My Story and Services

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, I worked for Central Bank of China, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a world-leading multi-disciplinary consulting firm. Working together with my clients' tax advisors and attorneys, I help my clients construct personalized financial plans and develop tax efficient investment strategies.

As an International Financial Advisor, I advise international clients living in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Ireland, BVI, and the Cayman Islands. I have extensive experience providing holistic cross-border wealth management solutions for high-net-worth individuals and families.

I am confident that I can help develop an investment strategy properly weighted for your financial goals and views toward risk. I look forward to meeting with you and your family.

Community Service
I have served on the board of the Joy Culture Foundation and Little Bookwork Library for years. They provide educational and cultural programs and gathering spaces to help Chinese-speaking families build confidence, identity, and community.

Services Include
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HAVE A PLAN

Partner
We are a thought partner. We provide perspective and advice on the markets and life's many financial decisions.
Your Goals
We begin with a conversation to understand your lifestyle plus your financial and life goals. Some goals may be immediate while others may be years in the future.
Develop a Financial Plan
We can create a financial plan that projects the probabilities of success for different retirement ages and income. We can model different levels of equity compensation, savings, spending levels, rates of inflation, and returns. We can identify actions to start today to help you accomplish your retirement goals. The plan provides a roadmap for action and a framework to measure and monitor your progress.
For Clients with Equity Compensation – Discuss a Diversification Strategy
What do you want to fund or accomplish with your shares? We can review your restricted stock grants (RSU and PSUs), stock options, and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) shares and set financial goals for each type of equity benefit. We can write and manage a 10b5-1 plan to automate a time and/or price-based program to sell and diversify your employee compensation shares over time.
Asset Allocation and Investments
Once we determine your financial goals and timelines, we can select an asset allocation and the investment approach for your various financial asset "buckets". Each bucket has its own investment goal, such as a portfolio to build interest and dividend income to replace your work income. We offer managed stock portfolios, tax free municipal bonds, exchange funds for low basis stock, and charitable giving Donor Advised Funds. We can coordinate with your CPA to provide a tax efficient investment plan.
Track Progress and Adjust
We will connect on a regular basis and track your progress towards your goals. We will adjust as life evolves, priorities shift, markets, and tax laws change.
Estate and Legacy Planning Strategies
We can connect you with estate planning specialists who can help you create a thoughtful tax efficient estate plan. An estate plan outlines how to title your assets and distribute your assets during and after your life. You identify beneficiaries in an estate plan and specify whether to transfer assets to them with or without restrictions. It's good to review your estate plan periodically and after life changes such as a marriage, divorce, or a family birth. Often people plan on how to build assets for their retirement but spend little time on how to distribute their assets upon their death.
Morgan Stanley's Resources and Expertise
Morgan Stanley has the resources to support your financial needs at every stage of life. While we offer solutions for complex situations, we understand simplicity has value. We are committed to building, preserving, and managing the wealth of our clients.
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Your Equity Compensation

Our team has helped officers and key employees manage and sell their equity compensation for over 35 years. We help officers and employees fold their equity compensation into a comprehensive financial plan. We design, implement, and manage 10b5-1 plans and are well versed in the Rule 144 and Form 4 officer reporting requirements. Our team partners with our affiliates at Shareworks and E*TRADE to provide companies and their employees a tailored equity compensation service.
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    Diversification Strategies for Public Company Executives
    This report covers diversification strategies for investors with a large position in a single stock including 10b5-1 plans, exchange funds for low basis stock, Granter Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT), Donor Advised Funds and charitable gifts of stock.
    Diversification Strategies for Public Company Executives
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    10b5-1 Trading Plans
    10b5-1 plans allow officers and insiders to establish a trading plan that will schedule and automatically sell their company stock in the future. We help clients design and implement a time and/or price based 10b5-1 trading plan. As our clients sell their equity compensation, we help them check financial goals complete such as buying a house, covering children’s college education, and building a diversified investment portfolio.
    10b5-1 Trading Plans: What To Know
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    Understanding Your RSU Equity Awards
    Restricted Stock Units (RSU & PSUs) are a type of compensation that is delivered in shares of company stock, if time and/or performance measures and vesting requirements, are met. This video reviews the life cycle of your RSU award.
    What is an RSU
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    How are RSUs Taxed?
    This video outlines the taxation of RSUs. Discuss your equity compensation with your CPA.
    Learn how RSU’s are taxed
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    Understanding Your Stock Options
    This white paper covers features and provisions of employee stock options.
    Stock Options 101
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    What is a Stock Option 101
    This video explains how stock options work and your exercise alternatives.
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    What to Expect When You're Expecting to Go Public
    This guide discusses tax planning strategies for equity compensation prior to an IPO such as 83(b) elections, early exercise, share gifts, (GRATs), and legacy planning.
    What to Expect When You're Expecting to Go Public

THE DANIELS GROUP AT MORGAN STANLEY

With our expertise and our firm's extensive resources, we can help you navigate life's many financial decisions, and help protect and grow your wealth. We are a thought partner. We provide financial advice, guidance, and perspective. Our nine advisors manage 5.97 billion dollars of our client's assets* and have a tenure of 4 to 42 years with Morgan Stanley.

