Financial Flip-Flop in Benton County

Have you heard about the wealth management shakeup in Benton County?

Longtime Merrill Lynch executive Brent Henry and his team of wealth management advisers changed brokerage houses June 22, opening Benton County’s first Morgan Stanley Smith Barney office.

Henry and his five-person team— Dustin Colebank, Pam Raben, Mike Hudson, Josh McCaslin and Toni Peckenpaugh — are working out of a temporary space on the first floor of Pinnacle Hills Tower One on Pinnacle Point Drive near Cross Church in Rogers.

The second floor is being finished out, about 3,000 SF, and that will eventually be the office’s permanent home, Henry said. The building will then be known as the Morgan Stanley Tower.

“All of that should be finalized by no later than Oct. 1,” said Henry, whose departure ends a career of more than 20 years with Merrill Lynch.

At present, MSSB has one other Northwest Arkansas office, on Millsap Road in Fayetteville, managed by Russell Kelley.