Education
In this episode, we cover fraud and forensic accounting and some of the biggest challenges within the finance industry for new investors.My guest is Stephen Clapham, a retired hedge fund partner and the founder of Behind the Balance Sheet, a London-based investment research and training consultancy, which produces bespoke research to private investors and institutions. Stephen is an author of The Smart Money Method: How to pick stocks like a hedge fund pro. He spent 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, II 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; he specialised in using a deep-dive research approach to identify special situation opportunities.He is regularly featured in the press, including the Financial Times, the Times, Sunday Times and City AM and on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and Real Vision, talking about accounting issues at quoted companies.