Our Story and Services

As your Financial Advisors, we can help you define and strive to meet your goals by delivering a vast array of resources to you in the way that is most appropriate for how you invest and what you want to achieve. Working together we can help you to preserve and grow your wealth. You’ll have access to some of the world’s most seasoned and respected investment professionals, a premier trading and execution platform and a full spectrum of investment choices.
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Working With You

As your dedicated wealth management team, our role is to tailor a personalized financial strategy which fits your needs. In our experience working with clients, we have developed a step-by-step approach to service:

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    Step 1: Discovery Meeting

    During the discovery meeting, we will work together to establish your financial goals by reviewing your current financial situation and developing an appropriate risk tolerance that can help you achieve the financial outcome you envision for yourself.

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    Step 2: Financial Plan Presentation

    Financial plan presentations map out essential factors that play into your financial success, such as your employee and employer contributions, liquidity events, and insurance coverage. Examining relevant financial information provides a holistic asset allocation analysis for your accounts, helping ensure a comprehensive financial plan. In this step, we also incorporate tax, trust, and estate considerations to help structure your wealth effectively and that ensure that your legacy goals are fully integrated into your plan.

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    Step 3: Action Items / Next Steps

    After the financial plan presentation, we will follow up with you regarding our analysis and recommendations, which may include adjustments to your financial plan, investment allocation, company benefits, and insurance coverage.

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    Step 4: Implementation Meeting

    The implementation meeting focuses on creating prospective strategies tailored for your specific needs. Recommended changes could include logistics, tax impact, asset allocation adjustments, and saving/benefit modifications.

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    Step 5: Monitoring & Performance Tracking

    Finally, we will be constantly monitoring your assets and analyzing your performance tracking data seeking to ensure your financial expectations are being met and adjusted accordingly. We will keep a high degree of communication with you to make sure your concerns and requests are always addressed.

RESOURCES

Our team has compiled select resources exclusively offered by Morgan Stanley that are designed to provide a unique, elevated service when it comes to your wealth management needs. Below you will find a handful that are particularly relevant to the clients our team serves.

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    ART Resources Team

    Given our experience, Morgan Stanley's Art Resources Team (ART), plays a particularly important role in our service model. Created with the purpose of assisting clients in understanding the integration of art into their portfolio, the team boasts a full suite of both internal and external services and regularly publishes content surrounding art and wealth management.

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    LifeView - Intelligent Planning

    LifeView offers a suite of planning tools, including goal-specific analysis, that we use to create a realistic, holistic strategy that integrates the various aspects of your financial life.

    Fill out the questionnaire below and contact us to begin the process of developing a personalized strategy for your long-term goals.

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    Morgan Stanley's Reserved Living & Giving

    Clients with $1 million+ in assets and liabilities at Morgan Stanley are eligible to enroll in the Reserved Living & Giving program. As a Reserved member, clients will have access to exclusive partner offers and discounts, as well as thought leadership content on a variety of lifestyle and personal finance topics.

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    Family Office Resources (FOR)

    Family Office Resources (FOR) is structured to help clients define a guiding vision, translate that vision into effective strategies, and implement those strategies by calling on the tactical expertise of experienced experts. Accessed by Morgan Stanley advisors through UHNW Client Specialists, our capabilities span three complementary areas of focus: Governance & Legacy, Wealth Strategies, and Signature Access.

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    MS Gift & Donor Advised Funds (DAFS)

    Charitable giving is among the highest of human aspirations, woven into the fabric of organizations, countries, and societies around the world. MS GIFT provides a unique way to give to charity through the use of Donor advised funds or, DAFs. Donor advised funds are among the easiest and most tax-advantaged ways to give to charity for donors across the spectrum of wealth.

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    ESG & Sustainable Investing

    With the rise of sustainable investing, it is important to learn how your investments can make an impact, and how they may impact the market long-term.

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HER WAY INITIATIVE

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HER WAY PROGRAM HISTORY

In November 2017, Christina Paul, along with 13 other female financial advisors at Morgan Stanley's 522 5th Avenue office, created and hosted Morgan Stanley's first-ever HER Day. The goal of the event was to create an immersive experience to explore themes of health and wellness, personal and professional development, wealth, and philanthropy in a storytelling format, in sessions coined HER Talks. Featured speakers for the event included Gloria Steinem, a founder of Ms Magazine and the modern women's movement, Bobbi Brown, lifestyle and beauty entrepreneur, and Shelley O'Connor, Co-Head of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

The event reached over 1,000 women – 100 invitees in the room and others through a nationwide webcast. To build on the momentum of HER Day, HER Way was launched in 2018.

