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Before the financial crisis of 2008 to 2009, the standard AIMA and MFA due diligence questionnaire templates were often deployed defensively: managers used the old versions to steer investors away from questions that would have exposed weaknesses in the managers' controls.

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The old versions of those questionnaires were often used in an attempt to avoid investors' questions challenging the manager on possible weaknesses in their controls.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Investor Due Diligence – Evidence from 1995 to 2015 (2016), I. Introduction, p. 7
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Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Investor Due Diligence – Evidence from 1995 to 2015 (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811718

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