Advice Matters

The Nexus Group at Morgan Stanley* is dedicated to one principal: to provide comprehensive portfolio and wealth management tailored to the specific needs of our high net worth clients. Our team can offer our clients unique opportunities for managing market volatility and boosting portfolio performance.

We work with high-net-worth individuals and families, business owners and executives. We take pride that many of our clients are multi-generational families or were referred to us by existing client relationships.

We are a multi-talented and nationwide team, operating out of three regional offices:

Central Region: Bimal Sheth & Sanjeev Arora
401 Main Street Suite 1000
Peoria, IL 61602
Tel: 309.671.2823
309.671.4659

West Region: Aziz Ihani
28202 Cabot Rd. Suite 500
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Tel: 949.365.5346
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Our Process

Our wealth management process begins with you, your investment objectives and your financial goals. Holistic in its approach, it may encompass all the elements of your financial life - your investments and your cash management needs - making sure they align with your goals and wealth management plan.
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    1. Identify
    Before we make specific recommendations, we take the time to understand who you are as a person, as well as an investor, and what you really hope to achieve for yourself and your family. That means an in-depth discussion of your current finances, future objectives, attitude toward risk and other circumstances that will assist us in developing a customized plan.
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    2. Discover
    Next, we’ll review your current and future financial situation, determine the likelihood of reaching your goals and address any potential shortfalls or the impact of unexpected life events. We analyze your input and seek to develop a wealth management plan that contains specific recommendations designed to meet the objectives you established.
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    3. Analyze & Implement
    With a clear understanding of your needs and goals, we utilize a variety of planning and risk analysis tools to identify appropriate strategies for your situation. We also leverage the intellectual capital of Morgan Stanley’s global resources. We present these recommendations to you and upon your approval will begin implementation.
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    4. Plan & Monitor
    We’ll oversee your performance towards your goals through ongoing calls and meetings. We may recommend adjustments over time, due to changing market conditions or changes in your circumstances, to help keep you on track towards achieving your goals.

Our Clients

The Nexus Group works with a broad range of clientele. However, many of our clients find themselves and their families across more than one of the below categories. By leveraging the power of our team and a global firm to deliver these resources, we give our clients as much time as possible to focus on their lives where it matters most.
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    Physicians
    Many physicians manage their own practice, supervise employees, and oversee payroll. This creates a need to address a variety of issues from employee benefits to retirement plans. Our focus is to help guide you and make the right financial decisions.
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    Business Owners
    During your years of building and managing your business, you may not have focused on the significant personal wealth you were creating or the financial opportunities and risks that you might encounter after moving on to enjoy your success. We can guide you through a process designed to integrate your institutional and corporate objectives with your personal goals.
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    Professionals
    As a professional, such as an Engineer or Pharmacist, you have devoted your career to building your enterprise. Now it is time to plan for what comes next: enjoying the substantial rewards, spending more time with your family and pursuing new challenges.
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    Multi-Generational Families
    General wealth is passed down within a family, from one generation to the next. With successful and proper planning, the next generation of children can then pass down wealth to their own children, and so on.
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Suite of Service

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Legacy Planning
You can’t take it with you, but through a trust, you can define how you want your life’s work and wealth to continue to benefit the people and causes you love and care for.
The Legacies That Last
Portfolio Management
After discussing your portfolio asset allocation strategy, we will recommend specific investments in each asset class and show you how those investments will work in your portfolio to help you reach your stated goals. We will work together to model potential changes after understanding how your portfolio might perform based on potential and current events.
Portfolio Insight
Tax Management
Even investors who spend a lot of time thinking about how to maximize their portfolios for performance may lack a strategy when it comes to taxes on those returns. Applying an active tax-management strategy for your investments may be one way to help reduce your overall tax burden.
Consider These Tax Moves
Estate Planning
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 help enhance results.
Why You May Need A Trust
Lending
As investors seek to diversify their portfolio exposures beyond traditional assets, alternative lending may offer attractive absolute and risk-adjusted return characteristics. An allocation to alternative lending may provide investors with exposure to a secular shift in the way consumers and small businesses access capital.
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Investor Education

Digital technology is centered on how people communicate, consume, transact and travel. Our comprehensive suite of digital tools is designed to help enhance every aspect of your financial life. We have also included resources meant to transform complex financial analysis and research.
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    Wealth Management Portfolio Insight
    Timely market commentary, thought leadership and portfolio ideas to help guide your investment decisions.
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    Morgan Stanley Online
    Your investments and everyday finances are always just a few clicks away with Morgan Stanley Online (MSO) and the Morgan Stanley Mobile App.
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    Total Wealth View
    Total Wealth View gives you ability to view all of your assets and liabilities together, whether held at Morgan Stanley or elsewhere. This can further enable us to advise and manage, taking your entire financial picture into account.
    Learn More About TWV
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    E-Authorization
    eAuthorization allows clients to electronically authorize domestic and international, one-time/recurring transactions through Morgan Stanley Online and the Morgan Stanley Mobile App.
    Learn More About eAuthorization
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    Life View
    The first step in creating a personalized financial plan is to develop a thorough understanding of all your important financial goals, and the resources available to meet those goals.
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    Digital Vault
    The Digital Vault on Morgan Stanley Online and the Mobile App allows for easy sharing and convenient access to life’s most important documents from wills and deeds to financial statements and tax fillings. Easily manage your encrypted financial records all in one place.
    Learn More About Digital Vault

Location

211 Fulton St
Ste 500A
Peoria, IL 61602
US
Direct:
(309) 671-2823(309) 671-2823
Toll-Free:
(800) 527-3579(800) 527-3579

Meet The Nexus Group

About Bimal A Sheth

Bimal has built up a successful wealth management and advisory practice by combining his dual passions – providing unparalleled client service and performing sophisticated technical analysis. He is dedicated to creating long-lasting, family-like personalized relationships with clients. With trust as the foundation, he is passionate about studying the market trends and is committed to helping and guiding people in their journeys.
 