HER Way's mission is simple: ENGAGE, EMBRACE and EMPOWER women to live their best financial and personal lives. We do this by curating content and hosting regular events featuring dynamic speakers taking about the financial and personal issues that are important to women.

Want to learn more? E-mail minerva.flores@morganstanley.com to be added to our HER Way invite list for upcoming events.

AWARDS AND DESIGNATIONS

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    CFP® - Certified Financial Planner™

    Held by Christina Paul and Christina Hein, the Certified Financial Planner™ designation is awarded to candidates who have demonstrated knowledge in the areas of Education, Investment, Tax, Retirement, Estate and Insurance planning strategies CFP® professionals must accrue several years of experience related to delivering financial planning services to clients and pass a comprehensive exam before calling themselves a CFP® Professional and are held to strict ethical standards to ensure financial planning recommendations are in the best interest of their clients.

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    CIMA® - Certified Investment Management Analyst®

    Held by Christina Paul, Certified Investment Management Analyst® professionals are dedicated to elevating their practice through education, experience, examination and the highest standards of ethics. CIMA® professionals have the advanced investment management knowledge necessary to fully serve affluent clients, and they use that in-depth knowledge to analyze and select the investments that make the most sense for your circumstances.

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    Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams (2025)

    Awarded to Christopher Apgar, Brian Saltzman, and Greg Swenson (The Apgar Saltzman Group at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management).
    Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams
    Source: Forbes.com (Awarded Jan 2025) Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based for the period 3/31/23-3/31/24.

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    Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors (2020-2024)

    Awarded to Christina Paul.
    2020-2024 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors
    Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2020-2024). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based 12-month time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award.

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    Forbes Top Women Wealth Advisors (2020-2023)

    Awarded to Christina Paul.
    2020-2023 Forbes America's Top Women Wealth Advisors & Forbes Top Women Wealth Advisors Best-In- State (formerly referred to as Forbes Top Women Wealth Advisors, Forbes America's Top Women Wealth Advisors)
    Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2020-2023). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on 12-month time period concluding in Sept of year prior to the issuance of the award.

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    Working Mother Magazine's List of Top Wealth Advisor Moms (2019-2021)

    Awarded to Christina Paul.
    2019-2021 Working Mother Magazine & SHOOK Research's Top Wealth Advisor Moms
    Source: Workingmother.com (Awarded October 2019-2021). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based on 12-month period concluding in Mar of the year the award was given.

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    Morgan Stanley Master's Club (2014-2015, 2017-2023)

    Awarded to Christina Paul.
    Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Club members must meet a number of criteria including performance, conduct and compliance standards, revenue, length of experience and assets under supervision. Club membership is no guarantee of future performance.

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    Morgan Stanley President's Club (2016)

    Awarded to Christina Paul.
    Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Club members must meet a number of criteria including performance, conduct and compliance standards, revenue, length of experience and assets under supervision. Club membership is no guarantee of future performance.

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Meet The Summit Park Group

About Christopher Apgar

Christopher L. Apgar comes to Morgan Stanley having been on Wall Street since 1999. As an Executive Director he focuses on the particular needs of high net-worth individuals, trusts, foundations and nonprofit organizations, including retirement planning, wealth transfer, estate planning strategies and writing investment policies. Enthusiastic about the visual arts, Christopher also dedicates a significant portion of his practice to the distinctive considerations of dealers, artists, galleries and others in the art community.

Currently, Chris is the honorary co-chair of the Contemporary Arts Council at MoMA, and vice chair of The Camargo Foundation in the South of France, he served as the treasurer of Artists Space, treasurer of Judd Foundation, co-chair of the Contemporary Arts Council of MoMA, ex-officio trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and President of The Brooklyn Rail, a magazine of critical perspectives on arts, politics and culture.

Christopher graduated with honors from Rutgers university, and continued his education studying finance at the New York Finance Institute.

