
An insider's guide to evaluating the most important part of a hedge fundAmaranth. Aurora. The Manhattan Fund. Bayou. To anyone invested in or interested in investing in hedge funds, these names evoke one thought: blow-ups. Knowing that these and other hedge funds have faltered is not particularly valuable; knowing how to avoid funds that might blow-up is crucial. Hedge Fund Due Diligence provides a step-by-step methodology that allows readers to do just that. Based on a framework that hedge fund investigative expert Randy Shain has refined over the course of his successful career, this book provides an overview of due diligence into hedge fund management, how information on managers can be obtained, and why this information is essential to the investment community. This timely resource will help readers spot blow-ups and avoid them.Randy Shain (Port Washington, NY) is Vice President at First Advantage Investigative Services, producers of the BackTrack Report, where he examines funds and fund management.
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At the top of a company, sales do not matter, profits do not matter, even return on investment is a secondary concern. What matters is share price and what drives share price is the creation of shareholder value. Many marketing directors, obsessed with branding and other promotional tactics, miss this fundamental truth of modern business and so destroy the wealth of their company's ultimate owners. By failing to consider and manage the business risk associated with their strategies, they deliver returns below the cost of capital and neglect the firm's raison d'etre. The board needs a way of holding these marketers to account. Marketing Due Diligence is a new process which has emerged from years of research at Cranfield, one of Europe's leading business schools. It blends proven ideas from strategic and financial management with new concepts about organisational effectiveness to create a process that directly connects marketing strategy to sh
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Companies of all sizes have been initiating international transactions—mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and private placements—in record numbers. Targeted due diligence is crucial to effectively research, value, and complete these complex deals. With an evolving climate of uncertainty and new, unpredictable threats to business, it is more essential than ever before. Due Diligence for Global Deal Making is an invaluable guidebook for companies trying to capitalize on the opportunities in both developed and emerging cross-border markets. All too often global transactions fail to meet the parties’ expectations, and the leading culprit is inadequate due diligence. Especially when the target partner lacks a financial performance track record and significant assets, expanding businesses must answer difficult questions, such as: Why (if at all) should we do this deal? What are the rules going in, and what happens if things go wrong? Where are the tax, legal, financial, and operational traps, and what are the opportunities? This book provides what’s needed to avoid devastating mistakes and to master the steps that ensure success.
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