Wakely Investment Management

Wakely Investment Management is a boutique registered investment adviser managing roughly $86.7 million for about 57 client relationships and supported by a three-advisor team. The firm serves individual clients (including high‑net‑worth households), trusts, estates, and charitable organizations, providing portfolio management and integrated wealth‑management services that include ongoing financial planning.

The firm develops individualized investment policies through client discussions and constructs portfolios using ETFs, mutual funds, individual equities, and fixed income, managing accounts on either a discretionary or non‑discretionary basis. Its investment process combines fundamental analysis with technical and cyclical methods and, in some accounts, may incorporate option strategies, short sales, or margin—approaches that introduce additional risks and are less common for similarly sized advisers.

Wakely typically recommends custody and execution through a single institutional broker and participates in that broker’s institutional program, from which it receives operational and research benefits that could present conflicts of interest; the firm also reserves the right to decline accounts that direct use of other broker‑dealers. The firm maintains a generally applicable relationship minimum (typically $1 million, negotiable), manages a relatively small roster of clients allowing tailored service, and does not vote client proxies, leaving proxy voting responsibility to clients.