Jose M Rivera

He is the Senior member of the JMR Wealth Management Group. Jose Rivera is ranked the 15th largest producer at Morgan Stanley. A top-notch baseball player, he wanted to play professionally, and he came close. In 1980, he was invited to try out for the Mets at Shea Stadium, but never got called back. A friend working at Thomson McKinnon encouraged him to apply for the finance industry and he started out on Wall Street making, minimum wage — $2.50 an hour. After several jobs in the securities industry, Rivera took a job as a stockbroker at Dean Witter, which later became Morgan Stanley. Today, he and two other financial advisors manage $630 million in assets for high-net-worth clients, primarily in managed accounts and municipal bonds. Rivera devotes outside time and energy to the Hispanic Federation, which is made up of 90 nonprofit agencies in the New York metropolitan area and aims to increase grant dollars to Latino charities. He also founded the Carl Riccio Special Needs Trust annual golf outing to help support basic care and tuition costs for Carl's family. An outstanding local athlete, Riccio was left quadriplegic by a spine injury.