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“Digging for Disclosure” – new book provides investors with secrets to search tools for investigating possible investment partners

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

From Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York:

Even with additional regulation and moves towards greater transparency, the fact that financial markets work on the exploitation of opportunity have (and will) always make them a murky place. Just this week Savvas Savouri, Partner and Chief Economist at top hedge fund firm Toscafund, said the financial services industry is practically lawless (Source). And so when a former FBI Special Agent is willing to share tools of the trade in order to help investors gather the most and the best information about those they are partnering with, it is prudent to take note.

In their new book, “Digging for Disclosure: Tactics for Protecting Your Firm's Assets from Swindlers, Scammers, and Imposters”, Kenneth Springer, Founder of Corporate Resolutions and Joelle Scott, Director of Business Intelligence at the firm, take readers through multiple fictionalized case studies of work they have done for clients in the past. Springer, who was an FBI Agent prior to his work in corporate America has incorporated newly available search engines with traditional investigative tools and while at the FBI built an internal database of agents and their sources, and al......................

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