Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence Question List
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 3/10/2009 — Due Diligence Questions Hedge Fund Due Diligence Questions Below please find a list of of questions which may be asked during an on site due diligence visit by a consultant or fund of fund. We have just added this list to our Hedge Fund Due Diligence Tool . a) Verify the business location ...

Qualitative Hedge Fund Due Diligence
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 2/12/2009 — Qualitative Due Diligence Qualitative Hedge Fund Due Diligence Here is a short article excerpt from a piece discussing the growing importance of due diligence on more of a qualitative rather than quantitative level. The new hedge fund reality places even greater emphasis on due diligence, ...

Investor Due Diligence & Emerging Managers?
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 7/10/2009 — Investor Due Diligence & Emerging Managers? My background is in marketing and I know one of the big challenges of raising capital for both emerging and medium sized hedge funds is that everyone wants their 3, 15 or 125 checkboxes to be complete. There are so many investment managers ...

Vast Under-Investment in Due Diligence
ritholtz.com 12/19/2008 — With everyone tsk-tsking the Madoff scandal — the amount lost, the after-the-fact obviousness, the SEC incompetence — I thought now was as good a time as any to look at the actual research, due diligence and manpower thrown at ...

Hedge Fund of Funds Assets
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 8/26/2009 — Hedge Fund of Funds Assets Hedge Fund of Funds Continue to Lose Assets As individual hedge funds recover in the first half of 2009, hedge fund of funds are still suffering heavy redemptions. A recent study of the top 50 hedge funds of funds found all but two funds have not recovered from ...

R-Squared Energy Blog: Another Journalist Fails Due Diligence 101
i-r-squared.blogspot.com 8/24/2009 — I have had a number of people ask me about the E-Fuel MicroFueler , so at one point I did a bit of investigating. It is essentially a small still, but apparently has a fermentation capability if the feedstock contains sugar. However, they stress that ...

Hedge Funds Up 9%
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 7/28/2009 — Hedge Funds Up 9% Hedge Funds Up 9% | Performance Update 2008 was a tough year for hedge funds but the industry has rebounded in the first half of this year. Hedge funds returns have improved by more than 9% with a 0.23% in June. Mortgage hedge funds performed the best in the last six ...

Green Fund of Hedge Funds
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 8/11/2009 — Green Fund of Hedge Funds Fund of Hedge Funds Follows Green Movement Bookbinder Capital Management LLC is following the green environmental movement with its new fund of hedge funds. Bookbinder launched the new fund, TerraVerde Capital Partners LLC, to generate returns from the changes in ...

Fund of Funds Madoff
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 8/28/2009 — Fund of Funds Madoff Funds of Hedge Funds After Bernie Madoff Funds of hedge funds are trying to remake their image after Bernard Madoff 's massive ponzi scheme. Investors have lost confidence in the fund of hedge funds industry from factors including poor returns, a deep recession and ...

Operational Due Diligence Analyst Position Open
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 6/2/2009 — To Apply please click here Cambridge Associates was founded in the early 1970s to provide investment and financial research, consulting, and advisory services to endowments and other nonprofit institutions. Today, those services have been expanded to include alternative assets research and ...

Bond Funds: Behind Dan Fuss' Stellar Record — BusinessWeek.com -- Finance 10/18/2009
The manager of the top-performing Loomis Sayles Bond Fund has learned over the last year to keep the portfolio as liquid as possible

Analyzing Mutual Funds For Maximum Return — Investopedia.com Headlines 10/20/2009
Using a few simple metrics will help you pick the right fund for your portfolio.

Galleon Group Unwinding Funds — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 10/21/2009
Galleon Group , the hedge fund group run by former tech analyst Raj Rajaratnam , told employees and investors in a letter that the company is winding down all of its funds, the Wall Street Journal reports . Rajaratnam was oen of six people ...

Hedge Fund Vet Launches First U.S. 'Green' Fund Of Funds (USO, GE, AONE, PBW, FSLR) — Investopedia.com Headlines 10/22/2009
Bookbinder Capital Management recently rolled out TerraVerde Capital Partners, a fund of funds that invests only in green hedge funds.

The Lowdown On Index Funds — Investopedia.com Headlines 10/21/2009
If you can't beat the market, why not join it? Read on to go over your options.