Hedge fund investor forces independent valuations

Friday 25 September 2009 at 06:25

The hedge funds investor, founded by prominent manager Aprad Busson, has become the latest of its peers to insist that portfolios it invests in must be valued by independent agents, rather than relying on managers to do it themselves.

Investors have increasingly pushed for independent fund valuation by administrators in part due to pressure from their own clients to do so, and as part of beefing up risk controls after frauds and portfolio mispricings including that perpetrated by conman Bernard Madoff.