Mario N Milelli, CRPC

Vice President
Senior Financial Advisor
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Merrill Lynch
Wealth Management

Mario provides investment advice and guidance to high net worth private investors, business owners and Fortune 500 corporate executives. He has worked with and advised professional athletes, coaches and their families.

Profile

Mario N. Milelli, Vice President and Senior Financial Advisor for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management is a qualified Portfolio Manager who, in addition to providing traditional advice and guidance, can help clients pursue their objectives by building and managing their own personalized or defined strategies, which may incorporate individual stocks and bonds, Merrill model portfolios, and third-party investment strategies. When servicing clients through the firm’s Investment Advisory Program, a Portfolio Manager may manage strategies on a discretionary basis. Mario has also earned the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor designation from the College for Financial Planning Institutes Corp.

Mario’s role as a client’s essential advisor is to listen and clarify issues that matter most. It’s this careful attention to client goals and aspirations that allows him to build long term successful relationships. With more than 30 years of investment experience with Wall Street's premier financial services firms, Mario has earned the trust of long standing and loyal clients while maintaining a reputation for the highest level of honesty and integrity.

In addition to portfolio management, Mario offers services that focuses on options, alternative investments, exchange funds, concentrated equity management and tax minimization strategies. Critical to this process, is helping clients understand their true tolerance for risk, which according to Mario, is paramount to a client’s long term investment success. By coordinating teams of internal Merrill specialists to work with clients’ other trusted advisors: CPA’s; Estate/Trust attorneys/Lending Officers, Mario can customize a highly tailored financial strategy that seeks to create, grow, preserve, and transfer a client’s estate while providing lifetime income. Having experience with both traditional and non-traditional forms of lending, such as lending against restricted or concentrated stock positions to lending towards a real estate purchase, or establishing letters of credit (LOC), Mario provides guidance to help meet a client’s home financing and liquidity needs.

Mario is a graduate from The Pennsylvania State University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance. He resides in Denville, New Jersey with his wife and two daughters. He’s an avid soccer player and enjoys coaching his daughter’s teams. Mario volunteers for various community organizations in the Metropolitan area.

Disclosure:
Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Before engaging in the purchase or sale of options, investors should understand the nature of and extent of their rights and obligations and be aware of the risks involved in investing with options. Prior to buying or selling an option, clients must receive the options disclosure document Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options. This document is available by contacting your Merrill Lynch Financial Advisor.
Merrill, its affiliates, and financial advisors do not provide legal, tax, or accounting advice. You should consult your legal and/or tax advisors before making any financial decisions.
*Some or all alternative investment programs may not be in the best interest of certain investors. No assurance can be given that any alternative investment’s investment objectives will be achieved.
NMLS # - 799004 

  • LANGUAGES

    English, Italian & Spanish

  • EDUCATION

    Pennsylvania State University System

    University of Maine System

Professional Staff

Supported by the global resources of Merrill, my team is comprised of talented and experienced individuals committed to building strong client relationships based on trust and personalized service.

Additional Resources

The following specialists do not make securities recommendations. Please contact your Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Advisor if you have questions about how a specialist might be able to assist you.

Tricia Kropp

Wealth Strategist

Merrill

Robert Jarvis

Investment Solutions Group Portfolio Strategist

Bank of America, N.A.

Michael K Costo

Retirement Specialist

Bank of America, N.A.

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Understanding Your Life

Approach

Every relationship begins with a conversation, helping you identify and prioritize which goals matter most to you. Whether it's transferring wealth to the next generation, customizing your financial approach to help you pursue your passions, or providing advice and guidance to help you stay informed, I start by listening to learn more about you and your family.

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Focus On Individuals, Families and Small Businesses

I believe that financial success can be achieved when you’re able to make investment-related decisions and trade-offs that can help you reach personally meaningful goals. Whether you’re planning your retirement, saving to buy a home or funding a child’s education, the process begins by getting to know you and how you feel about the following:

  • Health: Managing healthcare expenses, now and in the future
  • Home: Upsizing, downsizing, remodeling or buying a vacation home
  • Family: Taking care of your family and other people in your life
  • Leisure: Spending your free time in meaningful ways
  • Giving: Volunteering, mentoring others and giving to charities
  • Work: Working in retirement, selling or starting a business
  • Finance: Bringing it all together and defining your financial goals

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Drawing upon research in the field of behavioral finance, Merrill developed the Investment Personality Assessment to help us get to know you better as an investor and potentially help you refine your own investing preferences. By gaining a deeper understanding of how you think and feel about investing through this assessment, we can customize the financial approach we develop together to help you pursue what matters most to you. Our Investment Personality Assessment is one of the ways to help us get to know you - to understand your goals and priorities. These questions will help us provide you with additional insights and resources.

Understanding your goals and priorities

Your life and goals change. We have tools to help you keep track of these changes so they can be reflected in your financial approach.

Philosophy

I believe the best financial approach is the one that helps you pursue your goals. That's why, from the start, we talk about your aspirations and encourage you to ask questions about issues that matter most to you. Calculating how to manage future health care expenses? College on the horizon? Considering the sale of a business or purchase of a home? Preparing to pass your wealth to future generations? It all starts with a plan intended to help you manage, grow, and preserve your wealth today, while also considering the impact it can have for years to come. With access to the investment insights of Merrill and banking solutions from Bank of America, I will work with you to develop an approach designed to help address your financial needs.

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My mission is to understand you and what matters most to you. To take the time to ask smart questions and listen carefully, then to understand, in great detail, exactly where you stand today, and where you’d like to be tomorrow. I will work with you to design and braing to life a comprehensive financial strategy that can help you and your family pursue personal financial goals while helping manage investment risk.

Staying on Track

We understand that both your life and the financial markets can change over time. By checking in to discuss changes in your life and revisiting your financial approach, our goal is to help you stay on track to achieve what's most important to you.



Reviews to help you
stay on track

We’ll meet with you to review your goals and the progress you’ve made toward reaching them. We’ll also discuss any adjustments needed to your financial approach to help you stay on course.



    Changes in your life
    and to your goals

    Your life and goals change. As these changes occur, we can update your approach to reflect them.

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