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 Service Provider Directory
SEARCH RESULTS: 57 Risk Management
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Zoe Jenkins Communications Manager
312. 421. 9200
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954 West Washington
Suite 1W
CHicago IL 60607 USA
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Specialty: Adaptive Alpha LLC is a quantitative research and development company based in Chicago, IL, which performs research on strategy and execution risk in the global financial markets and develops quantitative analytics to enable investors to realize optimal risk/reward results on an on-going basis. The companys research is fueled by domain expertise in strategy and execution risk in the global financial markets, which drives the development of quantitative analytics and transforming innovations in service delivery. Development is further strengthened by a proprietary approach to the measurement, analysis and interpretation of risk in making and executing investment decisions using Adaptives business process based methodology.
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Sponsor of the Managed Futures & Commodities Investing Event, held April 22, 2008, in Chicago IL.
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Risk Management/US & North America
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Raphi Zaionz Business Development Consultant, Algorithmics Managed Service
416-217-4623
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185 Spadina Avenue
6th Floor
Toronto ON M5T 2C6 Canada
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Specialty: Algo Risk Service is a Web-based market risk measurement and management service. ARS provides a wide variety of risk analytics via an online workbench. Portfolio managers, traders, risk managers and senior officers can use ARS to take a proactive approach to risk oversight and decision-making. ARS is delivered online, requiring nothing but a browser. Behind the scenes, the client receives his own dedicated hardware hosted at Algos data center. The user provides a daily portfolio holdings extract electronically. Algos turnkey systems integrate this holdings data with market data (yield curves, fx rates, volatility surfaces, etc.) and terms and conditions data (maturity dates, call schedules) from a variety of sources to produce the valuations and scenarios which drive the risk measurement process. Users can access the full functionality of the application over the internet, creating and editing positions, defining reports, running what-if trade analysis, and using optimization routines to minimize risk.
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Risk Management/Asia Europe Latin America Offshore US & North America
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Leslie Rahl Founder and President
212.404.6100
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101 East 52nd Street
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New York NY 10022 USA
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Specialty: Capital Market Risk Advisors, Inc. (CMRA) is the preeminent financial risk advisory firm in the United States specializing in risk management, hedge funds, CDOs, financial forensics, and derivatives. We provide a unique depth of knowledge, hands-on experience, and practical solutions. For more than 15 years, CMRA has played an integral role assisting clients develop and manage the risks of derivatives, structured securities and other complex instruments in both the developed and emerging markets. We provide services to all kinds of financial market participants, including hedge funds, fund of funds, and institutional investors. CMRA was founded by Leslie Rahl, a leading derivatives, hedge fund, and risk management expert with over 35 years experience in the Financial Services Industry. Mrs. Rahl was named among the Top 50 Women in Finance by Euromoney. Her partner is Barbara Lucas, a well-known securities and banking lawyer with more than 25 years of experience in law, business and government. Click here for bios of principals. Services • Reviews of practices vs. best practice • Risk diagnosis • Policy, procedures and guideline creation or review • Due diligence • Litigation support/financial forensics • Corporate/Risk Governance Services • Compliance Reviews/Regulatory Advice • Risk budgeting • Risk Branding • Establishing hedge funds and funds of funds • New product development Selected Assignments • Drafted and reviewed risk management policies and practices for numerous traditional and alternative asset managers and recommended improvements. • Advised major asset management companies on global compliance, risk management, risk governance, and new product development. • Worked with Buy Side Risk Managers Forum to develop new risk principles for asset managers (to be published 4th quarter, 2007). • Reviewed CDO valuation practices for several clients. • Analyzed numerous CDOs of large investment managers and recommended structuring and risk management enhancements. • Advised major global macro fund regarding risk branding. • Advised on the acquisition of a credit derivatives business. • Prepared expert reports and/or testified in several high-profile cases including Sumitomo Copper, Minmetals, Askin, etc. • Provided M&A/due diligence support on a fund of funds acquisition. • Advised law firms regarding tax related derivatives matters, mutual fund timing, etc. • Trained boards of several public pension funds in risk budgeting techniques and advised in asset allocation. • Conducted due diligence on numerous traditional and alternative funds and managers on behalf of institutional investors. • Benchmarked the practices of hedge funds, money managers, funds of funds and institutional investors vs. best practice. • Was hired by the Federal Reserve, SEC, CFTC and NYS Banking Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of the derivatives business of Bankers Trust. • Helped identify the issues confronting Orange County at the time of its crisis. • Advised on the unwind of an emerging market hedge fund with over 100 derivative positions.
