Investing

Our investing and wealth management offerings encompass many aspects of your financial world from traditional and alternative investments to comprehensive wealth planning solutions to help meet your life's goals.
Want to Keep More of Your Investment Returns? Consider These Tax Moves
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Want to Keep More of Your Investment Returns? Consider These Tax Moves

Establishing a tax management strategy for your investments may help you keep more of your returns.
Why Having a Goal Is Key to Investing
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Why Having a Goal Is Key to Investing

With a clear goal in mind, investors can create a realistic plan for achieving their objectives within a certain time frame. Here’s how:
Tax-Smart Ways to Sell Securities
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Tax-Smart Ways to Sell Securities

Realizing profits seems like the best part of investing, but taxes can add up. Our new analytics tool can help investors tap their portfolios in tax-savvy ways.

Products and Services for Investing

Asset management

Helping clients define an investment strategy tailored to their goals, then guiding informed investment choices from among our expansive investment platform, including proprietary and third-party offerings across every market and asset class.

Impact Investing

Helping clients uncover investment opportunities in companies, organizations and funds focused on the goal of generating social and environmental change alongside a financial return.

Cash Management and Lending Solutions

Offering clients a comprehensive suite of cash management and lending solutions to integrate their day-to-day liquidity needs with all of their long term ambitions.

Financial planning

Regardless of what stage your life is in—moving ahead in your career, enjoying retirement or somewhere in between—we work with you to create a realistic, holistic strategy that integrates the various aspects of your financial life.

Traditional investments

Providing access to a diverse array of high-quality traditional investment options – including equities, fixed income, mutual funds, UITs, ETFs, separately managed accounts, annuities, closed-end funds and multi-asset programs.

Alternative Investments

Offering clients a diverse range of investment strategies that fall outside of the traditional, long-only purchase and sale of stocks and bonds such as funds of funds, private equity and managed futures.
We look forward to discussing your needs and goals, and the exceptional resources we can place at your disposal.
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Investing in the market entails the risk of principal loss as well as market volatility. The value of all types of investments may increase or decrease over varying time periods.

The securities/instruments, services, investments and investment strategies discussed in this material may not be appropriate for all investors. The appropriateness of a particular investment or investment strategy will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC recommends that investors independently evaluate particular investments and strategies, and encourages investors to seek the advice of a Financial Advisor or Private Wealth Advisor. This material does not provide individually tailored investment advice. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it.

Alternative Investments are speculative and include a high degree of risk. An investor could lose all or a substantial amount of his/her investment. Alternative investments are appropriate only for qualified, long-term investors who are willing to forgo liquidity and put capital at risk for an indefinite period of time.

Impact Investing: The returns on a portfolio consisting primarily of Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) aware investments may be lower or higher than a portfolio that is more diversified or where decisions are based solely on investment considerations. Because ESG criteria exclude some investments, investors may not be able to take advantage of the same opportunities or market trends as investors that do not use such criteria. Diversification does not guarantee a profit or protect against loss in a declining financial market.

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Asset Allocation does not assure a profit or protect against loss in declining financial markets.

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CRC 6295606 (3/2024)