Description: Taxes can make a big difference over the long run in helping meet financial goals – so you need a tax-smart edge. Learn how Morgan Stanley Tax Management Services can help efficiently manage your capital gains with a complimentary and fully personalized experience.
Meeting financial goals takes a combination of planning and an inventive edge. There is no one winning strategy. The best strategy may be a combination that’s constructed just for you. And at Morgan Stanley, we can build that together.
But there’s one component that is often overlooked—even though it can make the biggest difference over the long run: taxes.
Taken together, tax-aware solutions, may potentially add up to 2% to your annual returns, on average, depending on your specific portfolios and approaches.
On screen disclosure: Hypothetical Growth of $1MM Over 20 Years. Source: Morgan Stanley GIC Special Report, “Preparing for the Next Tax Regime: Six Steps to a More Tax-Efficient Portfolio” November 2024. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Intended results may noy be achieved.
By adding our complimentary -- and personalized -- Tax Management investment platform to your taxable managed account, we can help maximize your potential after-tax return, year-round. That’s our Total Tax 365 approach.
Do you want to be more in control of your capital gains each year? Our platform enables you to set gain or tax limits that put you in control of the impact of taxes on your investments. Because after all, taxes are personal.
While tax-loss harvesting is common for many investors these days, it tends to be labor intensive. Morgan Stanley’s advanced platform lets you design your own tax-loss harvesting experience.
For instance, you can select the loss harvesting frequency, your loss targeting approach or customize our opportunistic tax-loss harvest feature that systematically identifies losses to capture throughout the year.
And when losses are created, we look to preserve those losses by adhering to certain IRS wash sale rules so that those realized losses can help potentially offset future gains.
In today’s market, every trade decision matters. But how you tax-optimize your trades may matter even more.
That’s why we also provide our best-tax-outcome approach when trading your securities. This feature looks through your various tax lots and attempts to achieve the most favorable tax outcome on every sale transaction.
Lastly, if you are considering transitioning assets to Morgan Stanley, but are concerned about large capital gains and subsequent taxes, don’t be.
Our sophisticated platform helps you unwind existing positions into a new diversified investment portfolio gradually, and on your terms.
And every step of the way, we report back results that show how much tax savings you may have captured over time. Because the returns you keep are the ones that count.
So, when working to meet your financial goals, you set the rules. Together, we’ll refine your strategy … and offer the tax-smart edge that puts you in control of your assets and your wealth.
Contact your Morgan Stanley Financial Advisor and ask how to enroll in this complimentary service.
Clients may elect Tax Management Services for the account by notifying their Financial Advisor, and indicate what Maximum Tax or Realized Capital Gain Instruction is desired for the account, if any. The Tax Management Services Terms and Conditions attached to the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC Select UMA ADV brochure as Exhibit A will govern Tax Management Services in the account. Review the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC Select UMA ADV brochure carefully with your tax advisor. Tax Management Services are not available for all accounts or clients and may adversely impact account performance. Tax Management Services do not constitute tax advice or a complete tax-sensitive investment management program. There is no guarantee that Tax Management Services will produce the desired tax results.
Diversification is no guarantee of profit and does not protect against loss.
There is no guarantee that tax-loss harvesting will achieve any particular tax result.
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