REVISIT - Investment Funds: Should You Hear Alarm Bells?
WOWOWOW - February 9, 2009

Any one of these nine warning signs alarm the savviest money managers in the world. While nothing may be amiss, these signs should be checked out (Click link above for more):

* A cult figure with no independent third party to verify his claims.

* The fund can hang onto your money.

* No-name banks and accountants.

* Poor transparency.

* No visible risk controls.

* Lots of borrowing.

* A single strategy.

* Unlimited expenses

* Won’t answer questions.


JT Note: For my friends at: WOWOWOW

Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), and
Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (John Wiley & Sons January 2009)


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