The Red Flag Group has a package of solutions available for fund managers. This is likely to be of particular interest to longer-term investors as well as managers of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds.
 

We recognise that fund managers currently source research on various aspects of their target companies, typically industry research, competitive analysis or financial analysis. However, increasingly the quality of the target's management team, their background and industry profile, their sense of values and integrity and their corporate governance structures play an important role in the success of the company, and ultimately your investment.
 

Our research focuses on specific data points, information and attention to historical and present-day issues around governance, ethics, integrity and compliance. Our reports enable fund managers to assess the health of the target company and develop additional insights into the long-term sustainability of the company's business.
 

Our solutions include:

• validation of the company shareholders, principals and management
• independent background checks on senior management, with a focus on identifying key risks around connections to government officials and their overall integrity risks
• independent integrity profiling and reputational testing of the company and its leaders
• politically exposed persons and state owned company screening
• an industry and country risk profile assessment of the company
• site visit and facility verification
• compliance interviews with senior personnel
• a review of "tone at the top", company code of conduct and ethics and the company's corporate governance principles, rules and procedures.
   

Our investigation teams are often called upon to review and develop history and background details on key personnel in subject entities. These can be in areas such as:

• other directorships and company ownership interests held
• litigation history and background
• past history of involvement with negative, failed or non-compliant companies
• general history and background.
   

Through our "on-the-ground" experience as compliance counsel, in-house counsel and due diligence experts, we can supplement your research with additional information that ordinarily may not be available or assessed.

We are skilled at taking research and intelligence from our enquiries and applying a level of assessment based on our knowledge of the markets (which are most often emerging markets that lack transparency), the industry of the target and the nature of their operations. Our service is truly adding value to your investment decision, rather than providing lengthy reports of publicly available information which is mostly repetitive and of little use.
 

Additional solutions are available around:

• compliance audits
• compliance issue remediation
• compliance training
• compliance programme implementation
   

Some of our solutions are supported by our partner firm, Enzard, that sources independent research for fund managers globally. Working with  Enzard, our solutions are specifically calibrated by experts with over 20 years experience in the finance industry.

These solutions are available to assess their social responsibility (SR) standards. This includes:

• SR policy review and assessment
• ongoing training to the board and management on SR ethics and compliance
• SR ethics and compliance audits and assessments
• annual certifications.

For more information, you can also contact Enzard via: Email: research-management@enzard.com    

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Address: 1285 Avenue of the Americas, 35th Floor, New York, USA