I'm sure it didn't escape them. But over and over again I've seen that those that have had a huge run tend to get treated differently despite what prudence would suggest. Let me add to that I'm sure everyone knew that they were in big trouble long before the actual blowup. There was just no out except a turn in the market. From what I have gathered from the news reports, other big buck groups shot their lights out betting against them once it was realized that they were overleveraged in a illiquid market.
He could buy inflation-linked bonds, or just emigrate to the Bahamas. Besides, when you have tens of millions, who cares about the interest? Live off the capital, baby.
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Amaranthâs Golden Goose That Laid An Egg December 2006 DailyII.com Amaranth Advisors has paid the price for putting a lot of its eggs in one basket in more ways than one. The Connecticut-based firm that famously lost $6.6 billion not only kept too much of its bets in energy at the wrong time, but now it is emerging that it handed over control of too much of its assets to just one person â Brian Hunter, according to Bloomberg News. Amaranth could have possibly avoided disaster, says BN, had founder Nicholas Mauonis let the energy whiz Hunter take a million-dollar bait cast in April 2005 by HF guru Steven Cohen to move to Greenwich, Conn.-based SAC Capital Advisors. To keep Hunter, BN reports, Mauonis made him co-head of Amaranthâs energy desk, let him control his own trades and then eventually entrusted half of the firmâs assets to his nimble brain. The beginning of the end for Amaranth, notes BN, came when the firm lost money from its credit bets after Standard & Poorâs cut General Motors and Ford Motorsâ credit ratings. Maounis turned to Hunter to âdo something,â since he was making money hand over fist from his natural-gas bets â especially after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita swept into the Southeast and Hunterâs investments made $1 billion as a result. Investors and some staffers saw a natural-gas bet disaster in the making, and tried to pull their money, but, as BN says, it was too late for many. âAmaranthâs demise is not due to some complicated quantitative reason,â Hank Higdon of New York-based recruiter Higdon Partners told Bloomberg News. âItâs about human failing and frailty.â