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, ...

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 ...

Fund of Funds Due Diligence
feedproxy.google.com 10/20/2009 — Fund of Funds Due Diligence Due Diligence for Fund of Funds Investing in Hedge Funds The scandals and collapses in the financial industry has left many investors questioning the effectiveness of their due diligence practices.  Managers and investors in the fund of funds industry ...

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 ...

Luxembourg: Regulator Faults UBS’ Due Diligence in Custodianship of Madoff-Related Investments
securitiesdocket.com 2/26/2009 — Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, Luxembourg’s financial regulator, accused UBS of “serious failure” yesterday as part of its investigation into investments that funds based in Luxembourg made in Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme. The Times Online reports that ...

Check the Numbers: The Case for Due Diligence in Policy Formation
fraserinstitute.org 2/22/2009 — Empirical research in academic journals is often cited as the basis for public policy decisions, in part because people think that the journals have checked the accuracy of the research. Yet such work is rarely subjected to independent checks for ...

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 ...

Grim results predicted for UBS, Credit Suisse
reuters.com 2/9/2009 — GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss newspapers expect the country's top two banks, UBS AG ( UBSN.VX ) and Credit Suisse Group AG ( CSGN.VX ) to announce record losses for 2008 this week and predict UBS will unveil thousands of job cuts. Losses at the biggest ...

Madoff Ran Vast Options Game
online.wsj.com 12/16/2008 — A federal judge ordered the U.S. operations of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC to be liquidated, as fresh details emerged of trading discrepancies that offer clues as to how the New York broker may have run the epic scam alleged by ...

Why EU Banks Look Precarious
nakedcapitalism.com 10/12/2008 — We've said for some time that European banks are (believe it or not) in even worse shape on average than their US peers, although the public at large is far more aware of the problems here by virtue of our financial system having hit the wall so ...