With over two decades of financial experience, Bimal is well-versed in closely monitoring key technical indicators to gauge investor sentiment and market momentum.  He then utilizes this knowledge to deploy investment strategies within our client’s portfolios, creating potential investment opportunities or ways to reduce or manage risk.
 
A former gold-medalist in Electronics Engineering from Gujarat University in India and possessing a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Bradley University, Bimal began his career as a software engineer for Caterpillar, Inc. He subsequently left engineering to pursue his strong interest for financial markets and investing. His engineering background and analytical mindset allowed him to thrive upon arriving at Morgan Stanley in 2001.   
 
Outside of the office, Bimal enjoys spending quality time with his two daughters and wife as well as singing karaoke. Bimal continues to make his mind stronger by reading and listening to spiritual masters to build the soul.



Technical analysis is the study of past price and volume trends of a security in an attempt to predict the security's future price and volume trends. Its limitations include but are not limited to: the lack of fundamental analysis of a security's financial condition, lack of analysis of macro economic trend forecasts, the bias of the technician's view and the possibility that past participants were not entirely rational in their past purchases or sales of the security being analyzed. Investors using technical analysis should consider these limitations prior to making an investment decision.
Securities Agent: NH, AL, NY, NJ, MD, TX, TN, OR, MI, CT, PA, OH, MA, KS, NC, KY, IN, IA, CO, GA, WI, CA, WA, OK, NV, IL, FL, DC, VA, MO, AZ; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1288123

About Sanjeev Arora

Sanjeev is a Senior Portfolio Management Director actively managing money for his clients for over 21 years at Morgan Stanley.  He brings over 37 years of experience in Banking and Finance to his role as a wealth management professional. Being a seasoned advisor , Sanjeev is dedicated to helping and guiding people in need, and building personalized long lasting relationships.
 
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Sanjeev worked in banking in New York for 3 years, as a Quantitative Analyst in Global Equities at TIAA-CREF for 4 years and as a Vice President in Equity Research at a Large Money Management Firm on Wall Street for 8 years. Sanjeev made a move from Institutional Money management to Individual Money Management to get a chance to work with families and build personalized relationships. Sanjeev’s background in Equity Research has provided him with substantial knowledge about economics, Industries and companies which he utilizes when evaluating investments for his clients’ portfolios.

His approach to helping others involves personalized care, holistic Financial Management and Proprietary and Customized Discretionary portfolio solutions. Sanjeev is also Designated as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) which enables him to analyze each client’s specific financial needs and requirements and then to devise appropriate strategies to help them achieve their goals. Sanjeev attended Baruch College – The City University of New York where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and International Business.
 
Sanjeev believes that balance is vital to a happy life. Outside of the office, he looks to give back to the community when he can. Sanjeev has been involved in the non-profit world and is an active Donor for many Charity Events. He also loves spending time with his family, traveling, playing golf, listening to music and actively reading and practicing towards his Spiritual Pursuits.


The individuals mentioned as the Portfolio Management Team are Financial Advisors with Morgan Stanley participating in the Morgan Stanley Portfolio Management program. The Portfolio Management program is an investment advisory program in which the client’s Financial Advisor invests the client’s assets on a discretionary basis in a range of securities. The Portfolio Management program is described in the applicable Morgan Stanley ADV Part 2, available at www.morganstanley.com/ADV or from your Financial Advisor.
Securities Agent: OR, AL, PA, NH, MD, KY, KS, WA, OH, WI, TX, IA, NV, MI, AZ, NY, IN, GA, DC, VA, CO, CA, FL, CT, MA, IL, OK, NJ, TN, NC, MO; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1288031

About Aziz A Ihani

Aziz possesses a strong background in financial analysis and risk management.  He spent seven years at Deloitte & Touche in their Financial Services industry practice in Los Angeles at senior-level positions.  Prior to that, he worked in the Global Risk Management Group at Citibank in Los Angeles and New York.

Aziz has a particular interest in international affairs and is a member of the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles.  He has extensive knowledge of international markets and economies and how they interrelate in today’s increased globalization.  He reviews client portfolio risks at a macro level and recommends risk mitigation strategies.

In relation to overall wealth management, Aziz is firmly committed to long-term relationships and strives to deliver exceptional, in-depth client service.  He seeks to devise customized investment strategies for high-net worth clients with an eye toward prudent risk management and asset preservation.

Aziz earned a Master’s of Business Administration in Finance at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USC).
Securities Agent: AZ, KS, IL, CA, VA, MA, CO, IN, NJ, DC, CT, WA, TX, OK, NY, AL, WI, PA, OH, NC, KY, MI, GA, FL, MO, MD, NV, TN, DE; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1275582
CA Insurance License #: 0E41927
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
Are You Prepared for Tax Day?
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Are You Prepared for Tax Day?

The countdown to Tax Day has begun. Here are some strategies to consider as the deadline approaches.

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.
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