He divides his time between residences in Park City, Utah and Manhattan, NY
Securities Agent: CA, SC, CO, VT, UT, OH, NY, NJ, FL, WY, NM, MN, TX, RI, ME, GA, SD, OR, DE, NH, VI, PA, NE, MT, MA, AZ, AL, WA, VA, NC, MI, KY, IL, MD, LA, KS, CT, DC; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1638809

About Christina Paul

After graduating from the University of Albany with a double-major in Mathematics and Economics as well as receiving her Masters in Economics from Fordham University, Christina Paul began her career in the financial services industry in 1993. She started her career at Paine Webber, which was later acquired by UBS, moved to Morgan Stanley in 2009 where she continues her career as an Executive Director Financial Advisor. In addition to her 25 years of industry experience, Christina Paul holds both her Certified Financial Planner (CFP ®) and Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA ®) designations. As a Financial Advisor, Christina Paul assists high net worth clients with wide array of services. With a financial planning as the foundation, Christina is able to provide her clients with the effective strategies seeking to accomplish their financial goals. She executes these strategies through an effective use of investment management, life and health insurance, tax planning, and estate planning strategies. Christina lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children. In her free time, she remains constantly active between networking events, physical activity, and travel. She is part of the Steering Committee for the HERWay group at Morgan Stanly where she hosts events focused on educating and empowering women in their financial lives. In addition, she has a passion for rock climbing and hiking, and is constantly exploring new places.
Securities Agent: UT, CO, OH, NY, NH, MN, VT, VA, MO, ME, LA, NM, OR, KS, HI, WY, WA, TX, SC, PA, MA, AZ, IL, DC, CA, AL, NC, MT, MI, DE, CT, VI, MD, KY, GA, NE, SD, RI, NJ, FL; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1270237
CA Insurance License #: 0H53810

About Brian Saltzman

As a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley, Brian provides clients with customized and sophisticated advice and solutions designed to help preserve and grow their wealth.

A graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Brian also holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. After receiving his master’s degree, Brian joined American Express, where he held a variety of sales strategy and sales leadership positions. He went on to launch and lead the marketing effort for FlexMind.com, and then served nearly seven years as a sales performance and relationship management consultant at Huthwaite, advising the sales leadership of Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2016, Brian served in similar roles at Neuberger Berman and Bernstein Global Wealth Management.

Brian is a Trustee and past President of the Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey, a Trustee of Parents Who Rock, as well as a Trustee of Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled. He and his wife live with their four children in Montclair, New Jersey.
Securities Agent: CO, NJ, TX, NH, DC, CA, VA, AZ, AL, OH, SC, RI, PA, NC, MN, MI, NY, MD, VT, UT, MA, IL, GA, NM, ME, LA, FL, CT, SD, OR, VI, NE, KY, WY, DE, WA, MT, KS; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 1576038

About Greg Swenson

Greg is a Private Wealth Advisor and partner of The Apgar Saltzman Group, focused primarily on strategic business development and investment management. Greg earned his degree in Political Science at Boston College, where he was President and Captain of the Men's Lacrosse Team. Greg currently resides in Manhattan.
Securities Agent: SC, CT, OR, OH, KY, CO, WA, VA, TX, PA, NH, UT, RI, AZ, NC, MI, FL, MN, LA, NJ, KS, GA, DE, WY, MT, AL, SD, NM, MA, CA, NY, MD, IL, DC, VT, VI, NE, ME; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
NMLS#: 2554449

About Sharon Paul-Jordan

Sharon has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. She has worked with Chris Apgar for over 12 years. Sharon is the primary link between the firm and the client experience. She takes great pride in understanding her client's individual needs and works hard to deliver an exceptional client experience. Sharon has her series 7 and her 66 licenses as well as her Life, Health and Accident Insurance Licenses.

Sharon lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. She spends her weekends volunteering her time for her daughter's soccer club and helping the immigrant people in their community.

About Devon Litchfield

Devon came to Morgan Stanley in 2022 as a Financial Planning Specialist, where she has partnered with advisors across the Firm to develop comprehensive financial plans and forecasts for clients. Prior to that, Devon was with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management as a Client Associate, and later in the Advisor Development Rotational Program. Devon earned her BS in Finance from the University of Delaware and holds the Series 7 and 66 Licenses. Devon works as part of the client service team and is responsible for financial planning and modeling for clients.
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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
Taking Control of Your Finances After Death of a Spouse
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Taking Control of Your Finances After Death of a Spouse

Financial planning after a divorce or death can be trying, but with the right approach and the right advice you can turn a difficult situation into empowerment.

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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