Personal Wealth Management
Get integrated, tailored advice and planning that grow with your business, including tax optimization, trust and estate planning, and private share lending for liquidity.
As your company grows, decisions about capital, ownership, your employees and your personal wealth become increasingly connected. See how integrated advice, workplace solutions and wealth management can help.
Get integrated, tailored advice and planning that grow with your business, including tax optimization, trust and estate planning, and private share lending for liquidity.
Support your business and your workforce with cash management, equity administration, cap-table capabilities, retirement plans, executive services and related workplace solutions, so you can focus on building.
Evaluate equity or debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, an IPO and other strategic transactions with investment-banking and capital-markets guidance.
Tap into proprietary, industry-leading research and insights on public and private market valuations, growth trends and trade-offs to help inform strategy, capital decisions and planning.
Our integrated capabilities support founders as their businesses grow, evolve and transition.
Expand your network of advisors and potential investors, align your business and personal financial planning, and lock in the competitive employee benefits needed to land top-tier talent.
As you begin your founder journey, your business and personal financial decisions quickly become interconnected. Our integrated teams help you address each one and plan for them together so you can build strategically from the start.
Work with a Morgan Stanley Financial Advisor to establish a strong personal financial foundation that evolves as your company grows. We’ll help you navigate tax‑efficient strategies tied to your business equity—including Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS)—while tackling estate planning, banking and early‑stage liquidity needs for you and your family.
Support your company’s early operational and strategic needs with scalable corporate and workplace solutions. As your team expands, our workplace solutions help streamline cap table management and equity compensation, so you can stay focused on fundraising, hiring and execution.
As your company grows, liquidity decisions become strategic. We offer corporate cash management solutions that help you manage cash, preserve capital and address risk while supporting your company's evolving goals. Our platform includes advisory and self-directed solutions that can adapt as your business scales.
We provide early-stage innovators with access to capital, resources and guidance to help you develop and scale solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Secure liquidity for personal and business priorities, manage concentrated equity and refine employee benefits. Begin planning for future exit options, including trust and estate planning.
As you optimize your business and expand your workforce, your needs and goals evolve. We bring together personal and business liquidity solutions as well as stronger employee offerings to help you plan for your next stage of growth.
As your business scales, your personal wealth needs often become more complex. Our Founders Specialist Financial Advisors can help you manage liquidity and lending needs, address concentrated equity, optimize tax liabilities and develop trust and estate strategies for wealth transfer or philanthropic goals.
As your workforce grows, your benefits strategy plays a larger role in attracting and retaining top talent. Our Outsourced Chief Investment Office and consulting services can help efficiently manage your company’s retirement plan so you can focus on financial decisions and growth opportunities. As you continue to expand your workforce, we offer additional benefits for your employees, including financial wellness and executive benefits.
Growth can bring new capital needs and more complex strategic decisions. Our Investment Management and Investment Banking teams can help you evaluate capital raising, debt or equity financing and transaction advisory services that support your next phase.
Evaluate public and private monetization strategies, establish your succession plan and implement pre-liquidity strategies to manage taxes and transfer wealth as you transition to your next chapter.
When you’re considering potential exit strategies, you’re faced with complex decisions for your business, family, future and legacy. We can support you during significant milestones through monetization strategies, pre-liquidity options, tax optimization, philanthropic goals, succession planning and more, so you feel confident moving into your next phase.
As you prepare for an IPO, merger, acquisition or other transformative event, our Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets teams can help you evaluate market conditions, consider capital-raising alternatives and structure transactions that balance the needs of your company, employees and investors.
We also coordinate advice and execution across public and private equity and debt, with Directed Share Program planning to help key stakeholders participate in your offering.
A sale, merger or IPO is a defining milestone for you, your business and your employees. We help you plan for the operational and financial demands that come with that transition, from private-share lending to public stock plan administration and audit-ready reporting.
For executives navigating public-market regulations, our executive financial services include 10b5-1 trading plans, Rule 144 form filing and tax mitigation strategies.
As your company grows, your equity stake may become a significant part of your personal wealth. Our Financial Advisors can help you diversify concentrated equity positions, evaluate lending and liquidity options, before and after lockup periods, and plan for trust, estate, and Family Office needs.
We can also help you think through strategies to preserve and transfer wealth across generations.
Building a company can reshape your wealth, your priorities and your future all at once. Our Founders Specialist Financial Advisors understand the personal and professional decisions that come with ownership, liquidity, equity compensation and growth. While you focus on building the business, we help you secure your financial interests.
The ability to anticipate your needs as you navigate every stage of your company’s evolution and your personal wealth journey, offering guidance and solutions to help manage the intersection of the two.
Insights into the distinctive financial position of founders, including an understanding of the monetary and emotional value of your company stock holdings, plus tailored recommendations for your portfolio.
Connect to relevant capabilities across capital-raising and cash-flow management, stock plan administration, liquidity strategies and more.
We offer unparalleled client service to support you and your vision with customized solutions and personalized service—all delivered in a secure, digitally sophisticated environment.
Connect with a dedicated Morgan Stanley team to discuss your personal and business wealth planning, capital raising and workplace solutions needs.
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