Experience

Makes all the difference

As Institutional Consultants, The Vierra Group takes the time to fully understand your organization, leadership, employees, and culture. We combine the advantages of an attentive boutique structure with the vast resources of a leading global financial firm. We draw upon our experience and knowledge in addressing sensitive plan and institutional fiduciary issues related to investments, education, compliance, and governance.

We design, implement and monitor the investment programs of public and private companies, endowments, foundations, as well as defined benefit and supplemental executive benefit plans. For our retirement plan sponsors, we help ensure the retirement benefit is designed in a way that is in line with the organization’s goals, culture, and financial constraints.

We offer customized, individual financial education and planning to each participant of the retirement plan. Our ultimate goal is to help each individual realize their definition of financial wellness today, and secure the retirement outcomes they’ve worked so hard to achieve.

Roger Vierra, Jr., CIMA

Senior Vice President–Investments

Roger brings more than thirty years of experience in providing publicly-traded and privately-held organizations with fiduciary institutional consulting services, including qualified and non-qualified retirement plan asset management and monitoring, and plan design and benchmarking.  His team also provides institutional-quality investment planning and advice to executives, small business owners, and institutional investors.

A Certified Investment Management Analyst, Roger focuses much of his work on providing institutions with asset allocation modeling and recommendations to optimize portfolio performance while reducing associated risk and expense.  Hallmarks of his team's institutional focus includes providing plan fiduciaries with support, education and guidance and providing plan participants with targeted investment education. 

Roger earned a B.A. in business administration from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, as well as an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from that institution's Crummer Graduate School of Business.  He holds Series 7, 63 and 65 securities licenses.

Roger was ordained a permanent deacon for the Archdiocese of Boston in October 2015.  He and his wife, Maryann, have three daughters, Erin, a graduate of the University of Virginia, Darci, a graduate of Providence College, and Kristi, a graduate of Wake Forest University.

Registered States:
  • AZ
  • CA
  • CO
  • CT
  • FL
  • GA
  • IA
  • IL
  • IN
  • KS
  • MA
  • ME
  • MI
  • NC
  • NH
  • NJ
  • NM
  • NY
  • OK
  • PA
  • RI
  • TN
  • TX
  • VA

Recognized as an industry leader:

  • NAPA Top DC Advisor Teams, 2021, 2022The NAPA rating is awarded annually in March based on information from December of the prior year.
  • PLANADVISER Top Retirement Plan Advisers, 2022, 2023The PLANADVISOR rating is awarded in Q1 based on information from Q1 of the award year.

Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

Education

  • Rollins College, B.A. Business Administration
  • Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business, M.B.A. Finance and Marketing

Credentials

  • Certified Investment Management Analyst®
Post Office Square, Boston MA 02109
Boston, MA 02109

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Jesse Masterson, CIMA, CRPS

Senior Wealth Strategy Associate

Jesse K. Masterson is a Senior Retirement Plan Consultant for UBS Financial Services.

He has worked with the Vierra Group since 2007, both at Bear Stearns & Co. and UBS. Jesse is a graduate of Boston University's School of Management with a concentration in Finance. Jesse holds his Certified Investment Management Analyst designation (CIMA®) and is a Chartered Retirement Plan Specialist (CRPS®). In addition, Jesse has his Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses.

Jesse helps design, implement and service retirement plans for publicly traded and privately held organizations and their employees. He also provides companies with corporate cash account services and tactical allocation for their investment accounts.

An important aspect of retirement plan implementation is the design and distribution of educational seminars and materials for plan sponsors, their administering staff and plan participants. Jesse develops and executes several programs and processes to assist plan fiduciaries in the management of their corporate retirement plans, including speaking engagements in conjunction with industry experts to address the latest regulations and working through fiduciary checklists and guidelines. Jesse also develops and presents retirement and other planning-related seminars for all plan participants—from pre-retirees to newly enrolled personnel—and helps coordinate education efforts across multiple employee locations when needed.

