Services:
Parkland Financial Services, Inc. ("PFS") has partnered with industry leaders in the service businesses required by asset management firms. Those partner disciplines include accounting, audit & tax, fund administration, legal, technology outsourcing, sales & marketing support and branding & identity solutions. The role of PFS is not only to provide introductions in these areas, where clients can take advantage of PFS preferred pricing, but also to manage those ongoing relationships allowing the investment manager to maintain focus on trading while allowing PFS to assist in reducing the ever increasing "operational risk".
PFS currently provides services to managers whose assets have grown from start-up to over $3 billion in AUM. We are consultants for some of the largest asset allocators in the alternative industry covering traditional wire house, family office and fund of funds products. Our fund administration clients range from public fund clients, with assets exceeding $150 million and over 1,000 partners, to emerging managers offering exempt private placements with assets under $25 million.
Our client base covers single manager funds, multi manager fund of funds, SMA account providers and outsourced executive services to Hedge funds, Commodity Trading Advisors and Private Equity clients.The products traded by our clients include equity, equity options, futures, options on futures, swap contracts and ETF's, among others, covering all market sectors. The managers include technical and fundamental strategists in global diversified and sector focused hedge funds, private placements and mutual funds, covering the energy, financial, grain, metal, currency, equity index, fixed income and real estate sectors.