Tualatin, OR Office

Sound Investment Management serves individual investors — including high‑net‑worth individuals — as well as family trusts, estates, custodial accounts and not‑for‑profit organizations. The firm provides portfolio management and financial planning services and operates as a fee‑only advisor using percentage‑of‑AUM billing.

The firm primarily manages client accounts on a non‑discretionary basis, overseeing roughly $255 million in assets for about 140 clients and requiring client approval before executing recommended transactions; its investment work relies on fundamental research and a mix of long‑ and short‑term equity and fixed‑income strategies and allocations to mutual funds, ETFs and other securities. Custody and trade execution are generally handled through Charles Schwab Institutional, and the firm delivers custodial statements monthly and its own quarterly reports while encouraging client involvement in planning and decisions.

Noteworthy for a firm of its size, the dominant non‑discretionary model is uncommon among peers (only a small share of similar firms manage primarily non‑discretionary assets) and the brochure discloses how that structure can affect trade timing and order allocation. The advisory team includes professionals with CFP and CFA credentials and institutional trading experience, and the firm participates in Schwab Institutional programs that provide research and operational support — a relationship the firm discloses as a potential conflict of interest.