Our Story and Services

The Rogers Tomblinson Group at Morgan Stanley is a seasoned team of financial professionals who over the years feel like family. Our practice is built on a foundation of mutual respect, transparency, and integrity, three essential elements of the relationships we have cultivated among ourselves and the clients we proudly serve.

As a multigenerational team serving multigenerational families, we understand the importance of family and leaving an enduring legacy. We provide holistic wealth management, but with a hands-on approach. We look forward to becoming your dedicated financial advisor and to help you achieve your goals. Your milestones become our milestones.

Our goal is to help you feel more confident about your financial future, so you can retire on your terms and do more for your family. We’re also deeply experienced in helping business owners grow their companies and successfully transition it to the next generation.

We’re backed by a global powerhouse that connects you to new potential opportunities and industry-leading resources, including financial planning, research, client friendly technology, and our leading cybersecurity platform. And we’re proud of our concierge service and the tailored strategies we have been providing our clients for more than three decades. We welcome the opportunity to deliver an exceptional level of excellence to you and your family.
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A financial plan that can help propel you forward.

The Rogers Tomblinson Group provides holistic wealth management for every stage of your life. We work closely with successful individuals, families and business owners to handcraft a financial plan that’s built upon what you’re trying to achieve. We take the time to understand
your immediate needs, specific challenges, and your long-term goals.

If eligible, we can connect you to private equity opportunities, alternative investments, and sophisticated lending strategies designed to help you grow wealth. Our goal is to help you allocate your assets properly, increase portfolio efficiency, and manage tax obligations. And by choosing us, you can leverage Morgan Stanley’s robust Cybersecurity platform that helps to safeguard your assets today and resources that can help you provide for future generations.
    Manage Your Wealth
    • Customized investment planning
    • Access to private investing opportunities
    • Tax-efficient asset allocation
    Manage Your Risk
    • Tax-management strategies
    • Health and life insurance solutions
    Elevate Your Banking
    • Simplify everyday cash management
    • Manage cash flow and budgets
    • Sophisticated strategies to purchase, renovate, or refinance a home or real estate investment
    Secure Your Retirement
    • Income planning and distribution
    • Social Security Analysis
    • Risk assessment tools
    Protect Your Assets
    • Robust Cybersecurity Platform
    • Risk Assessment Tools
    Earn Your Confidence
    • High-touch communication process
    • Jargon-free financial guidance

Wealth creation designed to leave a legacy generations.

The Rogers Tomblinson Group at Morgan Stanley may not be related to each other, but we are a tight-knit team that considers ourselves a family business. Collectively we have more than 100 years of experience in the financial services industry. And since our team spans several generations, we’re well positioned to understand your family’s goals and challenges.

Our mission is to craft a tailor-made plan that can help you to build generational wealth, protect your family and create the legacy you’ve always envisioned. We can help you do more for your loved one, including finding tax-efficient strategies to help put your kids through college, buy a first home or even start their own businesses. We’re committed to enhancing their financial literacy so they see how significant wealth can create unique opportunities, but also can raise complex challenges.
    Next Gen Education
    We provide your adult children and grandchildren with valuable lessons about money management, investing, entrepreneurship, estate planning and what it means to be the beneficiary of a trust.
    Generational Planning
    We can create a tax-efficient strategy that enables you to proactively save for your children’s, grandchildren’s or other relative’s education. And as our clients get older, we help with everything from retirement spending to long-term care. We can guide you through every stage of life, so you feel prepared for what’s ahead, and confident that the money you’ve designated goes where you intended tax-efficiently and without the typical hassles.
    Trust & Estate Planning Strategies
    We work collaboratively with your accountant and attorney to create a plan that fits your family. And for clients with highly complex estates, we can provide access to our Family Office Resources team.


    Disclosures:
    Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC does not accept appointments, nor will it act as a trustee but it will provide access to trust services through an appropriate third‐party corporate trustee.

    Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Clients should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for matters involving trust and estate planning and other legal matters.

