Specialized Services

The Investor Relations (IR) service at PFM offers tailored strategies to assist issuers in optimizing their investor outreach efforts. Whether an issuer needs support with investor communications, transaction information evaluation, or maintaining an investor database, PFM’s IR advisory service is designed to help issuers in achieving their financing goals.

As the only independent financial advisory firm with a dedicated IR practice in the municipal bond market, we aim to optimize market positions and reduce capital costs through ongoing and proactive investor engagement. The PFM IR team’s comprehensive approach includes guiding organizations through the pricing process, conducting post-issuance reviews, advising issuers on IR activities when they are not active in the market, and setting benchmarks for future transactions.

PFM Swap Advisors LLC, PFM’s dedicated team providing our clients derivative advisory services, actively monitor the markets for innovative structures that utilize both competitive and negotiated processes, keeping our clients fully informed as they consider hedging their interest rate risk exposure and evaluate other derivative-based solutions.

We are not a derivatives broker or dealer, and we do not act as principal or counterparty for any transactions. This allows us to act independently, serving only one interest—yours.

With our proprietary SwapViewer® web-based application and our experience serving public entities, we combine human expertise and innovative technology.

In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, PFM’s swap advisory business is an independent SEC-registered Municipal Advisor, serving in your fiduciary best interest. We can serve in the role of Qualified Independent Representative or Designated Evaluation Agent on behalf of our clients, assisting our clients in achieving their short- and long-term objectives.

The dedicated professionals in our Quantitative Strategies Group (QSG) form the equivalent of an internal think tank and informational hub for PFM. QSG complements our client services with advanced financial analysis and commercial and proprietary tools to stay abreast of new and emerging products, structures, trends, and strategies. QSG also administers our ongoing training seminars for our clients which comprise a full menu of a variety of topics tailored to our clients’ needs while providing NASBA CPE credits.

Drawing upon our decades as a leader in our field, QSG gives PFM the concentrated knowledge to elevate the level of support we can offer you. The collaborative relationship between QSG, PFM’s advisors, and our clients support your progress toward achieving short-term goals and long-term strategic and capital funding objectives.

We have a comprehensive set of services to assist clients, from evaluating and constructing benefit plans that balance stakeholder needs to creating multi-faceted views of funding strategies and plans.

Our proprietary retirement funding model uses actuarial data to help our clients fully evaluate and quantify the costs and benefits of various funding strategies.

In addition to their consulting work, the Economic and Real Estate Consulting  (ERC) Team, as part of PFMGC, provides services to special taxing districts, local governments and redevelopment agencies. In this capacity the team provides special district management and reporting services, operational administration, accounting and tax roll services.