children. Outside of the office, Jesse enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, traveling, and cooking.
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