    The term “Family Office Resources” is being used as a term of art and not to imply that Morgan Stanley and/or its employees are acting as a family office pursuant to Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
    Lifestyle Advisory Group ($10M in AUM)
    Planning for the future is important—and so is living for today. Select clients will get to experience an elite range of concierge services, including:
    • Buying, leasing, or sharing a jet
    • College and admissions counseling
    • Eldercare services
    • Experiences, Travel and Luxury Vacations
    • Tickets to Theater, Concerts and Sporting Events


    Disclosures:
    Lifestyle Advisory Services: Products and services are provided by third party service providers, not Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”). Morgan Stanley may not receive a referral fee or have any input concerning such products or services. There may be additional service providers for comparative purposes. Please perform a thorough due diligence and make your own independent decision.
    Family Office Resources ($25M in AUM)
    Significant wealth raises a whole new level of complex challenges and multigenerational issues. That’s why we’re able to provide clients with over $25M in assets under our care direct access to Morgan Stanley’s Family Office Resources.
    • 60 former CPAS and attorneys
    • Professionals in Generational Wealth Transfer
    • Manage tax obligations
    • Maximize philanthropic dollars


    The term “Family Office Resources” is being used as a term of art and not to imply that Morgan Stanley and/or its employees are acting as a family office pursuant to Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

    Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Individuals should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for matters involving trusts, estate planning, charitable giving, philanthropic planning or other legal matters.

It’s our business to help you grow, protect and transition your business.

It takes passion to start your own company or be a successful corporate executive. We’ll provide you with the strategies, resources and support you’ll need to grow your business from infancy to expansion to transition or monetization.

We provide comprehensive financial services for small business, corporation, executives, and non-profit organizations. And we are eager to help them grow, seek out potential new opportunities, borrow strategically and manage their tax obligations.

• Strategic Lending –We enable you to re-invest in your business by creating sophisticated lending solutions that are designed to take you to the next level.

• Retirement Savings Plans – We know how important retirement plans and tax benefits are for you and your employees. We can help structure a plan that meets your goals and offers the types of benefits that attract recruits and keep employees happy.

• Tax Management – We offer strategies to help manage your tax obligation and provide tax overlay tools that can give you a clearer picture of your challenges—and opportunities.

• Buying, transitioning or selling a business – We can help you avoid common pitfalls that often come with acquisition and expansion. And when the time comes for you to transition your business to a family member or selling it for a healthy profit, our experience can be invaluable.

• Concentrated stock option strategies – Having concentrated stock positions in your portfolio may lead to great wealth, but they could also lead to outsized losses. Our deep experience in this area can help to create a diversification strategy designed to help manage your tax consequences.


Diversification does not guarantee a profit or protect against loss in a declining financial market.

We’re a highly experienced and award-winning team —but our real superpower is that we care.

Some wealth management teams measure their success in terms of assets under management or Best of State accolades. But to the Rogers Tomblinson Group, what we take the most pride in is that when clients discover us, they stay with us. Here are five reasons why you should consider choosing us:
    1. We’re your gateway to potential opportunities.
    By choosing us, you gain access to the vast resources of Morgan Stanley. As one of the world’s largest and well-capitalized financial institutions, the robust and complementary strengths of our global wealth management, investment and institutional franchise allow us to provide comprehensive insight.
    2. We believe that it’s still possible to retire on your terms.
    We’re wealth managers, but we sometimes joke that we’re sleep specialists. We know how the headlines in the news can become extra scary as people approach retirement. Our goal is to build a solid plan that can help you find a level of comfort knowing you’re prepared for life’s many curve balls.
    3. Our business is built on referrals.
    There’s no better feeling in the world than to have clients recommend us to their friends and family. When you do right by people, good things happen.
    4. Over 100 years of collective experience.*
    Our team is highly experienced across a wide range of financial disciplines. We also recognize that every one of our clients has a different set of goals and challenges, so we give thought to your individual situation and will never deliver a cookie cutter solution.
    5. We care deeply about doing right by you and your family.
    We believe in straight talk, not financial jargon. Our communications are clear, and our response time is always set to ASAP. Above all, we believe in consistency. Some firms start strong, but their interest may fade over time as they pursue new clients. You can count on us to care about you and your family’s well-being for the long haul.

    *Please see individual bios for details about the members, their functional titles, and their individual years of experience.

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
    Learn more
    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

    Learn more

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Ste 301
Bowling Green, KY 42103
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Direct:
(270) 936-6638(270) 936-6638
Fax:
(270) 282-4789(270) 282-4789

Meet The Rogers Tomblinson Group

About Steve Rogers

Steve understands the importance of putting his clients first. With three decades of industry experience during major shifts in the market, Steve has developed the knowledge and tools to structure balanced portfolios that can help clients address their specific financial goals.