While our client base is diverse, our specialty is working with executives and entrepreneurs who receive a significant portion of their compensation in equity compensation, including restricted stock awards and stock options.

We can help you develop a comprehensive financial plan that incorporates your equity compensation, maps out a diversification strategy and will help you identify, and achieve your financial goals. We can help you design, implement, and manage a 10b5-1 plan to sell and diversify your company stock.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss your goals.

*($5.97B as of 12/31/24)

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    Xiuying Jin - Financial Advisor, International Client Advisor

    Phone: (650) 926-7137
    Email: Xiuying.Jin@morganstanley.com

    I graduated with a master's degree at Jilin University and got a master's degree and finished my PhD coursework in econometrics and statistics at Oregon State University. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, I worked for Central Bank of China in Beijing, at a world leading technical and engineering consulting firm in Shanghai, and the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. I also taught Economics at Menlo College as an Adjunct Professor.

    Working together with my clients' tax advisors and attorneys, I help my clients construct a personalized financial plan and develop tax efficient strategies for their investments and overall portfolio. As an International Financial Advisor, I advise international clients living in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, UK, Ireland, BVI, and the Cayman Islands. I have extensive experience providing holistic cross border wealth management solutions for high-net-worth individuals and families.

    We can help develop an investment strategy which weighs your financial goals, timeline, and views towards risk.

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    Tim Davis - Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor, Executive Financial Services Director

    Phone: (415) 949-6120
    Email: Tim.B.Davis@morganstanley.com

    As a Senior Vice President and Executive Financial Services Director my focus is connecting clients to a wide range of Morgan Stanley's institutional and wealth management services. I help my clients get organized, diversify, and on the right track to achieve their goals.

    I help company executives, such as CFOs, Controllers, Treasurers, Stock Plan Administrators, HR professionals and Total Rewards employees and their respective teams, navigate the complex issues of executive compensation. I also present equity compensation seminars to large groups of employees which helps them better navigate their path to financial security. While we offer solutions for complex situations, we understand simplicity has value.

    I began my career in 1998, after receiving my Bachelor of Science degree in International Management from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. For the next decade, I worked in finance and sales of Corporate Stock Benefit Plans at UBS, E*TRADE and Citigroup while earning my MBA. I joined Morgan Stanley in 2011 as a Corporate Client Group Director, delivering wealth management solutions to executives and entrepreneurs with large single stock positions. We integrate our clients' equity compensation into a comprehensive, goal-based, wealth management plan.

    Outside of work, my wife and I are happily consumed with the activities of our three kids. I enjoy coaching their baseball teams, skiing and deep-sea fishing.

    Tim Davis
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    Steven Daniels - Managing Director, Financial Advisor

    Phone: (650) 926-7667
    Email: steven.daniels@morganstanley.com

    I grew up in Corvallis Oregon and graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Finance. I had two terrific professors, in economics and finance, who sparked my interest in the financial markets. I paid for my college education by working during the summer breaks in Alaska on two commercial salmon fishing boats. Working long hours in Alaska helped me appreciate the value of discipline, teamwork, and hard work.

    After college I traveled across the United States and Europe, taking me from San Francisco to Boston and Marrakesh to Helsinki where I met my future wife. My travels ended on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park CA in 1983. Silicon Valley was young, vibrant and had an exciting new energy. Our Menlo Park branch manager hired me when I arrived with not much more than a backpack and a desire to work in finance.

    Over forty years later, I am a Managing Director, and work in that same office. Our team manages $5.97 billion of our clients' assets.* We are financial advisors and a thought partner. We provide financial planning, perspective on the markets, and advice on investments. We work with many technology professionals who receive a large part of their compensation in equity. We believe a goals-based investment approach increases investors' financial confidence, which can improve long term returns.

    *($5.97B as of 12/31/2024)

    Steven Daniels
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    Michael Curts - Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor, Senior Portfolio Manager

    Phone: (650) 926-7178
    Email: Michael.Curts@morganstanley.com

    As a native of Indiana, I developed an appreciation of Midwestern values and hard work. In 2006, I moved to California and started my career in the financial services industry as a Client Service Associate at Smith Barney which is now Morgan Stanley by merger. My passion for becoming a financial advisor and assisting clients began in the Great Recession in 2008. In this period of extreme market volatility, I learned to appreciate the value of proactive investment solutions based on sound diversification strategies.

