My Story and Services

Clients work with me because they want to simplify their finances and they need a strategy to make their money work more efficiently. I believe that it is crucial to preserve your decades of hard work, sacrifice and savings. First class financial services can make a lasting, positive impact on your lifestyle and the legacy you leave behind. Having a disciplined rational approach to investing can remove the emotions that often times get in the way of sound thinking. Most of all, clients need to work with someone they can trust. These are the reasons I am so passionate about the work I do and the people I work with.

With the resources of Morgan Stanley, a global leader in Wealth Management, we offer a customized boutique experience founded on a disciplined planning process. I believe in the efficiency of your capital and that no one should have to build wealth twice.

The foundations of my practice are the experience, client base and longstanding relationships developed over my, Bruce and Tom's careers. In an effort to serve you better, I have worked to expand my services and offerings. Towards that end, I have earned the designations of Financial Planning Specialist, Alternative Investments Director and Insurance Planning Director. Financial planning and customized investment strategies are the fundamental building blocks of my holistic advisory practice.
Services Include
Securities Agent: AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, HI, ID, MD, MI, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY, CA, GA; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
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CA Insurance License #: 0I78995
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Our Financial Planning and Portfolio Management Process

Our planning process begins with you, your personal goals, your financial goals, and your investment objectives. It is holistic in its approach and encompasses all the key elements of your financial life as well as your cash management needs. Your curated wealth plan includes research and recommendations across a wide range of asset classes, themes, models, and investment managers to accomplish your objectives. Your financial plan should include more than just your investment objectives. Rather, it should be tailored to address the personal life and legacy goals you've identified and prioritized.

As a Financial Planning Specialist, Tomer takes the lead on conducting financial planning analysis and portfolio creation for you and your family.

Using our suite of tools, we can create your personal roadmap to help achieve and protect your financial objectives and life goals.

Client Discovery

Our relationship begins with a thorough understanding of your immediate needs, priorities and goals. We'll discover details about your credit and basic finances and help you take precautions to maintain credit and preserve assets.

Asset Allocation

We develop a tailored roadmap to begin to help you rebuild your wealth and achieve the outcomes you seek. We'll identify the strategies to help you:
• Plan for retirement
• Provide healthcare protection for yourself and your children
• Revise your estate and legacy plan
• Advise you in reducing your tax liability

Portfolio Construction

Next, we help you implement the strategies we formulate together, taking into account special circumstances, such as tax consequences of selling large assets like your home or your business.

Monitoring and Review

Achieving your goals requires vigilance and flexibility. This is why we monitor your process and make adjustments as your life evolves, markets and tax laws shift, and your priorities change.

LifeView® Helps Us Help You By:

• Analyzing your current investments and financial situation
• Reviewing and prioritizing your other goals such as retirement, education or business interests
• Major purchases and philanthropic goals
• Help protect your wealth from potential liabilities
• Develop wealth transfer strategies tax-efficiently

Portfolio Management

We will work with you to help translate your goals into a specific investment objective and personalized investment strategy. Then, utilizing our Portfolio Manager's knowledge, team's experience, and Morgan Stanley's resources, we will structure your portfolio for you. We'll continuously monitor your investments and evaluate the strategy, striving to bring you closer to your definition of investment success.

Alternatives Deep Dive

We have deep experience in Alternative Investments. As an Alternative Investments Director, Tomer provides individuals and institutions access to world-class investment strategies spanning private equity, real assets, private credit, hedge funds, and digital assets. These strategies may deliver differentiated sources of return relative to traditional equity and fixed-income investments, as well as offer the potential for tax efficiency. The many potential benefits that alternatives can provide you include:

• Diversification of holdings, you would not be heavily exposed in any one risk area
• Volatility reduction
• Mitigation of tax liabilities
• Cash flow and income benefits

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    The Morgan Stanley Advantage

    With over 45 years of experience and $180 billion in client assets invested in alternatives, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is a renowned industry leader in this asset class. Individuals and institutions have access to exclusive offerings, preeminent fund managers, and creative investment opportunities spanning:
    • Private Equity
    • Private Credit
    • Real Estate / Real Assets
    • Hedge Funds
    • Digital Assets
    • Tax-Advantaged Strategies

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    Why Alternative Investments?

    Alternatives are investments that go beyond traditional stocks and bonds. What this means to you is they can open doors for additional and exclusive investment opportunities, lower volatility, and advantages for greater yields and returns. This includes:
    • Expanding your wealth-building opportunities
    • Portfolio diversification
    • Lower Volatility
    • Potential for greater tax-efficiency

    Read More: Alternative Investments Brochure
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    Innovative Ways to Diversify Your Portfolio

    Alternative strategies, such as those focused on hedge funds, private capital, and real assets, have long been appealing as a potential source of higher yields, lower volatility, and returns uncorrelated with stocks and bonds. Still, such strategies are typically reserved for institutional and ultra-high-net-worth investors, which have been out of reach for many individuals. The good news is working with Morgan Stanley, you have access to a host of these innovative investment vehicles.