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Sponsor of The Lipper HedgeWorld Risk Forum, held October 25, 2007, in Greenwich CT.
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Risk Management/US & North America
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Michael Poisson Vice President Sales
877.427.5300
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500 Airport Blvd
Suite 200
Burlingame CA 94010 USA
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Specialty: Cogency delivers software solutions for hedge funds, funds-of-hedge-funds, prime brokers and fund administrators to provide an integrated management solution that automatically tracks and presents investor, prospect, portfolio, risk, accounting, and market data (internally and externally to the organization) to support AUM growth, increased performance and controlled risk, without significant increases in operating costs and support personnel. Our solutions deliver accurate, complete and timely visibility into business insights relevant to all key stakeholders (investors, partners, operating personnel, risk officers, portfolio managers, etc.)
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The Lipper HedgeWorld 3rd Fund Services Expo was a success. We thank our sponsors and attendees for their participation.
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Risk Management/Asia Europe Latin America Offshore US & North America
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FEATURED COMPANY
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Michael Poisson Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
908-508-8012, 201-463-7500
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30 E. 39th Street, 5th Floor
New York NY 10016 USA
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Specialty: Investor Analytics LLC (IA), founded in 1999, offers cutting-edge risk measurement and risk management services for asset managers and asset owners. With clients located in the US, Europe and Asia, IA offers a truly global service. <br><br> Our application is remotely hosted so clients have no software to download to their machines; access is provided through a secure internet connection, with the added bonus that all software updates flow seamlessly to our clients. The Service component is equally important to IA; we pride ourselves on having a world-class Client Service team, recognized as among the most responsive, knowledgeable and professional in the industry. <br><br> Our Financial Engineers, all highly qualified with Masters degrees and Doctorates, lead our Research and Development process, constantly updating our product offerings so we remain at the forefront of the industry. Within the past 12 months, some of the notable enhancements include the release of an enhanced Monte Carlo VaR; expanded market stress capabilities in which we highlight recent movement in the stresses (i.e. the mean, standard deviations and range of each risk factor over a given time period) allowing clients to stress the portfolio with a better understanding of the typical range of the stress, and can also stress a factor and specify that the remaining factors auto calculate based on the covariance with the reference factor; the development of UCITS IV reporting to meet the new requirements; the development of Money Market Stress tests to comply with recent SEC directives for 2a-7 funds.
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Risk Management/US & North America
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Michael C. Levien Partner
203.921.1281
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20 Summer Street
2nd Floor
Stamford CT 06901 USA
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Specialty: LexPro Research LLC is a risk mitigation firm that provides domestic and international business intelligence services. Our team has over 25 years of research and investigative experience. We specialize in high-level due diligence and background research as well as corporate investigations and litigation support, among other services. Our research can reveal prior criminal activity, regulatory issues, civil litigation, bankruptcy filings, liens, judgments, conflicts of interest, undisclosed assets or liabilities, material misrepresentations and omissions. Our clients include major corporations, law firms, and financial institutions including: investment banks, private equity groups, hedge funds and fund of funds, family offices, and high-net worth individuals. LexPro Research offers a superior product, competitive prices, and fast response times.
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Sponsor of The Lipper HedgeWorld Risk Forum, held October 25, 2007, in Greenwich CT.
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Risk Management/US & North America
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Angie Robert Senior Marketing Analyst
858.244.4720
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9201 Spectrum Center Blvd.
Suite 105
San Diego CA 92123 USA
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Specialty: Life settlements offer a rare investment opportunity to institutional investors. Life settlements are one of the few non-correlated asset classes offering low volatility, minimal gap risk and above market returns. Partnering with the optimal life settlement provider is essential for an institutional investor to enter the life settlement marketplace and realize the highest potential yields, while minimizing risk. Life Settlement Solutions the industrys premier and most respected provider offers investors a significant and steady flow of assets from the industrys most coveted distribution network allowing investors to deploy capital in accordance with investment needs. For more information, contact Life Settlement Solutions at 858/576-8067 or visit www.lss-corp.com.
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Sponsor of the Fund Services Expo and Conference 2008, held June 3, 2008, in NYC.