    In 2008, guided by the values I learned growing up and with a diligent focus on preserving my clients' hard-earned wealth, I carefully advised each client through the difficult financial and emotional roller coaster they personally experienced.

    Today, we focus on diversified investment strategies for hard-working corporate executives and clients focused on retirement planning. I hold Financial Planning Specialist and Senior Portfolio Manager designations from Morgan Stanley. Whether a client is looking for advice on 10b5-1 trading plans, executive compensation, investment style allocation, or the selection and evaluation of investment opportunities, we initially focus on learning what the client values.

    Michael Curts
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    Elizabeth Dong, CFA, CFP® - Vice President, Financial Advisor, International Client Advisor

    Phone: (650) 926-7189
    Email: Elizabeth.Dong@morganstanley.com

    We help many successful executives manage their global employee stock plan benefits, set up 10b5-1 stock trading plans for corporate officers and insiders, implement strategies for concentrated equity positions, and establish estate planning strategies for their families.

    I help clients understand the risks and complexities of managing cross border investments both in the US and Asia. I speak fluent Mandarin and I value clear and effective communication. I help my clients better manage their global wealth.

    I started my investment career in 2006. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2013, I was a member of a team that managed $20 billion in assets at a large investment management company. I earned my MBA in Finance from Miami University and received a Graduate Certificate in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. I currently hold the Chartered Financial Analyst™ (CFA®) and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) designations.

    Elizabeth Dong
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    Charlie A Ramos - First Vice President, Financial Advisor, Alternative Investments Director

    Phone: (650) 926-7105
    Email: Charlie.Ramos@morganstanley.com

    For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by economics and the finance industry. In high school, I was a messenger in the mail room of a financial firm on Wall Street. During college, I transitioned from delivering stock certificates, and other client packages in New York City to statistical analysis for another Wall Street firm. I continued in financial services by working in compliance and then transitioned to a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley in Menlo Park, California.

    I earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a minor in Business Law at St. Peters University, where I serve on the Board of Regents and Investment Committee. At Morgan Stanley, I help foster the firm's values as a member of the Pacific Coast Region's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council.

    As financial advisors, we work directly with our clients on executive and equity compensation planning, goal setting and financial planning. I look forward to the opportunity to talk with you.

    Charlie Ramos
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    Jessica Marguet - Vice President, Financial Advisor, Financial Planning Specialist

    Phone: (650) 926-7231
    Email: Jessie.Marguet@morganstanley.com

    Having grown up in the finance industry, I have seen the world of financial advice evolve through many economic cycles, and shifts in technology, and theory. After graduating summa cum laude from UC Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and minor in Business Communications, I returned to Silicon Valley to join the Daniels Group and help clients build a secure financial future.

    We focus on long-term tax-efficient investing and emphasize diversification. We are holistic Financial Advisors, so whether you are interested in retirement planning, college funding, estate planning, insurance, gifts to charity, or selling stock in an employee compensation plan we have the resources to cover your financial needs. With Morgan Stanley's access to some of the world's most seasoned and respected investment professionals, a premier trading platform and spectrum of investment choices, together, we can create and monitor a dynamic plan that will evolve and adjust at each stage of your life.

    Jessica Marguet
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    Jim Marguet - Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor

    Phone: (650) 926-7654
    Email: J.Marguet@morganstanley.com

    Since joining Morgan Stanley's Sand Hill Road office in 1983, in the heart of Silicon Valley, I have dedicated 42 years to providing careful financial advice to individuals, families, and corporate executives.

    I have witnessed many market cycles from difficult recessions to unprecedented booms and have guided clients through these times by providing market insights, investment perspectives, and financial advice. With a long-term investment approach, I tailor each investment portfolio to align with our clients' specific philosophy and needs.

    Whether you want to diversify your equity compensation stock awards, focus on wealth accumulation, improve your portfolio's tax-efficiency, measure and reduce your portfolio risk, give to charity, or more, I welcome the opportunity to help you identify and achieve your goals.

    Jim Marguet
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    Parker Bauman - Financial Advisor

    Phone: (650) 926-7221
    Email: Parker.Bauman@morganstanley.com

    Every journey we undertake has a beginning and destination. To reach your destination a path must be clearly identified and then followed.

    My journey to join Morgan Stanley as a Financial Advisor and Financial Planning Specialist in the Silicon Valley reflects this principle. After graduating from high school, I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where I learned the importance of setting a clear goal to reach a destination. Following my service, I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and minor in Business Law from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

    During the 2008 financial crisis, I served as a bankruptcy and restructuring professional for individual and corporate debtors. Assisting clients through this period of financial turmoil reinforced the critical importance of establishing well-defined goals. This experience led me to understand the success of a financial journey is determined by the quality of the advice, guidance, and plan.

