Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence: An Absolute Best Practice or Floating Standard?
Corgentum Consulting has released a new research piece which discusses the pros and cons of applying absolute best practice and floating standards towards hedge fund operational due diligence.
This paper outlines, the benefits to investors of developing and maintaining competency of global operational risk trends. While an absolute best practice standard facilitates uniformity in comparing operational risk information, this methodology can suffer from rigidity.
A floating standard can better accommodate the particularities of hedge funds operating in different regions but runs the risk of being overly flexible.
Hedge Fund Operatinal Due Diligence: An Absolute or Floating Standard? can be found in the Research section of the www.corgentum.com website, or via direct link here .
Corgentum releases new paper : Education Series – Information Technology Due Diligence
Corgentum Consulting has released a new paper entitled, Education Series – Information Technology Due Diligence.
This paper discusses the often overlooked nature and importance of incorporating a review of a hedge fund’s information technology infrastructure into the investor operational due diligence process. Specifically, the information technology topics discussed in this piece include a review of a hedge fund’s hardware, software, business continuity and disaster recovery and information security.
This paper can be found in the Research section of the www.Corgentum.com website, or via direct link here.
SEC Case Against Goldman a Smoking Gun?
Corgentum Consulting Managing Partner Jason Scharfman, appeared on Fox Business News to discusses the SEC’s 
complaint against Goldman Sachs. In the segment, which was titled, “SEC Case Against Goldman a Smoking Gun?” and hosted by Liz Claman, Mr. Scharfman discuss several aspects of the merits of the SEC’s civil complaint against Goldman Sachs including the role played by the broadening scope of due diligence in regulatory inquiries, the importance of scienter in securities litigation and the nature of investor disclosure statements made by hedge funds.
The clip is available here:
The segment can also be viewed on the Fox Business News Website.