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Risk Management/US & North America
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FEATURED COMPANY
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Ittai Korin President
1-866-RISKAPI
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75 Spring St
8th Floor
New York NY 10012 USA
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Specialty: PortfolioScience RiskAPI: A powerful & affordable risk management application service for hedge funds. Secure, networked component that allows remote access to dynamic VaR calculations, volatility, beta, correlation, covariance matrices, and more. Rapidly integrate a sophisticated exposure management system into your fund. Add risk calculations to your back-office with RiskAPI Enterprise, or make advanced risk analysis quick and easy with the RiskAPI Add-In. Visit us at www.portfolioscience.com
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Risk Management/Europe US & North America
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Joe Sturtevant CEO
203 355-1510 ext. 104
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107 Elm Street
Suite 402
Stamford CT 06902 USA
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Specialty: RiskSpan, Inc. provides on demand Valuation, Risk Management, Analytic, Data and Trade Management services spanning all fixed income products, with emphasis on MBS/ABS/CDO. In the wake of the recent upheaval in the Credit markets RiskSpan has participated in valuing several large portfolios of ABS (sub-prime and prime) and CDO product. RiskSpan employs a rigorous loan level prepay and credit analysis in the valuation process. RiskSpans focus, experience, and infrastructure make it uniquely qualified to perform valuations of large portfolios of MBS, ABS, ABCDS and CDOs. RiskSpan goal is to provide a flexible, fast and fully integrated solution for the valuation and trading of fixed income products. RiskSpan delivers: * Experience - Trading, Data Management and IT experience in the MBS/ABS markets. * Computation Firepower - Quick turnarounds on large portfolios. * Flexibility - Custom reporting, analysis and integration of 3rd party models. * Data - Large proprietary loan level database combined with the INTEX waterfall models provides a supportable valuation solution. CDO Valuations: * Loan Level Analysis * Large Loan Database * Support for a variety of underlying assets * Prepay and Credit Model Transparency * Run Aggregate CF through the INTEX waterfall or RiskSpans CDO Modeling Language.
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Sponsor of The Lipper HedgeWorld Risk Forum, held October 25, 2007, in Greenwich CT.
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Risk Management/US & North America
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FEATURED COMPANY
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Nicola Hamilton Marketing Director
+44 (0)20 7220 5500
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6 Gracechurch Street
London EC3V 0AT United Kingdom
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Specialty: SOPHIS is a leading provider of cross-asset portfolio and risk management solutions. The company has a global presence with offices around the world. Sophis serves over 5,000 users in 130 market-leading institutions, including investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds and insurance companies with its three solutions, RISQUE, dedicated to the sell-side, and VALUE and iSophis dedicated to the buy-side. www.sophis.com As more stringent risk management controls are demanded by both investors and regulators, Sophis is helping investment organisations to meet these new business requirements. By offering comprehensive portfolio and risk management capabilities within a single solution, we can support firms immediate risk management requirements and provide a robust technology platform to support their future growth plans. VALUE is a cross-asset portfolio and risk management solution dedicated to the buy-side covering the whole STP process: investment management, risk management, middle/back office and accounting. It combines sell-side level financial and technological capabilities with the user-friendliness, connectivity and ease of implementation required by the buy-side. VALUE has been adopted by more than 80 institutions worldwide, from start-up hedge funds to global asset management companies. iSophis is a powerful technology solution that provides integrated portfolio and risk management services through a simple ASP model. It is targeted at hedge fund managers who want to benefit from leading edge analytics for P&L, risk and performance measurement in a secure, powerful and simple hosted environment. iSophis is powered by Sophis VALUE. www.isophis.com
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Sponsor of the Spring 2010 Fund Services Conference, held May 20, 2010, in NYC.
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APT, Inc.
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J.F. Chauwin
17 State Street
3rd Floor
New York NY 10004 USA
212-514-9191
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Specialty: Advanced Portfolio Technologies develops, produces and distributes leading-edge market-risk models and software-based tools. With offices in five countries and models for every major market it offers true international risk management across all asset classes. APTs corporate focus is developing their leading edge risk models, providing attractive and functional software, and continuing research into the best optimization methods available for use in finance. The companys offices in New York, London, Paris, Johannesburg, Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney are linked through sites on the Internet at www.apt.com.
Email: Click here
Risk Management/US & North America
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CheckFundManager.com
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BJ Desmond
VP Risk Management Investigations
28 North Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107 USA
+1 860.666.9595
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Specialty: CheckFundManager conducts background investigations on hedge funds and fund managers. Identify fraud and avoid undue risk. Thousands of funds researched. We are the largest provider of investigative services in the industry. Call for a report sample and access to the report database.
Email: Click here
Risk Management/Asia Europe Latin America Offshore US & North America
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Corporate Resolutions Inc.