    Whether you seek guidance on managing your executive compensation, investment portfolio, lending and cash management, or estate, trust, and legacy planning; the first step is articulating your current position and financial goals. Your journey and destination are unique to you and your family. Let's get started on a financial plan that we can monitor and measure your progress.

    Parker Bauman
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    Jackson Thoreson - Financial Advisor

    Phone: (650) 926-7206
    Email: Jackson.thoreson@morganstanley.com

    Joining Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in June 2024 as a Financial Advisor, Jackson is focused on serving the wealth management needs for individuals and families, entrepreneurs, coaches and athletes, and executives and employees of private and public companies. Jackson and his partners advise across many areas of wealth management including financial and estate planning, asset allocation, lending, and investment management strategies.

    Jackson puts a premium on understanding the individual needs and challenges of his clients, asking deeper questions, and taking a customized approach to address those concerns. Time-horizon, risk tolerance, lifestyle, and long-term goals lay the foundation for a wealth management process that can adapt to different market conditions.

    Jackson began his career in the financial services industry in 2019 after a previous career in professional sports. Knowing the challenges of being in transition, he shares that experience through helping with important life events such as retirement, relocation, and job changes.

    Jackson was raised in San Jose, CA, where he attended Bellarmine College Preparatory. Jackson graduated from Saint Mary's College of California with an Economics Bachelor's Degree.

    Jackson and his wife Paige have a Cavalier King Charles named Clarke and live in San Jose.

    Jackson Thoreson
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    Roy King - First Vice President, Business Development Director

    Phone: (650) 926-7689
    Email: Roy.U.King.II@morganstanley.com

    Roy King joined Morgan Stanley and the Daniels Group in January of 2000, at the Y2K peak and right before the "Dot Com" bust. Those two events gave Roy perspective on the value of setting long term goals and not letting present day "chaos" drive emotional decisions.

    Roy wears many hats with The Daniels Group but primarily focuses on B2B business development, managing Corporate Equity Stock Plan relationships, and 10b5-1 Plan administration. Although Roy's primary role is overseeing our team's equity compensation and 10b5-1 plan operations, he also enjoys helping our wealth management clients develop a goals-based financial plan while monitoring their long-term progress.

    Roy has a background in Radio Broadcasting and Commercial Construction but prefers to spend his days on his Bass Boat fishing local Lakes and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. He grew up in Petaluma, CA but has lived in the East Bay, CA for the past 3 decades along with his two sons and his dog - Broc.

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    Jia He - Business Development Associate

    Phone: (650) 926-7682
    Email: Jia.He@morganstanley.com

    Jia joined Morgan Stanly in 2014 as a Client Relationship Associate. She currently manages all aspects of client interactions for the three senior advisors of the Daniels Group, including client onboarding, cash management, and 10b5-1 trade reporting, in addition to individual client specific services.

    After graduating from UC Davis with a dual degree in International Economics and Classical Music, she began her career in finance as an Associate Financial Advisor and Team Marketing Director, at Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining the financial industry, she worked on multinational public relations projects such as Governor Schwarzenegger's China Trade Mission and Economic Regeneration ventures in liaison with The Prince's Trust in London, UK.

    She holds Series 7 and 66 licenses and lives in San Jose with her husband Colin and son Liam. She enjoys swimming, piano performing, and organizing music concerts for her son's preschool in her spare time.

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    Nicole Fuentes - Assistant Vice President, Director of Business Strategy

    Phone: (650) 926-7666
    Email: Nicole.Fuentes@morganstanley.com

    Nicole Fuentes joined Morgan Stanley in October 2000. She holds a Series 7, 66, 9 and 10 license. Prior to joining the Daniels Group, she worked with another Private Wealth team for approximately 15 years, and she was a Business Service Manager on our Silicon Valley Complex management team.

    Nicole lives in Roseville, CA and is originally from San Francisco. Nicole has two grown children and two granddaughters. She is an avid 49ers, Giants and Warriors fan. She is an animal lover and has two dogs, Cha Cha and Frida. She loves cooking, reading, dancing, and spending time at home with her friends and family.

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    Aaron Valadez - Registered Client Service Associate

    Phone: (650) 926-7156
    Email: Aaron.Valadez@morganstanley.com

    Aaron joined Morgan Stanley in 2022. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. During his time at Cal Poly, Aaron was a part of the Financial Management Association which orchestrated networking events with professionals from the industry. He is excited to join Morgan Stanley and the team and work in finance and investments. Aaron focuses on all aspects of customer service needs for our clients.

    Outside of work, he enjoys swimming, playing guitar, and working out.

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    The Daniels Group at Morgan Stanley

    Learn more about how our team can help by visiting our team website below. Start the conversation today through the "Contact Us" button at the top of the page.

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Creating customized financial strategies for the challenges that today’s families face.
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