Missy Garapedian is a Financial Advisor with Merrill in Westlake Village. Missy provides tailored advice and guidance to individuals, families, and businesses, helping them discern what they want to accomplish with their wealth and engaging deeply with their priorities. A skilled problem solver, she enjoys resolving complex needs and streamlining multiple facets of a client’s financial framework. Clients look to Missy to serve as a steady and reliable part of their lives, whether providing new ideas and insights, uncovering possible efficiencies on both sides of the balance sheet, or educating the next generation to advance sound stewardship. Missy, in turn, welcomes the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on client well-being, demonstrating her commitment through her work ethic and responsiveness.
Missy begins each relationship by learning more about each client’s objectives, from near-term goals to long-term aspirations. An attentive listener, she places a client’s interests at the center of her work, pinpointing relevant capabilities, enterprise wide. An experienced Advisor, Missy offers the knowledge she has gained from serving an accomplished clientele, providing them with forwarding-thinking strategies, timely research, and best practices. She looks to advance client priorities through an integrated approach to multiple wealth disciplines: portfolio design, liability and risk assessment, long-term strategy, trust and estate planning services, and access to banking and lending capabilities through Bank of America.
Missy joined Merrill in 2021. Previously, she served as a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley, where she gained extensive insight into the wealth management needs of wealth creators and multi-generational families. Her career also includes tenures as a Technical Recruiter for a Fortune 500 Company and an Account Executive for a marketing and lifestyle brand.
Missy earned her B.A. in Psychology from Pepperdine University. Fascinated by behavioral finance, she strives to support clients in making more effective decisions by incorporating its findings into her approach.
A native of L.A., Missy enjoys living in her home city. In her free time, she likes to golf, salsa dance, and do acrobatic yoga.
My mission, first and foremost, is to understand you and what matters most to you. To take the time to ask smart questions and listen carefully, then understand in detail, exactly where your finances stand today and where you'd like them to be tomorrow. I then help you design and bring to life a customized financial strategy that can help you and your family pursue personal financial goals while helping to manage strategic investment risk. My approach is about creating comprehensive strategies to that can help turn your goals into reality.
Bringing fresh perspectives to your financial life
The financial decisions you make today can help determine the future you build for yourself and your family. Carving a clear path forward starts with connecting your life and finances. A Merrill advisor provides access to the investing insights of Merrill and banking capabilities of Bank of America to help you make informed decisions as you pursue your goals.
