Morgan Stanley has appointed Jed Finn as head of its $4.8 trillion wealth management business. At 45 years old, Finn is a close associate of co-president Andy Saperstein and has been with the company since 2011. This move is part of Saperstein’s recent revamp of his leadership team for the investment bank’s money management divisions.
In addition to Finn’s appointment, Jacques Chappuis and Ben Huneke will become co-heads of investment management. Both Chappuis and Huneke will report to Saperstein, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg News.
As part of the executive shuffle that saw Ted Pick appointed as Morgan Stanley’s next chief executive, Saperstein was given oversight of both wealth and investment management. Those two divisions have grown significantly over the past decade and produced roughly 57% of the firm’s revenue in the first nine months of this year. They manage a total of $6.2 trillion in client assets.
Finn has held several leadership roles in past 12 years. A dual citizen of Canada and the U.S., he majored in economics and computer science at McGill University in Montreal. He previously worked at McKinsey & Co., where he helped integrate the Smith Barney brokerage business that Morgan Stanley purchased from Citigroup Inc. More recently, Finn and Saperstein sealed a deal to buy Solium Capital, a software venture that manages employee stock options