Brock Renner
Managing Director, Private Wealth Management, Private Wealth Advisor, Portfolio Management Director, Alternative Investments Director
Drawing on over two decades of diverse financial markets experience, Brock Renner leads the team’s advice across investments, lending and family office resources for the private wealth management segment of the team. Taking a holistic approach to wealth management, Brock and his team strive to create and implement comprehensive strategies that address many aspects of their clients’ lives.
Brock began his wealth management career at Goldman Sachs in 2004. In 2009, he moved to J.P. Morgan Securities to build his practice and ultimately serve as National Chairman of the Family Office Council as well Managing Director of J.P. Morgan. Brock also served as National Co-lead of the J.P. Morgan Securities Technology and Innovation Counsel. Previously, Brock practiced law at two Chicago law firms, specializing in securities and financial instruments. He joined Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in 2021.
Brock graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received a B.A. in philosophy and political science, and went on to earn a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois School of Law. He is the founder of KIPPster Connections, a mentoring and fundraising program connecting area professionals with students at Chicago charter schools, and has served as Vice Chairman of the KIPP Ascend Board, on the Board of Trustees of Old St. Patrick’s Church, on the Investment Committee of the Chicago Bar Foundation, and on the Board of Directors of Dialogue Multimedia, Inc.
Brock Renner was named a Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisor for Illinois in 2024 and 2025.
2024-2025 Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2024-2025). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based 12-month time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award.
The term “Family Office Resources” is being used as a term of art and not to imply that Morgan Stanley and/or its employees are acting as a family office pursuant to Investment Advisers Act of 1940
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