Lewis Albert Metzger | Financial Professional | Houston, Texas

Professional summary

Lewis Albert Metzger is a registered financial advisor currently at MORGAN STANLEY located in Houston, Texas.

Lewis is registered as an IAR (Investment Advisor Representative) and RR (Registered Representative) and started their career in finance in 1980. Lewis has worked at 5 firms and has passed the Series 65, Series 63, SIE, Series 15, Series 5 and Series 7 exams.

Biography

Lewis A. Metzger, Managing Director, Wealth Management heads The Metzger Group at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Metzger and his team work with a limited number of individuals and their families aiming to provide the finest personalized family wealth management services available including access to our private banking group, asset management, and estate and financial planning strategies. Mr. Metzger holds various titles including Family Wealth Director, Financial Advisor, Senior Portfolio Management Director and Senior Investment Management Consultant of Morgan Stanley.

Awards
• 2018, 2019 and 2020 Forbes, America’s Best-in-State Wealth Advisors
• 2014 – 2020 Barron’s, America’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors
• 2009 – 2013 Barron’s, America’s Top 1,000 Financial Advisors
• 2012 – 2018 Texas Monthly “FIVE STAR: Wealth Manager” award
• 2013 and 2014 Financial Times, Top 400 Advisors

Mr. Metzger is among the select few financial advisors recognized with the designation of Family Wealth Director, which demonstrates that he successfully completed a rigorous program that trains advisors on delivering the highest possible standards of experience and extensive range of knowledge in wealth planning and investment advice to the most affluent valued clients.

Morgan Stanley and its predecessor firms have recognized him for outstanding professionalism and performance by his membership in the prestigious Morgan Stanley Chairman’s Club from 1990 – present day.

Mr. Metzger received a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from The University of Alabama. He also graduated from The University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Commerce & Business Administration. A proponent of education, he serves on several community boards including The University of Alabama President’s Cabinet and has served on the boards of the Spring Branch School District Education Foundation and the St. Francis Episcopal Day School. An avid sportsman and conservationist, he holds life memberships with the Houston Safari Club, Safari Club International and the Coastal Conservation Association. He is very active in animal conservation efforts in Africa. He financed and his family participated in the largest relocation of African giraffes ever attempted and successfully completed. He also owns and operates the Wolf Springs Ranch, located in Round Top, Texas.

Mr. Metzger grew up in Mobile, Alabama. With the help of his father, he purchased his first NYSE stock at the age of 12. For the past 40 years, he has lived in Houston, Texas. He is married to Peggy; they have two grown children, a son-in-law and one grandson.

Question & Answer

What are your service offerings?

Loans/credit services

Trading individual securities

Financial planning

Trust & estate planning

Philanthropic services

Retirement planning

What is your current number of clients?

Greater than 100

What is your minimum asset requirement?

1M

Are you a "fiduciary"?

Yes

Aliases

None

Other business activities

Outside business activity is any business or activity undertaken by an advisor that is outside the scope of their relationship with their firm (e.g., consulting services, real estate, freelance work, teaching, etc.). Investors should stay informed about these activities to ensure no conflicts of interest.

*363864- Ivan Carter Wildlife Conservation Alliance (Ivan Carter WCA); Investment related: No; San Antonion, Texas; Animals; Board Member, President (proprietor, partner, officer, director, employee, trustee, agent); 03/2019; During business hours: 1; After business hours: 0; Administrative, Fundraising, Marketing 2) Wolf Springs Ranch LLC; Not investment related; Houston, TX; Ranching; 11/2009; During business hours: 1; After business hours: 10

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CRS (Client Relationship Summary) - RIA

MORGAN STANLEY - Registered Investment Advisory firm

Version Date: Sun Jan 01 2023

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley,” “we,” or “us”) is registered as a broker-dealer and an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Brokerage and investment advisory services and fees differ, so it is important for retail investors to understand the differences. We are also a member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which is more fully described at https://www.sipc.org. To assist in researching firms and financial professionals, free and simple tools are available at https://www.Investor.gov/CRS, which also provides educational materials about broker-dealers, investment advisers and investing.

Types of Services Offered:

Depending on your financial needs and investment objectives, Morgan Stanley assists retail investors with brokerage services, investment advisory services or both. In addition, through our E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley platform, beginning in early 2023, we will offer accounts where you can direct your own investments. Below outlines the differences between brokerage and investment advisory accounts, their costs, the services we provide and our obligations to you. Please carefully review and understand these differences to help decide which services and accounts are right for you.

