Great Lakes Fund Solutions, LLC
Financial ServicesIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
Great Lakes Fund Solutions, LLC is a financial services company that functions as a business process outsourcing firm, providing fund administration, transfer agency, and IT services for alternative investment funds distributed through broker/dealer, registered investment advisor, and wholesale networks. The company offers back-office and IT services to a range of investment vehicles, including public and private non-traded REITs, private real estate partnerships, oil and gas partnerships, managed futures funds, funds of hedge funds, business development companies, and other direct investment vehicles. Its eSuperior system is offered as a hosted product that can be used as a standalone solution for fund sponsors who wish to manage investor servicing themselves or as part of an extensive service that includes sales material fulfillment, compliance support, investor services staffing, and a call center for investors and advisors. The firm positions itself as a partner for fund sponsors seeking to respond to the challenging environment for marketing alternative investment products by appealing to the mass affluent market. The company was founded in 1982 as Marcal Systems Corporation, entering the transfer agency business for Commodity Pools, with Heinold Asset Management as its first fund administration client and launching a web-based user interface in 1999. It is located at 500 Park Avenue Suite 114, Lake Villa, Illinois 60046 United States, and employs between 11 and 50 people.