My Story and Services

"As your Financial Advisor, I 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, I can help you seek to preserve and grow your wealth. You will 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."
Securities Agent: VI, NV, VT, WA, NC, WY, WV, WI, RI, OH, VA, OK, TN, NY, OR, PR, PA, TX, SC, NH, NM, MI, LA, NE, ND, KS, SD, NJ, MN, MD, ME, MA, ID, CO, IN, IL, MT, IA, HI, AR, GA, AK, DE, AL, AZ, DC, KY, CA, UT, CT, MO, MS, FL; BM/Supervisor; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Transactional Futures/Commodities; Managed Futures
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How we will work together

Communication is the backbone of our practice. We ask questions about your goals, your time horizon, and your risk tolerance. Then, we listen. This is an ongoing process that helps us get to know you and your situation to allow us to work towards all of your most important goals, short and-long term.
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    Step 1 - Discovery
    Our relationship begins with a thorough understanding of your immediate needs, priorities and goals. We’ll discuss details about your financial wealth and health to help you take precautions that seek to maintain credit and preserve assets. This is when we work together to establish a set of objectives based on your financial goals, time horizon, liquidity needs, and risk tolerance.
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    Step 2 - Creation
    We will develop a tailored road map to begin to help you rebuild your wealth and work towards achieving the outcomes you seek. We’ll identify the strategies to help you plan for your goals such as retirement planning, insurance planning needs for yourself and your family and finalizing your estate planning strategy.

    The strategies within your road map will be supported by a customized investment strategy intended to help work towards your goals while considering the appropriate level of risk.
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    Step 3 - Act
    We help you implement the strategies that we have formulated thus far, taking into account special circumstances such as divorce, inheritance, purchase or sale of a business or home, and the potential associated tax consequences.
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    Step 4 - Adjust
    Achieving your goals requires vigilance and flexibility. We will monitor your portfolio to track its performance relative to your stated objectives and make adjustments as your life evolves, as the markets and tax laws shift, and as your priorities change. We will leverage a vast array of resources at Morgan Stanley depending on your needs and connect with your CPA, attorney, and other relevant contacts in your financial life.

Equity Compensation Overview

For most of our clients, wealth building begins at work. Helping you make the most of your compensation and the benefits you receive through your employer may help you reach your financial goals more quickly. We can help you make what might be the most monumental financial decision of your lifetime. We think it's important to consider and discuss the following:

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    Equity Compensation Helps You Meet Your Goals

    Helping you understand how your equity compensation works can allow us to more effectively integrate your equity award into your broader financial plan and use it to help meet your goals.

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    Diversifying Company Equity Holdings

    Equity compensation can be a powerful tool for building wealth, but be careful not to put all your eggs in one basket. Learn more.

    Disclosures:
    Asset allocation and diversification do not guarantee a profit or protect against a loss in a declining financial market.

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    Tax Considerations with Equity Compensation

    If you're hoping to use your workplace equity compensation to help you achieve your financial goals, it's important to make sure that you have a strategy to manage your tax obligation as well.

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    The Basics Of Stock Options

    Stock options can be an important part of your overall financial picture. Understanding what they are can help you make the most of the benefits they may provide.

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Fairhope, AL 36532
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(251) 990-2955(251) 990-2955
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Birmingham, AL 35243
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The Power of Partnerships

By partnering with experienced individuals across wealth disciplines, Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors can align specialized resources with your custom needs and deliver strategic guidance through the familiarity and trust of existing relationships

About Brandon Marsh

Brandon Marsh, CPWA® is a Vice President and Financial Planning Director serving Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management offices in Alabama, Arkansas, and the Florida Panhandle. Brandon is responsible for helping Financial Advisors with their clients' and prospects' financial planning needs.

Brandon began his career in financial services as a financial analyst upon graduating from college and joined Morgan Stanley in 2014. His career in the financial services industry spans more than 21 years, during which time he has held roles in various aspects of the industry, including fixed income, asset liability, portfolio management, and derivative experience. Brandon’s scope of experience lends delivering guidance and skilled focus to clients on a variety of areas of financial planning concerns.

Brandon holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. As a FINRA registered representative, he holds Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses. Brandon has earned a CPWA (Certified Private Wealth Advisor) designation, awarded by the Investments & Wealth Institute. Brandon lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife Hayley and two sons Paul and Walton. He enjoys time spent with family, fishing with his boys, coaching sports teams, and scouts.

