Financial Times Guide to Investing in Funds, The
How to Select Investments, Assess Managers and Protect Your Wealth
The FT Guides Series

Learn how to evaluate any investment fund before deciding where to place your money so you can ensure you generate more wealth and protect your cash.

This valuable guide will help you make the right investment decisions by:

- Explaining the procedures that should be followed before investing money anywhere.

- Helping you cut through marketing language to get a real sense of how risky a company?s strategy may be.

- Showing you what questions to ask of investment fund managers so you?re more comfortable investing in a company.

- Showing you how to recognise the warning signs of risky investments.

This book will also help you identify companies who consistently deliver high returns, thereby allowing you to generate more wealth by investing in successful, and stable, funds.

1. Introduction

2. The Manager

3. The Fund

4. The Prospectus

5. Governance

6. Service Providers

7. Front and Back Office Operations

8. Investment Process and Products

9. Risk Management

10. Compliance

11. Background Checks

12. Conclusion

Jérôme de Lavenère Lussanis the founder and managing director of Laven Partners – and investment management consultant whose specialism is operational due diligence on investment companies. Laven Partners has recently won the ‘Best Regulatory Advisory Firm 2009’, awarded by Hedge Fund Manager magazine.

Jérôme trained as a lawyer and worked at Jones Day before running a hedge fund: this has given him the detailed understanding of how an investment management business works.

Jérôme has taught on courses for Financial Times Knowledge and Euromoney. He also participates in in-house training for FT journalists, known as ‘FT Business Masterclass’.

He’s frequently interviewed for market comments and recently appeared on Bloomberg TV.

• A valuable guide that will help readers make the right investment decisions by:
  - Explaining theprocedures that should be followed by anyone before investing money anywhere.
  - Helping readers cut through marketing language to get a real sense of how risky a company’s strategy may be.
  - Showing readers what questions to ask of investment fund managers to make them more comfortable in investing in a company.
  - Shows readers the warning flags to look for
• This book will help identify those companies who consistently deliver high returns, thereby allowing readers to generate more wealth by investing in successful and stable, funds.
• Author Jérôme Lussan is a well known name in the hedge fund, legal and investing world. He’s well connected and is frequently name checked in the media which will help generate publicity for the book.