Marina Linton is a Vice President and Financial Advisor with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in Las Vegas. Marina provides advanced planning, tailored strategies and guidance to clients, helping them gain efficiency and control over their financial future. With more than two decades of experience in financial services, she offers robust industry knowledge and responsive, personalized service, intent on creating a meaningful impact on what matters most to clients.People with multiple demands on their time and a quest to pursue specific financial goals seek Marina’s assistance. Whether business owners, C-suite professionals or families, Marina helps to distill their circumstances, weigh their options and lead coordinated efforts across the members of the firm. She also provides access to banking and lending services through Bank of America and can work in concert with a client’s trusted team of accountants and attorneys. A resolute problem-solver, Marina is skilled in multiple areas: helping clients unwind the complexities of significant wealth, addressing tax-sensitive investing, tackling a wide range of business or retirement needs and supporting clients in their education and evolution. Marina relocated to Las Vegas from the Midwest and serves clients in multiple states. Client referrals are her primary source of new relationships, and she strives to deserve that trust by active listening, relating to clients’ diverse backgrounds and creating strategies that dynamically align with the trajectory of clients’ lives. With multiple generations of doctors in her family and experience building her own business, Marina prides herself on catering to the financial needs of the medical community. Prior to joining Merrill in 2022, Marina gained a wide breadth of advisory, banking and consulting experience through her previous tenures with Fidelity Investments, Discover Financial Services, Deloitte, and Cambridge Lending Group – a home-financing and real estate group that she co-founded and led. A lifelong learner, Marina is passionate about bringing forward-thinking ideas and a refined echelon of strategy to every client engagement. She earned her M.B.A. in Finance with a concentration in Accounting from DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business and her B.B.A. in Finance from the Lubar College of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Marina has also completed the Lean Six Sigma Executive Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Marina and her husband Leon have two sons, Greg and Max, who are in school on the East Coast. In her free time, Marina loves to play tennis, hike at Red Rock Canyon or Mount Charleston, and entertain. In addition, she and her family enjoy traveling and downhill skiing when her sons are home on break.I follow the deep-seated Merrill tradition of participating in the communities we serve. This drives my interest in spending time volunteering with organizations in our community.
My mission, first and foremost, is to understand you and what matters most to you. Armed with that information I can ask thoughtful questions -- listening carefully, then understanding in detail where your wealth stands today and where you'd like it to be tomorrow. I help you design and implement a personalized plan intended to help you and your family pursue financial goals while helping manage investment risk. My approach is to focus on potential solutions that can help turn 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.