After the financial crisis of 2008 to 2009 and the Madoff scandal, relatively sophisticated investors stopped accepting the slanted phrasing of due diligence questionnaires and their answers, and the questionnaires became more rigorous as a result.
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including the Madoff scandal, investors, at least relatively sophisticated investors, no longer accepted the slanted phrasing of the due diligence questionnaires and their answers.13 As a result, the questionnaires became more rigorous.
Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Investor Due Diligence – Evidence from 1995 to 2015 (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811718
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