Steve started his career with Merrill Lynch in 1983. He then transitioned his business to JC Bradford, where he continued to work as a Financial Advisor while also serving as the Branch Manager. He ultimately became a partner in the firm and, for 12 years, was an active member of the Senior Advisory Council, a group of professionals charged with formulating the direction of the company. In 2000, JC Bradford was purchased by then PaineWebber, which ultimately became UBS Financial Services. Steve has been recognized as a Wells Fargo Advisor's Chairman's Council Premier Advisor, a designation reserved for the firm's top producers.

A 1978 Indiana University graduate, Steve believes in the value of continually learning. Steve completed the Securities Industry Institute program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed securities industry training at the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

Steve is committed to helping his community prosper and has previously served on the boards of the Salvation Army of South Central Kentucky and the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center Foundation. He is an avid golfer and currently holds nine individual state titles, including winner of the Kentucky Open and the Kentucky Senior Open. Steve also had the honor of playing in the 2009 US Senior Open and the 2010 British Senior Open.

Both Steve and his wife Elizabeth are life-long residents of Bowling Green, Kentucky, where they raised their son Steven and daughters Margaret and Madeline.
Securities Agent: AL, WV, MN, IA, VA, TN, RI, NH, MD, LA, DC, CO, OH, NC, CA, TX, NY, KY, AR, SC, NV, MO, IN, AZ, WA, KS, NJ, MT, MS, AK, PA, GA, MI, FL; BM/Supervisor; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 928864

About Ben Tomblinson IV

Ben is dedicated to helping clients achieve their financial goals by understanding their needs and offering quality investment advice with unparalleled service. Beginning his career with Morgan Stanley in 1999, Ben and his team have years of experience in financial advising. He is focused on helping clients plan their transition to retirement and develop life-cycle savings and investment strategies.

Ben began his career as a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley in Bowling Green, where he earned the title of Associate Vice President - Wealth Advisor. In 2006, he moved his financial practice to Wells Fargo Advisors, predecessor of Wachovia Securities. As part of the Rogers Tomblinson Wealth Management Group, he serves as Executive Director. Ben holds a bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University.

Ben earned the Certified Private Wealth Advisor designation after extensive studies and the successful completion of a comprehensive examination. The CPWA designation, delivered by the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA), is an advanced designation designed for financial advisors and consultants who work with high-net-worth clients on the life cycle of wealth.

Ben is a life-long resident of Bowling Green and has been married to his wife Heather for 20 years. They have three children: twin boys, Harris and Davis, and a daughter, Amy. Away from the office, Ben enjoys coaching his sons' sports teams and spending time with his family.
Securities Agent: CO, AZ, TN, NV, MS, MO, AR, VA, TX, MI, GA, RI, OH, KS, IA, WA, NC, AL, PA, KY, FL, CA, NY, MN, LA, WV, MD, DC, SC, AK, NH, MT, IN; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1909876
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Portfolio Insights

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Equity Compensation

Helping you make the most of your equity awards and better understand how it may fit into your your larger financial picture – today and tomorrow.

  • Vesting events
  • Option expirations
  • Restricted stock units
  • Tax implications

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
A Simple Six-Step Retirement Checkup
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A Simple Six-Step Retirement Checkup

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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
Rational Investing in an Age of Uncertainty
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Rational Investing in an Age of Uncertainty

When it comes to investing, even the most savvy of us fall prey to bias and emotional trades. So what triggers should you watch for?

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
529 Plans: A Powerful Tool to Save for Education
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529 Plans: A Powerful Tool to Save for Education

Though education costs continue to climb, starting to save and invest early can make a difference.

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.

Financial Wellness

Enhancing Financial Wellness enables your workforce to do their best work. Companies that invest in financial wellness have an opportunity to:
  • Reduce employee stress,
  • Improve retention and engagement, and
  • Set themselves apart by offering comprehensive financial wellness benefits.
The Business Case for a Financially Resilient Workforce
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The Business Case for a Financially Resilient Workforce

In the face of turbulent markets, the word “resilience” may be top of mind. Broadly speaking, resilience is the ability to “bounce back” when encountering life’s inevitable challenges.
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