About Sam Gaitan

Sam Gaitan is an Associate Financial Planning Director serving Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management offices in New York City. He is responsible for helping Financial Advisors with their clients and prospects financial planning needs.

Sam began his career in financial services in 2022 at Morgan Stanley. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he worked in Marketing Research industry for six years as an Account Manager servicing institutional retail clients.

Sam graduated from Pace University and holds his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™. Sam is originally from Queens, New York and currently resides in Queens, New York. Outside of work, Sam volunteers coaching little league baseball, attending sporting events, and traveling to new destinations every year.


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Important information about your relationship with your Financial Advisor and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC when using a Financial Planning tool. When your Financial Advisor prepares a Financial Plan, they will act in an investment advisory capacity for thirty (30) days after the delivery of your Financial Plan. To understand the differences between brokerage and advisory relationships, you should consult your Financial Advisor, or review our “Understanding Your Brokerage and Investment Advisory Relationships,” brochure available at https://www.morganstanley.com/wealth-relationshipwithms/pdfs/understandingyourrelationship.pdf.

You have sole responsibility for making all investment decisions with respect to the implementation of a Financial Plan. You may implement the Financial Plan at Morgan Stanley or at another firm. If you engage or have engaged Morgan Stanley, it will act as your broker, unless you ask it, in writing, to act as your investment adviser on any account.

Morgan Stanley offers a wide array of brokerage and advisory services to its clients, each of which may create a different type of relationship with different obligations to you. Please consult with your Financial Advisor to understand these differences.


Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors and 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, charitable giving, philanthropic planning, and other legal matters.

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Important information about your relationship with your Financial Advisor and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC when using a Financial Planning tool. When your Financial Advisor prepares a Financial Plan, they will act in an investment advisory capacity for thirty (30) days after the delivery of your Financial Plan. To understand the differences between brokerage and advisory relationships, you should consult your Financial Advisor, or review our “Understanding Your Brokerage and Investment Advisory Relationships,” brochure available at https://www.morganstanley.com/wealth-relationshipwithms/pdfs/understandingyourrelationship.pdf.

You have sole responsibility for making all investment decisions with respect to the implementation of a Financial Plan. You may implement the Financial Plan at Morgan Stanley or at another firm. If you engage or have engaged Morgan Stanley, it will act as your broker, unless you ask it, in writing, to act as your investment adviser on any particular account.

Morgan Stanley offers a wide array of brokerage and advisory services to its clients, each of which may create a different type of relationship with different obligations to you. Please consult with your Financial Advisor to understand these differences.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors and 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, charitable giving, philanthropic planning and other legal matters.

Important information about your relationship with your Financial Advisor and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC when using a Financial Planning tool. When your Financial Advisor prepares a Financial Plan, they will act in an investment advisory capacity for thirty (30) days after the delivery of your Financial Plan. To understand the differences between brokerage and advisory relationships, you should consult your Financial Advisor, or review our “Understanding Your Brokerage and Investment Advisory Relationships,” brochure available at https://www.morganstanley.com/wealth-relationshipwithms/pdfs/understandingyourrelationship.pdf.

You have sole responsibility for making all investment decisions with respect to the implementation of a Financial Plan. You may implement the Financial Plan at Morgan Stanley or at another firm. If you engage or have engaged Morgan Stanley, it will act as your broker, unless you ask it, in writing, to act as your investment adviser on any particular account.

Morgan Stanley offers a wide array of brokerage and advisory services to its clients, each of which may create a different type of relationship with different obligations to you. Please consult with your Financial Advisor to understand these differences.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors and 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, charitable giving, philanthropic planning and other legal matters.

When Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors and Private Wealth Advisors (collectively, “Morgan Stanley”) provide “investment advice” regarding a retirement or welfare benefit plan account, an individual retirement account or a Coverdell education savings account (“Retirement Account”), Morgan Stanley is a “fiduciary” as those terms are defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), as applicable. When Morgan Stanley provides investment education, takes orders on an unsolicited basis or otherwise does not provide “investment advice”, Morgan Stanley will not be considered a “fiduciary” under ERISA and/or the Code. For more information regarding Morgan Stanley’s role with respect to a Retirement Account, please visit www.morganstanley.com/disclosures/dol. Tax laws are complex and subject to change. Morgan Stanley does not provide tax or legal advice. Individuals are encouraged to consult their tax and legal advisors (a) before establishing a Retirement Account, and (b) regarding any potential tax, ERISA and related consequences of any investments or other transactions made with respect to a Retirement Account.

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