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Lessons
Learned
Ty Vinick Continues
a Family Legacy at
Moors & Cabot
BY JOSEPH BEDNAR
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Ty Vinick says his grandfather, the late Jim Vinick,
had been “training me my whole life.”
That’s not surprising to anyone who knew
Jim, the former managing director of investments at
Moors & Cabot — and a 2013 BusinessWest Differ-
ence Maker — who passed away in June, and was
known for his passion for financial literacy.
“When I was like 8 years old, he was teaching us
stocks and bonds and everything else,” Ty recalled. “I
came to work with him at the start of this year, and I
was hoping to work with him longer — I mean, he’d
been teaching me my whole life though.”
That wasn’t meant to be, however. “Three days
before he passed, we were in the hospital, and he was
asking to check on his portfolio. So he was working
right up to the end. He went out with his boots on.”
Those are certainly massive boots to fill — Jim
was one of the driving forces behind the establish-
ment and evolution of the Basketball Hall of Fame in
Springfield, as well as a longtime, respected wealth
manager and financial expert — but Ty is up for the
challenge, recently taking over his grandfather’s book
of clients and running the Springfield office of Moors
& Cabot, a Boston-based financial planning firm with
numerous locations across the U.S.
“He loved his job,” Ty recalled. “Outside of his fam-
ily, he loved his job, and he loved the Basketball Hall
of Fame. Anyone who ever met him heard all about
both things. He had incredible relationships with
people, and I feel really fortunate that I get to do the
same thing he did.
“I see a side of him that maybe even other people
in our family don’t get to see, where I’m talking with
people, and they say, ‘you know, he was like a father
figure to me. He was there for me when my husband
passed or when my parents passed, and I didn’t know
what to do, and there was money, and I needed help
handling it,’” he went on. “And then they’re like, ‘but
he was also just there to talk about life and what I
might need.’ So it’s good to see, not just coming from
him, but from other people, the impact he had on
them, where they say, ‘you know, when I really needed
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