Leigh A Villers
Financial Advisor
Phone:
(304) 528-7020(304) 528-7020
The Villers Group at Morgan Stanley
Direct:
(304) 528-7048(304) 528-7048
Toll-Free:
(800) 554-1358(800) 554-1358
Our Mission Statement
Experience, intellectual capital and dedicated personal service to help you meet your life goals
Our Story and Services
Helping you achieve financial success is our first priority. Morgan Stanley has meaningful intelligence about every major asset class and a presence in every major market, as well as investment research from some of the world’s most respected analysts. Together, we will formulate a strategy to help you achieve your most important goals and then deliver a vast array of resources to you in the way that is most appropriate for how you invest and what you want to achieve.
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Working With You
As your dedicated wealth management team, our role is to craft a personalized financial strategy that aligns with your unique needs. Through our experience working with clients, we have developed a step-by-step approach to service:
1. Introduction and Discovery Meeting(s)
Our relationship begins with an initial discussion aimed towards getting to know you, your lifestyle, and future goals. We review your current financial situation and develop strategies that can help you achieve the financial outcome you envision.
2. Financial Plan Presentation and Discussion
Financial plan presentations map out essential factors that play into financial success. Examining all relevant financial information provides a holistic approach which helps ensure a comprehensive financial plan.
3. Actionable items and Next Steps
After the financial plan presentation, we will follow up regarding our analysis and recommendations, which may include adjustments to your financial plan and investment allocation. We will also establish a time line and prioritize key goals.
4. Implementation Meeting
The implementation meeting focuses on creating prospective strategies custom designed for your specific needs. Recommended changes could include logistics, tax impact, asset allocation adjustments, and saving/benefit modifications.
5. Ongoing Monitoring, Tracking and Adjusting
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 by having regularly scheduled reviews to make sure make sure concerns and requests are always addressed.
Modern Wealth Management Tools
Our comprehensive suite of digital tools are designed to help enhance every aspect of your financial life. Below are a few of the technologies we have to offer our clients. We have also included resources meant to transform complex financial analysis and research into concise and easily digestible content.
Morgan Stanley Online
Morgan Stanley Online digital capabilities and the Morgan Stanley Mobile App provide clients with access to their account information, enriched reporting tools, several cash management solutions and robust market research. The Morgan Stanley Mobile App provides clients with access to their accounts in just a few taps.
What Should I Do With My Money?
A podcast where real people get real answers from Financial Advisors to their most important questions about money.
Listen to the latest episode
Total Wealth View
The ability to view all of your assets together provides the opportunity to advise on your Morgan Stanley accounts with your entire financial picture in mind. This new tool allows you to link information from your accounts at other financial institutions directly to your Morgan Stanley Online or Morgan Stanley Mobile App profile.
Total Wealth View
Thoughts on the Markets Podcast
With perspectives on the forces shaping the market, Mike Wilson, Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist for Morgan Stanley, and his colleagues discuss a variety of viewpoints regarding the latest trends in the financial marketplace.
Listen to the latest episode
Digital Vault
Keeping important documents and financial records organized and readily available is one the best gifts you can give those you love. In the event of catastrophe or serious illness, disability or death, your Family Records Organizer can immediately provide vital, timely information to both your family and professional advisors. The Digital Vault on Morgan Stanley Online and the Mobile App allows you to build a central, shared document library where all documents are stored using encryption.
Morgan Stanley Minute
In this ongoing series of one-minute videos from our firm’s top investment thinkers, you can explore current trends and topics like green bonds, active investment, monetizing small businesses, cybercrime and more.
View our our library of interesting content
eAuthorizations
eAuthorizations allow you to electronically authorize domestic and international, one-time/recurring transactions through Morgan Stanley Online and the Morgan Stanley Mobile App. eAuthorization is convenient, secure, and easy to use. You can authorize any transaction with one click and manage authorizations from anywhere using Morgan Stanley Online or Morgan Stanley Mobile.
eAuthorizations
Secure Email
At Morgan Stanley, safeguarding your personal information is among our highest priorities. Our Secure Email tool is a safe way for you to exchange messages and documents containing sensitive information.
