Paul W. Harvey

Paul Harvey has been managing money for more than four decades. Not four years. Not fourteen. Forty. In an industry where the average advisor has been practicing for a fraction of that, Paul has seen — and managed through — every market environment imaginable: the crash of '87, the dot-com collapse, the global financial crisis, the pandemic, and everything in between. That depth of experience cannot be taught, replicated, or accelerated. It can only be earned.

Before joining Vaquero Private Wealth, Paul served as a Managing Director at BlackRock — the world's largest asset manager, with over $11 trillion in assets under management. At BlackRock, he led a large team of investment professionals responsible for high-net-worth individuals and institutions across twenty-nine states. In that capacity, he supported the design of multi-asset investment solutions that combined active and passive portfolio strategies with alternative investments — work that required the ability to think across asset classes, risk factors, and time horizons simultaneously.

Prior to BlackRock, Paul served as Regional Director and Portfolio Manager at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, where he developed customized portfolios for individual clients and oversaw a regional team of portfolio managers. It was in this role that he honed the skill that defines his work today: the ability to construct a portfolio that is genuinely tailored to one person's life — not a model designed for a demographic.

At Vaquero, Paul brings that institutional-scale perspective to an independent, fiduciary practice — designing customized multi-asset portfolio solutions for clients that integrate public equities, fixed income, alternatives, and private investments into a single, coordinated strategy. His approach begins not with a model or a benchmark, but with the client: their tax situation, their liquidity needs, their risk tolerance, their family dynamics, and their long-term intentions. Every portfolio he builds reflects those realities.