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    Alternative Strategies: 6 Key Themes

    In today's environments where traditional investing can be very standardized, alternative investments can play an important strategic role in certain portfolios. They can help diversify a portfolio and serve as an inflation hedge, as well as provide potential income. Here are six strategies that can guide your thinking on alternative investing in the near to intermediate term.

    Read More: 6 Opportunities in Alternative Strategies

Insurance and Annuity Solutions

A sound wealth plan involves more than just seeking returns. It involves mitigating and managing risks, as well as helping you prepare for when the unexpected occurs. Insurance, annuities, and longevity planning strategies are often used to help you plan for and guard against life's hidden curves. Tomer helps you protect your hard-earned assets and your family's well-being.

As an Insurance Planning Director and Financial Planning Specialist, Tomer works with you to identify strategies that fit your family's unique situation and can be incorporated into your comprehensive wealth and legacy plan. This approach helps enhance your tax efficiency and protect you and your loved ones from the unexpected.

Learn more about the considerations, asset protection, and tax benefits associated with insurance, annuities, and other longevity planning solutions.

Feel welcome to explore the resources below and contact me to discuss.

Our Suite of Digital Tools & Seasonal Resources

Our comprehensive suite of digital tools are designed to help enhance every aspect of your financial life. Here are a few of the technologies and seasonal resources we have to offer our clients.

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    2024 Tax Tables

    Plan for this year's taxes with the 2024 Tax Tables.

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    2025 Tax Tables

    Plan for next year's taxes with the 2025 Tax Tables.

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    2025 Retirement Plan Contribution Limits

    The IRS has announced the new maximum retirement plan contribution limits for 2025

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    On The Markets

    Detailed market commentary from Morgan Stanley's thought leaders on topics such as global equities, fixed income, monetary policy and more.

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    Wealth Management Tools:
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    Morgan Stanley Online

    View your investments and finances in just a few clicks with Morgan Stanley Online (MSO) and the Morgan Stanley Mobile App.

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    Total Wealth View

    Managing multiple financial accounts across different firms can be complicated. With Morgan Stanley Online, you can link your non-Morgan Stanley accounts and analyze your cash flow all in one place for more informed wealth planning.

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    eDelivery

    eDelivery provides you with the ability to view statements and other Firm documents electronically. Clients who are registered in Morgan Stanley Online may enroll in eDelivery.

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    Digital Vault

    Digital Vault lets you easily and conveniently manage and share life's most important documents, such as wills, deeds and estate plans, as well as financial statements and tax filings.

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    Security Center

    Safeguarding your assets and personal information is among our highest priorities. Learn about our security measures and use our resources and ideas to help protect yourself online.

    Online Security Center

Location

4350 La Jolla Village Dr
Ste 1000
San Diego, CA 92122
US
Direct:
(858) 597-7726(858) 597-7726
Toll-Free:
(800) 237-4821(800) 237-4821

Meet My Team

About Nic Trounce

Nic has worked on the E*TRADE side of Morgan Stanley for the last 5 years. Prior to his time with E*TRADE he had been in the insurance industry as an Agent and in the logistics industry as an Account Executive.

Nic graduated from BYU-I with a degree in business Management and has always had a fascination with finance which eventually led him to the industry. Nic recently relocated to San Diego with his wife Paige and two little boys Russell and Johnny, which they are excited about as they both grew up in California. In Nic's spare time, he enjoys playing basketball and watching basketball, specifically the Lakers. Nic is a classic "car geek," and above all else, enjoys spending time with his family.

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 Keller Casey

Keller Casey is a Planning Associate at Morgan Stanley providing dedicated financial planning support to Financial Advisors and their teams. Operating as an extension of the FA/Team, he collaborates with clients to discover and define goals that matter most to them. Leveraging state of the art technology, he will evaluate various options and their potential outcomes to help clients confidently choose the appropriate course of action. Keller provides expertise across a wide suite of Morgan Stanley planning tools designed to assist in the areas of investment accumulation, retirement, education, major purchase, cash flow, risk management, tax efficiency, and wealth transfer planning.

He earned his undergraduate degree from The University of Oklahoma and received the Financial Planning Specialist® designation from the College for Financial Planning. Keller is originally from Dallas, TX and currently resides in New York, NY.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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