Book description
Hedge Fund Due Diligence
provides a step-by-step methodology that will allow you to recognize
and avoid questionable hedge funds before
its too late. Based on a framework that hedge fund investigative expert
Randy Shain has refined over the course of his successful career, this
book offers an overview of due diligence into hedge fund management, how
information on managers can be obtained, and why this information is
essential to your investment endeavors.
Randy Shain is Vice
President at First Advantage Investigative Services, producers of the
BackTrack Report, where he examines funds and fund management. Since
1993, Shain has examined more than 2,500 funds and 4,500 hedge fund
managers. His due diligence work has expanded as the number and size
of hedge funds has skyrocketed, with more than 9,000 funds, managing
more than . 2 trillion today. As part of his work, Shain examines
court filings, criminal records, news clippings, and conducts
extensive interviews.