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Ken Springer, President
Don Klaskin, Managing Director
17 West 24th Street
4th Floor
New York NY 10010 USA
212-691-3800
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Specialty: Corporate Resolutions Inc.(CRI) conducts a variety of background fact gathering investigations for fund of funds, hedge funds, venture capital & buyout firms, banks, law firms and others. CRI also conducts corporate fraud, labor/employment and computer forensics investigations as well as provides systems & facilities security assessments. Corporate Resolutions Inc., founded in 1991, is a New York City based international business investigations firm formed by and staffed with former FBI agents, intelligence analysts and white-collar crime investigators. CRI has additional offices in Boston and London and operates through a network of 3,000 vetted national and international investigative correspondents.
Email: Click here
Risk Management/Asia Europe Latin America Offshore US & North America
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Fortress Global Investigations & Security
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Robert W. Seiden
President & CEO
350 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10118 USA
212-725-7500
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Specialty: Fortress Global Investigations (www.FortressGlobal.com) is a worldwide leader in due diligence background checks and risk management. The company, managed by retired FBI, CIA and DEA agents and former prosecutors, works with financial institutions ranging from hedge funds and private equity firms to banks and brokerage houses providing a full range of solutions, most often in the form of due diligence investigative service. While Fortress Global is experienced in conducting due diligence of all types, our specialty is in international due diligence and obtaining difficult to come by information to allow our clients to make informed business decisions. We perform hundred of due diligence background checks per year in the U.S., off-shore and in almost every country in the world.
Email: Click here
Risk Management/Offshore US & North America
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The Lipper HedgeWorld Expo 2006 Fund Services Expo was a success. We thank our sponsors and attendees for their participation.
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Investigative Consultants International, LLC
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Diana Moneta
President
545 Eighth Avenue
New York NY 10018 USA
212.594.5900
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Specialty: Investigative Consultants International, LLC is a risk management and investigations firm. The ICI team is most thorough, fast, inexpensive,and great to work with. Consider us your firm's background check department.
Email: Click here
Risk Management/Asia Europe Latin America Offshore US & North America
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Kandas
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Dr. James Medou
Ch. d'Eysins, 53B
1260 Nyon
Switzerland
+41-22 365 1970
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Specialty: Kandas-ISIS platform provides a generic solution to asset allocation and risk-management challenges in the fund of funds business. It combines complex analytics (e.g. Non-Gaussian risk measures, Factor models, Monte-Carlo simulations and Stochastic optimisations) and flexible reporting (www.kandas.com).
Email: Click here
Risk Management/Europe
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NCO Financial Systems, Inc.
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Paul Morrow, Jr. / Lenora Meche
Sr. Investigative Consultant
507 Prudential Rd.
Horsham PA 19044 USA
215-441-2428 / 504-837-6320 x 3165
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Specialty: In the wake of recent corporate and accounting scandals, effective due diligence is no longer just an option for the wise. The effective gathering of intelligence and the systematic elimination of unknown variables mitigates the risk inherent in any marketplace and provides greater assurance of the survival and success of any venture. NCO Financial Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive due diligence for the alternative and institutional investment market. Our services include, but are not limited to, direct courthouse research, regulatory agency searches and discreet background inquiries. Our research methods are meticulous; our standards are exacting; our reach is global.
Email: Click here
Risk Management/Asia Europe Latin America Offshore US & North America
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The Lipper HedgeWorld Expo 2006 Fund Services Expo was a success. We thank our sponsors and attendees for their participation.
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Scherzer International
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Claire H. Irving
Vice President
28 West 44th Street
Suite 1519
New York NY 10036-6600 USA
212-382-1179
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Specialty: Character counts more than ever in today's legal and regulatory environment. Investigating the backgrounds and representations of companies and people with whom you wish to transact business has become a risk-management imperative. We offer a Money Manager Report, Corporate & Management/Financial Report as well as a variety of Targeted Investigation Products.
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Risk Management/US & North America
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TLM Consulting Group
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Tracey M. Frederick, Esq.
Chief Executive Officer
P.O. Box 1482
Southeastern PA 19399 USA
(610) 574-7491
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Specialty: TLM Consulting Group (TCG) is your comprehensive resource for domestic and international due diligence, background investigations and business intelligence. For more information please visit us at www.tlmconsultinggroup.com
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Risk Management/Asia Europe Latin America Offshore US & North America
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Xagua Consulting Services
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Bin Bulsara
Managing Director
505 Teal Plaza
Secaucus NJ 07094 USA
1-877-258-9105
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Specialty: Xagua Consulting Services offers outsourced operational due diligence services. We conduct comprehensive due diligence services for experienced hedge fund investors on their current or potential hedge fund investments.
Email: Click here
Risk Management/Asia Europe Latin America Offshore US & North America
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