Secure Email & Protecting YourselfTake advantage of our benefits
The benefits of working with a Morgan Stanley Financial Advisor include access to a wide array of brokerage and advisory services tailored to meet individual client needs. We are committed to long-term relationships and results, offering personalized financial plans that consider your assets, debts, income, and expenses. Learn more about these benefits with the resources below.
Total Tax 365
Taxes can be a substantial drag on investment returns. Morgan Stanley Total Tax 365 offers access to a broad range of tax-efficient strategies to help you integrate tax planning into your investment process all year long, maximize portfolio after-tax return potential, manage unrealized gains and help keep more of what you earn.
Financial Planning
Morgan Stanley Financial Planning can show you a single, comprehensive snapshot of your finances. We can help you create a wealth plan that's adaptable to the different stages of your life using our cutting edge tools- Goals Planning System (GPS) and LifeView.
Insured Solutions
As a leader in the distribution of insurance and annuities, our offerings include disability, long-term care and property & casualty insurance, as well as fixed, indexed and variable annuities. Morgan Stanley offers these products in conjunction with its licensed insurance agency affiliates.
Unit Investment Trusts
Idea-driven portfolios that turn innovative trends, themes and insights into powerful investments across asset classes and market sectors with access to third-party and proprietary investment selections based on industry-leading research from across the full scale and global reach of the firm.
Preferred Savings Program
Once you open a Morgan Stanley Brokerage Account, you can make the most of your idle cash with our competitive Preferred Savings Program.
Morgan Stanley CashPlus Brokerage Account
Designed as a modern alternative to banking with the capabilities to help you access, move, and manage cash when you need it while enjoying exclusive benefits.
Location
1200 Third Ave
Ste 100
Huntington, WV 25701
US
Direct:
(304) 528-7048(304) 528-7048
Toll-Free:
(800) 554-1358(800) 554-1358
Meet The Villers Group
John Villers
Financial Advisor
Phone:
(304) 528-7048(304) 528-7048
Angela Elkins
Senior Client Service Associate
Phone:
(304) 528-7007(304) 528-7007
Kathy Whitley
Assistant Vice President, Wealth Management Associate
Phone:
(304) 528-7040(304) 528-7040
Chase M. Villers
Financial Advisor
Phone:
(304) 528-7044(304) 528-7044
Cole Villers
Phone:
(304) 528-7043(304) 528-7043
About Leigh A Villers
Securities Agent: NJ, NE, IL, NV, PA, OH, FL, SC, NY, MD, CO, IN, WV, MI, GA, TN, NC, VT, CA, AL, KY, KS, WI, TX, VA, MO; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
About John Villers
Securities Agent: GA, UT, TN, SC, NE, FL, MI, LA, KY, NC, CO, NM, NJ, MD, IL, AZ, AL, NY, NV, VA, TX, KS, WA, CA, WI, VT, PA, MO, IN, WV, OH; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1811738
NMLS#: 1811738
About Chase M. Villers
Chase is a Financial Advisor with The Villers Group at Morgan Stanley in Huntington, West Virginia. Chase is committed to building long-term relationships with his clients, understanding their unique needs, and crafting tailored plans that aim to address every aspect of their financial lives. Whether it's planning for retirement, managing investments, evaluating risk management strategies, or preparing for unexpected life events, Chase strives to offer guidance that can bring clarity and confidence.
His areas of focus are the creation and implementation of personal and multigenerational financial plans, investment strategies for pre-retirement accumulation of assets, followed by retirement strategies for the distribution of those same investments. He is passionate about helping clients become better stewards of their time and resources so they can live a life of purpose, focus on what matters most, and strive to experience financial confidence.
Chase holds Series 7 and Series 66 licenses as well as a Life and Health Insurance license and received his B.A. Marketing degree from Saint Leo University where he also was a member of the basketball team. Prior to becoming an advisor, Chase had served The Villers Group as a client service associate since 2022. Chase is also an active member of his local church where he serves on the finance board.
Originally from Ashland, Kentucky, Chase now resides in Ironton, Ohio with his wife Tyler. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with family, exercising, and traveling.
