Questions Fiduciaries Should Be Asking (and Some Answers)Questions Fiduciaries Should Be Asking (and Some Answers)

Edward Finley is a Managing Director and Private Client Advisor with U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, in New York. Ed leads the design and development of tailored financial strategies for a select group of families, endowments, and foundations. He orchestrates thoughtful initiatives in investment management, trust and estate planning services, wealth strategy, family office services, banking, and philanthropy, integrating the insights and experience of a team of in-house specialists. As the lead relationship manager, Ed works closely with clients to facilitate informed decision-making and active stewardship of wealth.

Ed has worked in wealth management since 1991. Prior to joining U.S. Trust, Ed spent thirteen years with J.P. Morgan Private Bank in New York, where he was a Managing Director and Senior Banker consulting to high net worth families, closely held businesses, charitable foundations and non-governmental organizations. He began his career practicing law with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, and Kirkland & Ellis, where he focused on domestic and international trust and estate planning services. His career also includes a tenure with Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP, where he advised families on wealth strategy and estate administration.

Ed is an adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce, where he teaches the advanced quantitative finance seminar in investment management. He is a frequent lecturer and author on wealth management issues and serves on the editorial board of Trusts & Estates  magazine.

Ed earned his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his J.D. from the University of Chicago.* He lives in New York City with his husband and two children.

*In his role at U.S. Trust, Ed does not provide legal advice.

In his 30 year career, Andy Parker has acquired significant experience in various areas of financial services and he joined the Archetype team to fulfill three very specific goals.

“First, I wanted to work with people that I trust and respect.   Second, while I want to be able to add value, I also want to be in a firm where I can keep learning.   Lastly, I want to ‘do the right thing’ for our clients.”

Andy’s most recent experience was as a founding member and Chief Portfolio Strategist at Lazard Wealth Management where he participated in overall investment strategy and asset allocation, determined portfolio construction and risk management of client portfolios and authored monthly investment strategy thought leadership pieces.  

Andy’s innate ability to understand complex financial and investment concepts enables him to explain them to his Archetype clients in terms that are easy to understand.  “Given the complex investment algorithms that underlay much of Archetype's investment strategy, it is extremely important that we are able to get clients to grasp what we're doing and why it's important for their financial future.” 

Early in his career, Andy served as Senior Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert in their Institutional Financial Futures Group where he led a team that developed a static, option-based portfolio hedging algorithm that was successfully implemented for their clients in the 1987 equity market decline and remains in use today.

Andy not only can communicate the complexities of investment strategy to clients, but he also brings an innovative approach to financial planning.  “Each client has specific goals and needs and our business is to craft individual plans.”  

Gregory D. Singer is an asset allocation and wealth planning specialist at Capital Group Private Client Services. Prior to joining Capital Group in 2012, Greg was a senior managing director with AllianceBernstein serving in wealth planning, investment and marketing roles. Previously, he was a director for the Pepsi-Cola Company, where he held positions in finance, strategy and marketing. He has also served as the lead strategist for a subsidiary of The Limited and as an M&A analyst for Lehman Brothers. Singer concurrently earned a BS in finance and a BAS in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, and he holds an MBA in finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He has published extensively in industry press and academic journals and has been cited in numerous periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He is also a member of the investments editorial board for Trusts & Estates magazine. Greg is based in New York.

Miguel Ferreyra de Bone is head of business development at Acrux Partners in New York City.