Hedge Fund Due Diligence

Hedge Fund Due Diligence provides a step-by-step methodology that will allow you 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 offers 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.

Essential issues addressed throughout these pages include:

• Why do most hedge funds really fail?

• What are the various types of due diligence?

• Can the chances of investing in future failuresbe lessened or prevented?

• What are the best ways to find public records—from court documents and news files to corporate records

• How effective is the Internet in the due diligence process?

• And much more