Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) was a hedge fund management firm[1] based in Greenwich, Connecticut that used absolute-return trading strategies combined with high financial leverage. LTCM was founded in 1994 by John W. Meriwether, the former vice-chairman and head of bond trading at Salomon Brothers. Members of LTCM's board of directors included Myron S. Scholes and Robert C. Merton, who shared the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a "new method to determine the value of derivatives".[2] Initially successful with annualized return of over 21% (after fees) in its first year, 43% in the second year and 41% in the third year, in 1998 it lost $4.6 billion in less than four months following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 1998 Russian financial crisis.[citation needed] The firm's master hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Portfolio L.P., collapsed in the late 1990s, leading to an agreement on September 23, 1998, among 14 financial institutions[3]—which included Bankers Trust, Barclays, Chase Manhattan Bank, Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Paribas, Salomon Smith Barney, Société Générale, and UBS—for a $3.6 billion recapitalization (bailout) under the supervision of the Federal Reserve. The fund liquidated and dissolved in early 2000. anyone remember LTCM from 1998 or at least read the book about them...
What is the actuality or significance today? Yes, we read the book (When genius failed), saw the movies (Youtube), what do you want to know? TL: Hubris kills.
Great book....if hedge funds are facing the same type of problems due to the massive sell off then they deserve to implode and get reamed.
The Fed is tapped out and most banks are on tilt...look for many, many, "lending" institutions to fail while 90% of hedge funds will implode....
I lived & traded thru LTCM... some of the greatest Short trade opportunities of my life...Great book ... Roger Lowenstein really nailed it... coincidentally, I pulled this book off the shelf last week & started reading it again , as the times reminded me of the cherished late 90`s!