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I know quite a few people within the FoF industry, but don't take my word too seriously.

The feeling I got from what they have described was that besides the typical performance, outlook, style, assets, liquidity risk, leverage, personnel updates and newly released audited financials/offering materials... idiosyncratic and systematic risks are the main worry, besides tail risk events for obvious reasons. And that the risk team's major focus before even considering a fund manager is separating the alpha from the beta within the fund's historical returns.

Take a look at this paper: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/fimrc/papers/risk_measure…

[quote]The HBS guys have MAD SWAGGER. They frequently wear their class jackets to boston bars, strutting and acting like they own the joint. They just ooze success, confidence, swagger, basically attributes of alpha males.[/quote]
 

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