We welcome back Stephen Clapham, founder of Behind the Balance Sheet to talk on:
HOW TO HANDLE THE COVID CRISIS: FORENSIC ACCOUNTING IN A PANDEMIC
Stephen Clapham, founder of Behind the Balance Sheet, has been in the press on City AM and on BBC Radio 4 Today programme, talking about how earnings manipulation and fraud among companies is on the rise.
Steve is the founder of Behind the Balance Sheet (website www.behindthebalancesheet.com), an investment research consultancy, which produces bespoke research for a small group of institutional clients. Steve recently started a training business which is focused on improving institutional equity investors analytical skills. Steve spent more than 20 years as an equity analyst at different investment banks, covering various sectors, and was consistently rated in the top 10 in his sector in Extel, Institutional Investor and Reuters surveys. He moved to the buy-side in 2005 and was a partner and head of research at two multi-billion dollar hedge funds, based in London; he specialised in using a deep dive research approach to identify special situation opportunities.
Steve has also worked with a $5bn+ AUM wealth management firm, picking international equities, running high return concentrated global equity portfolios and sitting on the main Investment Committees.