Sound Investment Management

Sound Investment Management

Sound Investment Management was founded in 1993 and structured as an independent, employee-owned Registered Investment Advisor. The firm operates from two offices — a West Coast base in Tualatin, Oregon, near Portland, and an East Coast office in Marshall, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. This bicoastal footprint supports a nationwide client base of individuals, high-net-worth households, and not-for-profit organizations. The firm deploys capital through a fee-only advisory framework, meaning it earns no commissions on product sales. Its investment management services encompass portfolio construction, rebalancing, and manager selection across public equities, fixed income, and cash equivalents. The retirement-planning practice addresses 401(k) rollovers, IRA strategies, and distribution planning. Financial planning engagements layer tax-aware positioning, estate planning coordination, and philanthropic giving guidance on top of the core asset-management relationship. The client base skews toward mass-affluent and high-net-worth individuals, along with non-profit institutions. As of 2026, the firm managed over $100 million in client assets and was regulated at the federal level by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Beyond the two principal office locations, the firm has not publicly disclosed a separate foundation, venture arm, or club-investment structure. Its team size and detailed leadership roster are not published — the website presents the firm collectively, consistent with an employee-owned entity that does not centralize authority in a single named founder. Employee ownership creates a structural governance differentiator in the RIA landscape. With no outside private-equity backer or consolidator parent, client-facing advisors share directly in the firm’s economics, which can align retention incentives with multi-decade planning relationships. The architecture also insulates the investment committee from pressure to cross-sell proprietary products — a dynamic reinforced by the fee-only, fiduciary model the firm's SEC registration mandates.