Financial Forensics: The Due Diligence Files
Sergio StiebenForensic dissection of capital markets collapses. Not headlines — mechanisms. How money moved. Where structures broke. T1 — Full autopsy. The collapse, the actors, the moment nobody stopped it. T2 — GP/LP room. 3 red flags in the documents. Due diligence questions. Active parallels in deals running today. For allocators, GPs, and fund professionals. Hosted by Sergio Stieben — 15 years in GP/LP rel... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 314 | Founded | 3 months ago |
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Why do delayed regulatory resolutions make long-tail insurance insolvencies exponentially larger? While balance sheet giants like General Electric absorbed long-term care mispricing as earnings charges, standalone carriers face outright liquidation. ... more
In 2009, Pennsylvania regulators placed Penn Treaty Network America into formal rehabilitation after identifying massive long-term care insurance underpricing. A 2012 court decision unexpectedly rejected the initial liquidation petition, allowing the... more
How can a multi-billion dollar liability sit disclosed in public filings for over a decade and still catch institutional markets off guard? Unlike cases involving undisclosed entities or hidden control relationships, GE Capital’s long-term care expos... more
In January 2018, General Electric stunned public markets by taking a $9.5 billion pretax charge and committing $15 billion in capital to re-reserve a legacy long-term care (LTC) insurance block it had stopped writing a decade earlier. This financial ... more
In early 2015, Valeant Pharmaceuticals reported that volume was driving earnings, yet internal quarterly data revealed that roughly 80% of growth stemmed from price increases. Shortly after peaking at a $90 billion market capitalization, Valeant’s st... more
Every part of Valeant’s aggressive pricing model was visible, but the mechanism making those prices collectible was concealed. This GP and LP institutional analysis deconstructs Valeant’s undisclosed control over Philidor Rx Services to evaluate rela... more
In a nine-figure acquisition, if the target's own auditor has certified its numbers for years, what exactly is the deal team independently verifying versus agreeing to trust a second time? This GP and LP institutional analysis deconstructs the struct... more
Eleven point one billion dollars changed hands for an enterprise software company, yet a massive share of its reported revenue was computer hardware sold at a loss and booked under a software license label. Thirteen months after the deal closed, Hewl... more
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A rigorous, data-driven examination of high-profile financial collapses and frauds, with a focus on how complex governance gaps, independent verification failures, and incentive structures allow losses to escalate. Across episodes, the analysis dissects three interlocking failure modes—front-to-back office misalignment, opaque funding/transactions, and profit-driven narratives—that turn near-misses into long-running crises. The host translates archival cases into practical due diligence questions for GP/LP managers, risk teams, and auditors, providing concrete controls and checklists to spot similar patterns in today's deals. Noteworthy is the methodical autopsy approach, the clear emphasis on structure and process over headlines, and the e... more
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