In our latest Coffee and a Conversation, Vidrio's Willett Bird met with Kamal Suppal, Chief Investment Auditor of the Boston-based, Emerging Markets Alternatives. The two discussed the nuances of conducting due diligence on...
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Coffee and a Conversation Recap #1: Zoom Diligence
Nov 30, 2020 10:48:07 PM
Appropriately, we kicked off our new virtual Coffee and a Conversation series with a discussion about remote due diligence meetings, aka Zoom Diligence, and presented ideas for allocators who must now adapt their processes to...
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Excel in Finance - More than a Tempest in a Teapot
Nov 5, 2020 5:07:07 PM
It has been more than 35 years since Microsoft Excel (originally for the Macintosh!) was first introduced to the world. Yet here we are in 2020 and there are firms across the globe that still use Excel to support at least some...
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Adapting Investment Management Workflows to the “New Normal”
Oct 29, 2020 10:45:06 AM
“Workflow” has become an in-vogue term in recent years, generally defined as the sequence of repeatable processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion. For fund allocators, workflows are employed...