Jason Morton

Jason Morton has spent over twenty-seven years doing one thing exceptionally well: managing money. Not allocating it to models. Not outsourcing it to platforms. Managing it — security by security, client by client, with the analytical discipline of an institutional portfolio manager and the personal attentiveness of a trusted advisor.

Before joining Vaquero Private Wealth in 2022, Jason served as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Northern Trust — one of the world's premier private banks, with over $1 trillion in assets under custody and administration. At Northern Trust, he managed portfolios for ultra-high-net-worth families, foundations, and trusts, working within an institutional framework that demanded rigorous investment process, disciplined risk management, and fiduciary accountability.

Prior to Northern Trust, Jason served as Chief Investment Officer for an independent RIA in Dallas, where he was responsible for the firm's entire investment program — asset allocation, manager selection, portfolio construction, and performance oversight. It was a role that required both conviction and accountability: every decision was his, and every outcome was visible.

Jason's career also includes leadership positions in private equity and real estate advisory — experience that gives him a rare fluency across both public and private markets. He understands how a private equity commitment interacts with a public portfolio's liquidity profile, how real estate cash flows affect overall asset allocation, and how to construct a total portfolio that integrates every asset class a family holds.