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Ethics & accountability · Calling out concerns to leadership

You notice a senior analyst's returns are suspiciously smooth and consistently just beat the benchmark, and the valuations on a few illiquid holdings look aggressive. Raising it implicates someone the CIO clearly favors. What do you do?

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Smooth returns on illiquid marks are exactly the pattern that should trigger a look, so I don't let the analyst's standing with the CIO talk me out of raising it — but I raise it a

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