Jesse and his wife, Heather, and children, Ella and Jackson, live in Milton, MA. His personal interests include skiing and basketball.

Registered States:
  • MA

Education

  • Boston University's School of Management

Credentials

  • Certified Investment Management Analyst®
  • Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist℠
  • Senior Retirement Plan Consultant
1099 Hingham Street
3rd Floor
Rockland, MA 02370

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Erin O'Neill, CRPS

Vice President–Wealth Management

Financial Advisor

Erin O'Neill is Vice President, Financial Advisor of The Vierra Group. Erin is a Chartered Retirement Plan Specialist (CRPS®), and has her Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses. 

Prior to joining The Vierra Group in 2022, Erin spent nearly 10 years with John Hancock Retirement Plan Services, where she served as a Relationship Manager to many of John Hancock's largest institutional 401(k) plan sponsors. 

In her role with The Vierra Group, Erin helps design, implement and service retirement plans for publicly traded and privately held organizations and their employees. 

An important aspect of retirement plan implementation is the design and distribution of educational seminars and materials for plan sponsors, their administering staff and plan participants. Erin develops and executes several programs and processes to assist plan fiduciaries in the management of their corporate retirement plans, including speaking engagements in conjunction with industry experts to address the latest regulations and working through fiduciary checklists and guidelines.

Erin lives with her husband (Barrett), son (Luke), and dog (Archie) in Hingham, Massachusetts. She was formerly captain of the DI Women's Tennis Team at the University of Virginia, and she has since taken up pickleball. Her other pursuits include boxing and volunteering.

Registered States:
  • AZ
  • CA
  • CO
  • CT
  • DC
  • FL
  • GA
  • IA
  • ID
  • IL
  • IN
  • KS
  • KY
  • LA
  • MA
  • MD
  • ME
  • MI
  • MN
  • MS
  • NC
  • ND
  • NE
  • NH
  • NJ
  • NM
  • NV
  • NY
  • OH
  • OK
  • OR
  • PA
  • RI
  • SC
  • TN
  • TX
  • UT
  • VA
  • VI
  • VT
  • WA
  • WI
  • WV

Recognized as an industry leader:

  • NAPA Top DC Advisor Teams, 2022The NAPA rating is awarded annually in March based on information from December of the prior year.
  • PLANADVISER Top Retirement Plan Advisers, 2024The PLANADVISOR rating is awarded in Q1 based on information from Q1 of the award year.

Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

Education

  • University of Virginia, B.A. Foreign Affairs

Credentials

  • Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist℠
1099 Hingham Street
3rd Floor
Rockland, MA 02370

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Christopher Spellman

Vice President–Wealth Management

Christopher Spellman provides participant education for our group. Chris leads all conversations with a comprehensive planning approach. It helps him learn all he can about you and your participants so he can address the most important priorities. What's more, if circumstances change over time, or new opportunities arise, Chris can adjust the plan to ensure it is on track.

With over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, Chris understands the unique challenges 401(k) plan participants face. His goal is to help reduce plan participants stress around all financial matters. He helps clients clarify, coordinate, and manage multiple lifestyle goals by providing the following comprehensive services tailored to their unique situation:

  • Complimentary, confidential, comprehensive financial plans for all participants
  • Strategies for managing retirement income & expenses
  • Asset allocation and investment management across all account types-individual, joint, business, taxable and tax-deferred: IRAs, 401Ks and rollovers from retirement plans.
  • Strategies for navigating Social Security and Medicare
  • Legacy and business succession plans
  • Strategies for managing financial risk, including life insurance, long term care and annuities.

Registered States:
  • CT
  • DC
  • FL
  • GA
  • MA
  • ME
  • NC
  • NH
  • NM
  • PA
  • RI
  • SC
  • TN
  • TX
  • VT
  • WA
1099 Hingham Street
3rd Floor
Rockland, MA 02370

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