Investment Advisory Accounts and Services

Our investment advisory programs and services include discretionary portfolio management, nondiscretionary advice on investments in securities, comprehensive financial planning and advice on the selection of professional investment managers. We offer wrap fee programs, which give you the ability to choose Morgan Stanley, your FA, a third party or affiliated investment manager to make investment decisions on your behalf—this is called “discretion.” In our nondiscretionary programs, you can make investment decisions based on your ideas or those we provide to you. We act as your investment adviser only when we have entered into a written agreement with you that describes our advisory relationship and our obligations to you. You will also receive an ADV Brochure, which provides more details about the advisory program and/or service(s) you have selected.

NOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS: This information is required by law and is not a promotion of Morgan Stanley’s products and services. Further, not all products and services are available to all non-U.S. residents. All Accounts: More detailed information can be found in the following documents: Important Account Information for Full-Service Accounts booklet at http://www.morganstanley.com/iai; Important Account Information for Self-Directed Accounts booklet at http://www.etrade.com/iai; (collectively, the “IAIs”); and Investment Advisory ADV Brochures at http://www.morganstanley.com/adv.

Monitoring

We monitor your investment advisory account. The level, type and frequency of monitoring depend upon the program and services you select.

Limited Investment Offerings

In both brokerage and investment advisory accounts, we offer a wide variety of products and services but limit the products available to you based upon factors such as account type and client eligibility requirements.

Full-Service Accounts: Only products approved by a Morgan Stanley product committee can be purchased. We generally do not offer products unless the product provider has entered into an agreement with us and, in most cases, agrees to make payments to us, including payments of revenue share. In brokerage accounts, we keep this revenue; in investment advisory accounts, when this revenue is collected, it is refunded to impacted clients as further described in the applicable ADV Brochure.

Self-Directed Accounts: We offer a variety of products, many of which pay us revenue share, but these payments are not required for the products to be offered by Morgan Stanley. Investment Advisory Accounts: Certain investment advisory account programs limit the investment products available. In addition, products are available in certain investment advisory programs only if approved by our Global Investment Manager Analysis (“GIMA”) group.

All Accounts: The Morgan Stanley Bank Deposit Program (“BDP”) will be your default sweep vehicle for end-of-day cash held in brokerage and/or investment advisory accounts, unless you are not eligible. We and our bank affiliates derive financial benefits from those deposits. You can instruct us to invest that cash in an investment product other than BDP. For more information on the BDP, please visit https://www.morganstanley.com/wealth-investmentstrategies/pdf/BDP_ disclosure.pdf. For Self-Directed Account clients designated as pattern day traders, their free credit balances will remain at the broker-dealer instead of sweeping to BDP.

Account Minimums and Other Requirements

Depending on the program you select, account minimums range from $500 to $5 million.

Additional Information

For more information about the accounts and services we offer, see the applicable IAI booklet, including the Understanding Your Brokerage and Investment Advisory Relationships section. To access the ADV Brochure for each investment advisory program, visit http://www.morganstanley.com/adv. See ADV Item 5 for account minimums.

Questions to ask your Professional:

Given my financial situation, should I choose an investment advisory service? Should I choose a brokerage service? Should I choose both types of services? Why or why not?
How will you choose investments to recommend to me?
What is your relevant experience, including your licenses, education and other qualifications? What do these qualifications mean?

Fees and Costs:

Principal Fees and Costs

Generally, investment advisory accounts are charged a monthly fee that is a percentage of the total dollar amount of assets in your account. As a general matter, the more assets in your investment advisory account, the higher the fee you will pay. This means we have an incentive to encourage you to increase the assets in your investment advisory account. If you open an account in one of our wrap fee programs, the advisory fee includes payment for our investment advisory services, trade execution, custody of securities at Morgan Stanley and compensation to your FA. Certain programs also charge additional fees for other services and platform maintenance. Additionally, if you grant discretion over your assets to a third party or affiliated investment manager, you will be charged an additional advisory fee for their services. Finally, you may be charged additional costs if that investment manager decides to execute your transactions with a third-party broker-dealer instead of with us.

Other Fees and Costs

In both brokerage and investment advisory accounts, in addition to the fees that you pay to Morgan Stanley and the thirdparty fees that are referenced above, certain investment products contain built-in fees and expenses as described in that product’s offering material. Note, if your account is a margin account and you have an outstanding balance, you will pay margin interest.

Additional Information

You will pay fees and costs whether you make or lose money on your investments. Fees and costs will reduce the amount of money you make on your investments over time. Please make sure you understand what fees and costs you are paying. See the Your Account and Service Fees, How Morgan Stanley Is Compensated or the Margin section of the applicable IAI Booklet for more detail. For specific information about the fees and costs charged in your investment advisory account, please refer to Items 5A, B, C and D in the applicable program’s ADV Brochure.

