My Story and Services

William McBride develops comprehensive financial strategies for affluent individuals, families, charitable trusts and institutions. As a small boutique within Morgan Stanley, William McBride brings a high level of service and custom-tailored solutions to each relationship as well as the strength and resources of a leading global financial institution. Our clients value our ability to address a broad array of complex issues, simplify their financial lives, and ultimately help them achieve their goals.
Services Include
Securities Agent: MT, CO, WA, VT, UT, TX, TN, SC, OR, OH, NY, NV, NM, NC, KS, ME, MA, MS, IA, HI, MD, FL, CA, AZ, AR, NH, MI, LA, KY, IN; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative; Managed Futures
NMLS#: 1268305
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    Awards
    • William McBride: 2017 Pacesetter Award
    • William McBride: 2018 Pacesetter Award
    • William McBride: 2019 Pacesetter Award
    • William McBride: 2020 Pacesetter Award
    • William McBride: 2021 Pacesetter Award
    • William McBride: Five Star Wealth Manager Award 2020
    • William McBride: Five Star Wealth Manager Award 2021
    • William McBride: Five Star Wealth Manager Award 2022
    • William McBride: Five Star Wealth Manager Award 2023
    • William McBride: Five Star Wealth Manager Award 2024
    • William McBride: Five Star Wealth Manager Award 2025
    Promotions and News
    • William McBride: Promoted to Senior Vice President
    • William McBride: Certified Exit Planning Advisor
    • William McBride: Promoted to Director, Investing with Impact
    • William McBride: Promoted to Portfolio Management Director
    • William McBride: Promoted to Vice President at Morgan Stanley
    • William McBride: Certified Portfolio Manager Press Release
    Disclosure(s):
    2020-2025 Five Star Wealth Manager Award
    Source: fivestarprofessional.com (Awarded 2020-2025) These awards were determined through an evaluation process conducted by Five-Star Professional, based on objective criteria, during the following periods:
    2020 Award - 3/1/2019 - 10/18/2019
    2021 Award - 3/30/2020 - 10/16/2020
    2022 Award - 4/12/2021 - 10/15/2021
    2023 Award - 3/21/2022 - 9/16/2022
    2024 Award - 2/13/2023 - 8/31/2023
    2025 Award- 2/13/2024 - 8/30/2024
    Memberships
    • Athlete's Touch
    • Employee Sustainable Forum

Working With You

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Our Six Stage Process to Designed Exceed Client's Expectations


1. Discovery Process
Investing the time to learn about you and your family; your assets and liabilities and the risk exposures, enables us to formulate strategies and customize the relationship to your needs.

2. Formulation of Tax, Trust and Estate Strategy
Working with your tax and legal advisors, we help analyze your income and estate tax circumstances to identify and tailor planning techniques that may be used to address your objectives.

3. Creation of Customized Strategic Asset Allocation
Your customized asset allocation reflects risk, opportunities and taxation across multiple entities, while integrating your investing and estate plans.

4. Integration of Tactical Asset Allocation
Short-term adjustments seek to capitalize on temporary market distortions. Before making adjustments, we analyze the impact of taxes and trading costs on potential returns. Tactical Asset Allocation includes hedging to try and minimize risk.

5. Implementation of a Customized Wealth Strategy
After comprehensive due diligence and analysis of expected results across multiple market scenarios, strategies are chosen from our expansive investment platform.

6. Ongoing Assessment
In coordination with your other advisors, we can conduct ongoing reviews and comprehensive reporting to help ensure that your strategy adapts to changing financial and family needs.
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Our clients consists of a select group of entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, and retirees from fields including real estate, technology, bio-technology, cybersecurity, venture capital, consulting, law, medicine, accounting, banking and education. They reside across the country with about 60% in Southern California, 15% in other parts of California and 25% outside of California. Many of our clients own closely held businesses and need multi-generational wealth planning. It is common to have 3 generations of a family as clients. The better we know our families the better we strive to serve them.
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Investing with Impact
Our team places high value on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). By taking into account these factors, we can make more responsible and sustainable investments. We believe that by making these considerations, our investment process will create long term value for our clients.
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Location

1111 Prospect Street
Suite 200
La Jolla, CA 92037
US
Direct:
(858) 729-5274(858) 729-5274
Fax:
(760) 931-4647(760) 931-4647

Meet My Team

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 Robert Breyer

Robert is a Planning Associate at Morgan Stanley providing dedicated financial planning support to 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 alternatives and their potential outcomes to help clients confidently choose the appropriate course of action. Robert 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.

Robert earned his undergraduate degree from Carleton College and received the Financial Planning Specialist® designation from the College for Financial Planning. Robert is originally from Washington and currently resides in the New York area.
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