Our Services

EFSI’s services include accounting, reporting and administrative services to private investment funds and managed accounts; capital introduction services; and advisory and outsourced COO/CFO services. EFSI enables the investment manager to focus more closely on their investment strategy, comfortable in the knowledge that the critical administrative functions that are necessary for them to succeed are in the hands of skilled, accomplished and seasoned professionals.

Fund Administration

EFSI serves as the official books and records of the fund, recording all aspects of a fund’s trading activity, and validating pricing in accordance with the fund’s pricing policy and prices published by third party pricing sources such as Bloomberg and Refinitiv. EFSI has the flexibility to customize reports, providing the investment manager with a comprehensive analysis of fund performance and transparent communication of fund results to investors.

EFSI records all aspects of our clients’ portfolio company holdings beginning with equity or debt securities transactions and storing key parameters (e.g. conversion ratios, expiration dates, payment schedules and restrictions). Portfolio investment valuations are updated in accordance with the fund’s pricing policies, to allow for monitoring of overall fund performance. In addition, we have the flexibility to customize reports, providing the investment manager with a comprehensive analysis of fund performance and transparent communication of fund results to investors.

The Paxus platform features an integrated allocation engine which can perform complex calculations such as waterfalls, tiered hurdle rates, and claw-backs, as well as an extensive design allowing EFSI to customize fee calculations for its clients. EFSI’s reporting platform provides complete transparency, while offering multi-currency support and flexible reporting. For distribution of investor statements, EFSI also offers a secure investor web-portal featuring a two-factor authentication process and the ability to securely partition folders inside the data room for controlled access.

Capital Introduction Program

As a private fund administration company, EFSI in a unique position to provide professional introduction and marketing of our clients, alternative investment managers, to institutional clients and high net worth investors. We are strategically positioned to share our clients information with established, tenured and start-up, emerging trading advisors in the alternative investment universe, as well as make introductions to well established third-party marketing firms and FINRA registered broker dealers.

EFSI will review our client’s trading strategy and marketing materials in an effort to discern any weaknesses or flaws that may exist in the existing marketing materials. We will work with you to fully understand your investment strategy as well as the nuances within your strategy that gives your fund a niche/edge over your competitors. It is this understanding that allows us to bridge an information gap between yourself and the investor community and to thoroughly educate investors on your trading strategies/models. Equally as important are the quantitative hurdles that each advisor must meet through the performance of their programs. EFSI utilizes well established, industry volatility measurements to quantifying the statistical value of each manager’s trading and investment performance.

When appropriate, EFSI will provide you with contacts made-up of various investors that would be appropriate to our client’s investment strategy profile:

Private Pensions
Corporate Pensions
Public Pensions
Single-Advisor Funds/Fund of Funds/Multi-Advisor Funds
Hedge Funds/Fund of Funds
Insurance Investments Administrators
Endowments
Family Offices
Trusts
Financial Services Institutions
Prime Services
High Net Worth Investors

Whether our clients’ objectives reveal absolute or relative performance-based outcomes, our network of investors should deliver optimal access to the most appropriate investor base.

ADVISORY & OUTSOURCED SERVICES

Through its strategic relationships in the alternative investment industry, EFSI offers clients cost-effective advisory and outsourced services solutions. The complexities and risks in starting, restructuring or selling an advisory firm, hedge fund, or private equity fund can be enormous. Choices made during the early stages of firm or fund formation and launch are critical, and each piece plays an integral part in its success. Utilizing our highly experienced team within their dedicated specialties provides clients with the necessary attention to detail in a transparent, customer-focused way.

Formation/Start‐Up

Initial Needs and Fund Formation Assessment
Vendor Selection
Document Review
Price and Term Negotiation

Restructuring/Suspension

Staff Supplementation
Portfolio and Fund Structure
Complexity Analysis
Final Liquidation

Sale/Acquisition

Firm and Fund Pre‐sale Analysis
Independent Support
Pre and Post Sale Continuity Support for Investors

Outsourced CFO/COO and Compliance support

Accounting

Daily Cash Reconciliation
Expense and Fee Processing
NAV approval

Operations

Trade Capture
Trade Reconciliation
Position Reconciliation
Corporate Action Processing
Interface with Third Parties

Compliance

Risk Assessments
Disclosure Review
Post‐trade Analysis
Regulatory Filing Review
Annual Review

Management Company

Company Set Up Consultancy Formation
Document Review
Books and Records Maintenance

Shadow Administration

As investment managers strive to strengthen their middle and back office operations, they realize the benefits of partnering with administrators like EFSI who provide expertise in trade capture, reconciliation, and price verification to ensure fund data is complete and accurate. As a result, shadow administration is growing in popularity as investment managers offer their clients the additional level of comfort that a third party administrator is verifying their portfolio reporting.

EFSI has implemented a solution to capture, reconcile and verify the pricing of portfolios to shadow the investment manager’s own back office reporting, while offering an important independent third party validation for investors. Responsibility for accurate valuation reporting remains with the investment manager, but the addition of shadow administration when performed by EFSI provides a greater level of comfort for investors.

EFSI will assist investment managers who are performing certain fund accounting functions in-house, or who have contracted with a third party fund administrator, to customize a client’s shadow administration program to meet specific client needs.