His areas of focus are the creation and implementation of personal and multigenerational financial plans, investment strategies for pre-retirement accumulation of assets, followed by retirement strategies for the distribution of those same investments. He is passionate about helping clients become better stewards of their time and resources so they can live a life of purpose, focus on what matters most, and strive to experience financial confidence.
Chase holds Series 7 and Series 66 licenses as well as a Life and Health Insurance license and received his B.A. Marketing degree from Saint Leo University where he also was a member of the basketball team. Prior to becoming an advisor, Chase had served The Villers Group as a client service associate since 2022. Chase is also an active member of his local church where he serves on the finance board.
Originally from Ashland, Kentucky, Chase now resides in Ironton, Ohio with his wife Tyler. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with family, exercising, and traveling.
Securities Agent: MO, GA, MD, WV, TN, NY, IN, SC, NV, NJ, NC, MI, KY, IL, CO, CA, WI, VA, NE, KS, PA, OH, AL, TX, FL, VT; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
About Cole Villers
Cole is a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley and a member of the Villers Group, a generational team built around serving clients and families in the ways they need most. Cole’s practice is centered on helping individuals and families plan with intention, combining technical guidance with a relationship-first approach grounded in transparency, accessibility, and long-term relationships.
As part of the Villers Group, Cole focuses on retirement planning, estate planning strategies, and relationship building to help clients navigate the financial decisions that come with life’s major transitions—career changes, family milestones, caring for loved ones, and the shift from accumulating wealth to using it purposefully. He believes strong planning starts with understanding what matters most to each client, and then building a strategy designed to help support those goals while adapting as life evolves.
Cole and the Villers Group emphasize a comprehensive, family-oriented approach focused on continuity across generations. Whether working with a first-time planner or a multi-generational family, Cole prioritizes clear communication, consistent follow-through, and proactive coordination to help clients keep their plan aligned with their priorities and legacy. His goal is to be a steady resource, helping clients prepare for retirement with greater confidence, discuss estate planning strategies thoughtfully, and maintain a comprehensive strategy that aims to support both immediate needs and long-term intentions.
Cole is a graduate of Marshall University. He takes pride in building lasting relationships and partnering with clients to create plans that reflect not only financial objectives, but also the values and people behind them.
As part of the Villers Group, Cole focuses on retirement planning, estate planning strategies, and relationship building to help clients navigate the financial decisions that come with life’s major transitions—career changes, family milestones, caring for loved ones, and the shift from accumulating wealth to using it purposefully. He believes strong planning starts with understanding what matters most to each client, and then building a strategy designed to help support those goals while adapting as life evolves.
Cole and the Villers Group emphasize a comprehensive, family-oriented approach focused on continuity across generations. Whether working with a first-time planner or a multi-generational family, Cole prioritizes clear communication, consistent follow-through, and proactive coordination to help clients keep their plan aligned with their priorities and legacy. His goal is to be a steady resource, helping clients prepare for retirement with greater confidence, discuss estate planning strategies thoughtfully, and maintain a comprehensive strategy that aims to support both immediate needs and long-term intentions.
Cole is a graduate of Marshall University. He takes pride in building lasting relationships and partnering with clients to create plans that reflect not only financial objectives, but also the values and people behind them.
Securities Agent: IN, WI, NC, TN, NJ, MI, FL, SC, PA, OH, MO, NY, MD, CA, KY, KS, GA, CO, VA, IL, AL, TX, WV, VT, NV, NE; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
Contact Leigh A Villers
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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
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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
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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
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Business Planning
Helping you on key aspects of your business such as ownership, liquidity and developing opportunities.
- Succession Planning
- Business Planning
- Qualified Retirement Plans
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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
Ready to start a conversation? Contact The Villers Group today.
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Morgan Stanley reserves the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to retain and monitor all electronic communications. Morgan Stanley will not accept purchase or sale orders via any Internet site, social media site and/or its messaging systems. Morgan Stanley does not endorse and is not responsible and assumes no liability for content, products or services posted by third-parties on any Internet site, social media site and/or its messaging systems. All electronic communications are subject to terms available at the following link:
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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, investment strategy or service will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC recommends that investors independently evaluate particular investments, strategies and services, 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.
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