Corgentum Consulting Announces Webinar On Customizing Operational Due Diligence Approaches For Hedge Funds And Private Equity Investors

Learn essential techniques to analyze emerging compliance and operational risks based on new 2020 industry developments

Corgentum Consulting, a leading provider of operational due diligence reviews and background investigations, announced that it will be hosting a webinar covering ways investors can tailor their operational due diligence (ODD) approach for different alternative investment strategies including hedge funds and private equity. It will take place on Wednesday February 12, 2020 beginning at 10:30am EST.

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Webinar topics will include:

• Designing a private equity specific operational due diligence process
• Customizing your ODD process for different hedge fund strategies including equity, quantitative funds, debt and private credit
• Understanding how recent regulatory and compliance changes impact hedge funds and private equity differently
• Incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) analysis into the ODD process
• Understanding how the 2020 Examination Priorities of the US Securities and Exchange Commissions Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations influence alternative investment compliance and operations analysis
• Tailoring your analysis of alternative investment service providers during ODD including the administrator, auditor, compliance consultant, prime broker, legal counsel, information technology consultant, and third-party valuation agents
• How investors can customize background checks for hedge funds and private equity across five key areas:
  • Criminal checks
  • Litigation searches
  • Regulatory searches
  • Factual information review (i.e. – previous employment, education and certifications
  • News and social media reviews
• Customizing information technology operations, and cybersecurity analysis for fund managers of different sizes and strategies
• Analyzing fund manager business continuity and disaster recovery protocols including planning for events such as the effects of the Coronavirus in China, Hong Kong and throughout Asia
• Approaches towards incorporating RegTech tools, big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) and into the investor due diligence process

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The webinar will be hosted by Jason Scharfman, a leading expert in fund operations and due diligence. Mr. Scharfman is also the author of the newly released Private Equity Compliance: Analyzing Conflicts, Fees, and Risks (Wiley Finance) available on Amazon. The book serves as a compliment to his previous book Hedge Fund Compliance: Risks, Regulation, and Management.

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