Investment banking firm Duff & Phelps has appointed Alan Swersky as a director in the portfolio valuation service line and head of the firm’s operational and risk due diligence group, based in the New York office. 

Duff & Phelps’ operational and risk due diligence practice provides investors with a third party assessment of their hedge fund managers’ operating policies and procedures.  

Swersky has spent a majority of his career in the alternative asset management community. 

Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, he was global head of operational due diligence at Olympia Capital Management, a Paris-based fund of funds with USD3bn in assets under management. 

Swersky has also served as a vice president of accounting and operations at Weiss Peck and Greer, a New York investment adviser. He has audited hedge funds and fund of funds, having started his hedge fund career as an auditor with Goldstein Golub Kessler.