Questions to ask your Professional:

Help me understand how these fees and costs might affect my investments. If I give you $10,000 to invest, how much will go to fees and costs, and how much will be invested for me?

Conflicts of Interest:

Our broker-dealer obligations described below only apply to Retail Customers as defined by the SEC. A Retail Customer is a natural person, or the legal representative of such natural person, who (A) receives a recommendation of any securities transaction or investment strategy involving securities from a broker, dealer, or a natural person who is an associated person of a broker or dealer; and (B) uses the recommendation primarily for personal, family or household purposes. In addition, our legal obligations and standard of conduct may vary under state laws or regulations, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or “ERISA,” and any professional conduct standards, as applicable.

When we provide you with a recommendation as your broker-dealer or act as your investment adviser, we have to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours. At the same time, the way we make money creates some conflicts with your interests. You should understand and ask us about these conflicts because they can affect the recommendations and investment advice we provide you. Here are some examples to help you understand what this means. The following examples create conflicts of interest or an incentive for us to recommend and promote certain products over other products in addition to promoting certain types or levels of trading activity:

Proprietary Products: Proprietary products are investments that are issued, sponsored or managed by us or our affiliates. We offer proprietary products in both brokerage and investment advisory accounts. When you purchase a proprietary product, we earn more money as a result of the compensation paid to us or our affiliates.

Third-Party Payments: Many third parties pay us compensation when you purchase certain investment products, such as fees that can cover costs of marketing, selling and servicing mutual fund shares.

Revenue Sharing: Many third parties, such as mutual fund sponsors, share revenue with us that they receive when you purchase an investment product.

Principal Trading: Where permitted by law, we may sell you certain products from our own or our affiliates’ inventory, and we or an affiliate may buy certain products from you and place them in our inventory. In such instances, we or our affiliate will earn more money as a result of such sale or purchase than we would if we acted as your agent.

Payment for Order Flow: We earn compensation for routing certain trade orders to third-party market centers, subject to our applicable best execution obligations. For more detail, see the Payment for Order Flow and Other Routing Arrangements section of the applicable IAI booklet.

For more information about our conflicts of interest, please review the Conflicts of Interest and Other Information section of the applicable IAI or Item 6B of the applicable ADV brochure.

Questions to ask your Professional:

How might your conflicts of interest affect me, and how will you address them?

How do your financial professionals make money?

For Full-Service Accounts, your FA’s compensation is based primarily on the fees and commissions that you pay us, as well as additional factors such as their tenure with Morgan Stanley, the amount of assets you have with us, the time and complexity required to meet your needs, the products you invest in or services you receive (which could vary in terms of compensation), and any loans made to you by Morgan Stanley. Subject to Morgan Stanley-imposed limits, your FA may also receive noncash compensation, such as reimbursement for education and training paid for by third-party product providers. This compensation structure presents a conflict of interest and means that FAs have an incentive to recommend transactions that generate higher amounts of revenue or products associated with providers that provide noncash compensation. Other employees receive compensation for referring clients (including Self-Directed Account clients) and prospective clients to FAs who recommend additional products and services.

CRS (Client Relationship Summary) - BD

MORGAN STANLEY - Broker-Dealer Firm

Version Date: Sun Jan 01 2023

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley,” “we,” or “us”) is registered as a broker-dealer and an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Brokerage and investment advisory services and fees differ, so it is important for retail investors to understand the differences. We are also a member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which is more fully described at https://www.sipc.org. To assist in researching firms and financial professionals, free and simple tools are available at https://www.Investor.gov/CRS, which also provides educational materials about broker-dealers, investment advisers and investing.

Types of Services Offered:

Depending on your financial needs and investment objectives, Morgan Stanley assists retail investors with brokerage services, investment advisory services or both. In addition, through our E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley platform, beginning in early 2023, we will offer accounts where you can direct your own investments. Below outlines the differences between brokerage and investment advisory accounts, their costs, the services we provide and our obligations to you. Please carefully review and understand these differences to help decide which services and accounts are right for you.

Brokerage Accounts and Services

Our brokerage accounts allow for the purchase and sale of securities, trading options, margin lending (the ability to borrow against your securities) and various cash management services, including direct deposit, check-writing, ATM/debit cards and electronic funds transfer. We offer two primary types of brokerage accounts:

Full-Service Accounts: Accounts are serviced by one or more Financial Advisors (“FAs”). Trades are executed based on your instructions. While FAs may make recommendations, you make all investment decisions. We generally do not have the ability to independently make investment decisions on your behalf—doing so is called “discretion.” Additional tools and services may be available.
Self-Directed Accounts: Accounts are offered through our E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley platform. You make all investment decisions. Trades are executed based solely on your instructions, without recommendations from us.

NOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS: This information is required by law and is not a promotion of Morgan Stanley’s products and services. Further, not all products and services are available to all non-U.S. residents. All Accounts: More detailed information can be found in the following documents: Important Account Information for Full-Service Accounts booklet at http://www.morganstanley.com/iai; Important Account Information for Self-Directed Accounts booklet at http://www.etrade.com/iai; (collectively, the “IAIs”); and Investment Advisory ADV Brochures at http://www.morganstanley.com/adv.

Monitoring

We do not provide monitoring services for brokerage accounts. However, for Full-Service Accounts, your FA may periodically review your account for purposes of making a buy, sell or hold recommendation.

Limited Investment Offerings

In both brokerage and investment advisory accounts, we offer a wide variety of products and services but limit the products available to you based upon factors such as account type and client eligibility requirements.

Full-Service Accounts: Only products approved by a Morgan Stanley product committee can be purchased. We generally do not offer products unless the product provider has entered into an agreement with us and, in most cases, agrees to make payments to us, including payments of revenue share. In brokerage accounts, we keep this revenue; in investment advisory accounts, when this revenue is collected, it is refunded to impacted clients as further described in the applicable ADV Brochure.

Self-Directed Accounts: We offer a variety of products, many of which pay us revenue share, but these payments are not required for the products to be offered by Morgan Stanley. Investment Advisory Accounts: Certain investment advisory account programs limit the investment products available. In addition, products are available in certain investment advisory programs only if approved by our Global Investment Manager Analysis (“GIMA”) group.

All Accounts: The Morgan Stanley Bank Deposit Program (“BDP”) will be your default sweep vehicle for end-of-day cash held in brokerage and/or investment advisory accounts, unless you are not eligible. We and our bank affiliates derive financial benefits from those deposits. You can instruct us to invest that cash in an investment product other than BDP. For more information on the BDP, please visit https://www.morganstanley.com/wealth-investmentstrategies/pdf/BDP_ disclosure.pdf. For Self-Directed Account clients designated as pattern day traders, their free credit balances will remain at the broker-dealer instead of sweeping to BDP.

Account Minimums and Other Requirements

There are no initial account minimums. However, you will need to meet certain minimum account balance requirements in order to avoid certain fees and account closure.

Additional Information

For more information about the accounts and services we offer, see the applicable IAI booklet, including the Understanding Your Brokerage and Investment Advisory Relationships section. To access the ADV Brochure for each investment advisory program, visit http://www.morganstanley.com/adv. See ADV Item 5 for account minimums.

Questions to ask your Professional:

Given my financial situation, should I choose an investment advisory service? Should I choose a brokerage service? Should I choose both types of services? Why or why not?
How will you choose investments to recommend to me?
What is your relevant experience, including your licenses, education and other qualifications? What do these qualifications mean?

Fees and Costs:

Principal Fees and Costs

Full-Service Accounts: You generally pay a commission or markup/markdown (a fee added to or subtracted from the market price) each time you make a trade. You will be charged more when there are more trades in your Full-Service Account; therefore, we have an incentive to encourage you to trade more often.
Self-Directed Accounts: We will generally not charge you a commission to buy or sell U.S. listed stocks, options (contract fee applies) or ETFs. There are some exceptions where a commission or markup will be charged.
All Accounts: Because we charge per transaction, we have an incentive to encourage you to trade more often. For more information on how these fees apply, please refer to the applicable IAI booklet, specifically, the sections titled How Morgan Stanley is Compensated, and Your Account and Service Fees.

Other Fees and Costs

In both brokerage and investment advisory accounts, in addition to the fees that you pay to Morgan Stanley and the thirdparty fees that are referenced above, certain investment products contain built-in fees and expenses as described in that product’s offering material. Note, if your account is a margin account and you have an outstanding balance, you will pay margin interest.

Additional Information

You will pay fees and costs whether you make or lose money on your investments. Fees and costs will reduce the amount of money you make on your investments over time. Please make sure you understand what fees and costs you are paying. See the Your Account and Service Fees, How Morgan Stanley Is Compensated or the Margin section of the applicable IAI Booklet for more detail. For specific information about the fees and costs charged in your investment advisory account, please refer to Items 5A, B, C and D in the applicable program’s ADV Brochure.

Questions to ask your Professional:

Help me understand how these fees and costs might affect my investments. If I give you $10,000 to invest, how much will go to fees and costs, and how much will be invested for me?