IMZ Advisory Inc. is a registered investment advisor firm registered with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since August 2021.
IMZ Advisory Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IMZ Financial Services, Inc. The principal
owners of IMZ Financial Services, Inc. are Irwin Zagoria, President and CEO of IMZ Advisory
Inc. and Cory Davis, Vice President of IMZ Advisory Inc.
Advisory Services
IMZ Advisory Inc. (“IMZ” or “Advisor”) principal service is providing fee-based investment
advisory services. The Advisor practices custom management of portfolios, on a discretionary
basis, according to the client’s objectives. The Advisor’s primary approach is to use a tactical
allocation strategy aimed at reducing risk and increasing performance. The Advisor may use
exchange listed securities, corporate debt securities, municipal securities, mutual funds, and
interests in partnerships investing in real estate to accomplish this objective. The Advisor
measures and selects mutual funds by using various criteria, such as the fund manager’s tenure,
and/or overall career performance. The Advisor may recommend, on occasion, redistributing
investment allocations to diversify the portfolio in an effort to reduce risk and increase
performance. The Advisor may recommend specific stocks to increase sector weighting and/or
dividend potential. The Advisor may recommend employing cash positions as a possible hedge
against market movement which may adversely affect the portfolio. The Advisor may recommend
selling positions for reasons that include, but are not limited to, harvesting capital gains or losses,
business or sector risk exposure to a specific security or class of securities, overvaluation or
overweighting of the position(s) in the portfolio, change in risk tolerance of client, or any risk
deemed unacceptable for the client’s risk tolerance.
Pension Consulting Services
IMZ will offer pension consulting services to Qualified Plans and participant fiduciary advice to
plan participants for assets held at Qualified Plans. The Advisor’s pension consulting services and
participant fiduciary advice will be based on information obtained from the plan participant about
goals and investment objectives, time horizon, risk tolerance and the plan participant's financial
situation. IMZ will utilize the Investment Policy Statement when providing standardized asset
allocation recommendations for the investment of assets within Qualified Plans. IMZ provides
ERISA Section 3(38) fiduciary investment services where IMZ is responsible for the
implementation of recommendations for the Qualified Plans.
IMZ may offer other pension consulting services that include but are not limited to educational
seminars, plan surveys, evaluations of vendor's services or special projects on behalf of the plan
sponsor.
Qualified Retirement Plan Consulting Services
As part of the Advisory Agreement for Pension Planning, IMZ may provide services as follows
for qualified retirement plans:
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Fiduciary Services
The Advisor will perform the following Fiduciary Services:
(i) Provide discretionary investment advice to the Client about asset classes and
investment alternatives available for the Plan in accordance with the Plan’s investment
policies and objectives.
(ii) Assist the Client with the selection of a broad range of investment options consistent
with ERISA section 404(c) and the regulations thereunder.
(iii) Assist the Client in the development of an investment policy statement (IPS). The IPS
establishes the investment policies and objectives for the Plan. Client shall have the
ultimate responsibility and authority to establish such policies and objectives and to
adopt and amend the investment policy statement.
(iv) Assist in monitoring investment options by preparing periodic investment reports that
document investment performance, consistency of fund management and conformance
to the guidelines set forth in the IPS and make recommendations to maintain or remove
and replace investment options.
(v) Meet with Client on a periodic basis to discuss the reports and the investment
recommendations.
(vi) Provide discretionary investment advice to the Plan Sponsor with respect to the
selection of a qualified default investment alternative (“QDIA”) for participants who
are automatically enrolled in the Plan or who otherwise fail to make an investment
election. The Client retains the sole responsibility to provide all notices to participants
required under ERISA section 404(c)(5).
(vii) Provide specific investment advice to participants concerning investing and portfolio
construction
who request it. Such investment advice will only be provided after
Advisor has assessed the participant’s investor profile based on information obtained
from the participant about goals and investment objectives, time horizon, risk tolerance
and the plan participant's financial situation.
Non-Fiduciary Services
The Advisor will perform the following Non-Fiduciary services:
(i) Assist in the education of the participants in the Plan about general investment
principles and the investment alternatives available under the Plan. Client understands
that Advisor’s assistance in participant investment education shall be consistent with
and within the scope of section (d) of Department of Labor Interpretive Bulletin 96-1
(i.e., the definition of investment education). As such, the Advisor is not providing
fiduciary advice (as defined in ERISA) to the participants. Advisor will not provide
investment advice concerning the prudence of any investment option or combination of
investment options for a particular participant or beneficiary under the Plan.
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(ii) Assist in the group enrollment meetings designed to increase retirement plan
participation among employees and investment and financial understanding by the
employees.
Advisor may provide these services or, alternatively, may arrange for the Plan’s other providers
to offer these services, as agreed upon between Advisor and Client.
The Advisor's roles and actions in fulfilling all responsibilities pertaining to the qualified plan
consulting services shall not include those of the Plan's Trustee and will be performed solely at the
direction of the Plan Sponsor, its authorized officers, employees and/or agents. At no time will
the Advisor accept, maintain possession of, or have custodial responsibility for the Plan's assets.
Communicational and educational activities in which the Advisor engages related to Participants
in the Plan shall be solely at the direction of the Plan Sponsor, and shall not be represented by the
Advisor or Plan Sponsor as investment, tax or legal advice. The Advisor is not licensed to provide,
shall not provide, nor be construed to provide, the services of an attorney or accountant.
Selection of Other Advisors
IMZ may recommend and refer clients to unaffiliated money managers or investment advisors
through Managed Account programs sponsored by a third-party provider. In these arrangements,
the client will then enter into a program and investment advisory agreement with the program
sponsor and sub-advisors. IMZ will assist and advise the client in establishing investment
objectives for the sub-advisors and continue to provide oversight of the client account and ongoing
monitoring of the activities of the sub-advisors. The sub-advisors will develop an investment
strategy to meet those objectives by identifying appropriate investments and monitoring such
investments. In consideration for such services, the program sponsor will charge a program fee
that includes the investment advisory fee of the sub-advisors, the administration of the program
and trading, clearance and settlement costs. The program sponsor will add IMZ's investment
advisory fee (described below in Item 5) and will deduct the overall fee from the client account
quarterly in advance based on the fair market value at the beginning of the quarter. The asset-
based program fee is tiered and varies depending on the size of the account, the asset class of the
underlying securities and the sub-advisor selected.
IMZ will ensure that all third-party money managers recommended to clients will be either an
investment advisor registered with the appropriate state securities regulators, the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), or exempt from such registrations. The client, prior
to entering into an agreement with a third-party money manager selected by IMZ, will be provided
with that manager’s Brochure. In addition, IMZ and its client will agree in writing that the client’s
account will be managed by that selected third-party money manager on a discretionary basis.
IMZ will tailor its advisory services to its client’s individual needs based on meetings and
conversations with the client. If clients wish to impose certain restrictions on investing in certain
securities or types of securities, the Advisor will address those restrictions with the client to have
a clear understanding of the client’s requirements.
IMZ does not provide portfolio management services to wrap fee programs.
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As of December 31, 2023, IMZ had $264,183,000 in discretionary, and $56,077,000 in non-
discretionary client assets under management.