Industry Rankings

For over three decades, PFM has built a solid presence in the municipal marketplace. We have been involved in financing programs totaling in excess of $400 billion.  Last year, PFM advised on 625 bond transactions with a total volume of over $43.3 billion.

Consistency
For the past five years, PFM has been ranked as the nation's number one financial advisor for municipal overall long-term bond sales. Given the number of transactions we manage each year, PFM also has a broad and deep network of capital market professionals with which we interact.  This network of investors, underwriters, bankers, credit specialists and lawyers facilitates the transaction management process to our clients. 

As the largest financial advisory firm, PFM has the ability to solve our clients' intractable problems by using our market power to move the agenda.  Our constant participation in the markets only serves to further enhance our ability to do so.

Volume and Experience
Among the nationally known financial advisory firms, only PFM combines the experience gained in completing large numbers of transactions with the sophistication and analytic capability required to bring transactions of high par value to market.

As the graph below indicates, PFM stands apart from other independent financial advisors by combining par value and number of transactions.