Norfolk, VA Office

Zak Investment Management Company, LLC provides discretionary investment advisory and portfolio management services to individuals (including high-net-worth clients), trusts, estates, foundations, and charitable organizations on a fee-only basis. The firm does not provide financial planning, estate planning, or accounting services and generally charges asset-based advisory fees.

Zak’s investment process uses fundamental analysis and allocates across individual equities, fixed income, mutual funds and ETFs — including inverse and leveraged funds — employing long-term, short-term and trading strategies with ongoing monitoring and rebalancing; the firm also treats cash and cash equivalents as a material component of client allocations. Accounts are typically managed on a discretionary basis with custodial relationships (commonly Schwab) and the brochure highlights the higher transaction and fund-level risks associated with active trading and leveraged/inverse products.

Notably, Zak may negotiate performance-based (incentive) fees with eligible clients — generally described in the brochure as ranging from about 10–15% of realized and unrealized profits — and it discloses the conflict-of-interest and potential for riskier investment incentives that such side-by-side fee arrangements can create. The firm manages a modest number of client relationships and assets (roughly $50.5 million across about 20 clients) and maintains written policies addressing personal trading and related conflicts, while clients retain responsibility for voting proxies.