These investigations involve tracing and identifying the assets of a particular entity or individual. This includes locating land holdings, real estate, stocks, company shareholdings and other business interests, inventory, financial resources, vehicles and others.

Asset searches are useful in situations of loan or credit default, in insolvency proceedings, in company valuations and assessments in the cases of new partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, as well as circumstantial evidence in cases of embezzlement, white collar crime, misappropriation of funds and assets, etc.