Long-Term Capital Management was the most dramatic example of a hedge fund going belly up.
In the same period, UBS was also hopelessly entangled with Long-Term Capital Management.
On the contrary, investors flocked to Long-Term Capital Management, which he set up after leaving Salomon.
For others, the number-crunching crowd conjures up painful images of Long-Term Capital Management, the band of Ph.
Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, was run by highly experienced traders and economists.
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In September, the Federal Reserve co-ordinated a rescue of Long-Term Capital Management, a big hedge fund facing collapse.
That's what sank Long-Term Capital Management three years ago, nearly taking down the whole bond market with it.
McDonough sparked controversy in 1998 when he assembled 14 banks to bail out the collapsing hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.
He featured prominently in Goldman's negotiations with fellow investment banks to bail out hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998.
The collapse of two hedge funds, Long-Term Capital Management in 1998 and Amaranth Advisors in 2006, were cases in point.
Keep in mind that brokerage houses are just as leveraged as was Long-Term Capital Management, at about 25-to-1 debt-to- capital ratios.
But for Ian Stewart, the story of Black-Scholes - and of Long-Term Capital Management - is a kind of morality tale.
Ever since the demise of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, regulators have worried that banks might lend too much to individual funds.
This happened notoriously a year ago, when Long-Term Capital Management ran into trouble and had to be bailed out by its bankers.
But ten years ago the Fed helped organise the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund (although no public money was involved).
That is a larger premium even than during the financial crisis caused by the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in the autumn of 1998.
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This mythical financial security first entered the investment lexicon after the crisis in 1998 over the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund.
The idea behind Long-Term Capital Management was that pricing anomalies in the market could be picked up with the help of sophisticated quantitative analysis.
Then came the Russian debt crisis and Long-Term Capital Management's demise.
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And in 1998, Russia's default led to the near-collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, a hugely leveraged hedge fund, and caused huge losses for other leveraged investors.
Ten years ago this month, the New York Fed orchestrated the orderly unwinding of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, which foundered on exposures to Russian government bonds.
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Only last autumn, the Fed had to save world finance by masterminding the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund, and cutting interest rates three times.
Our favorites: Joe Torre, the former Yankees manager now signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and John Meriwether, the former head of notorious hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.
Yet spreads between junk bonds and Treasury bonds are at their widest since the 1991 recession, wider even than in October 1998 when Long-Term Capital Management nearly collapsed.
It was this kind of violent and sudden volatility that caused the highly leveraged Long-Term Capital Management fund to require a bailout by Wall Street institutions in the fall of 1998.
Given the way the rating agencies dropped the ball in Asia last year (and despite Long-Term Capital Management's near-collapse), it's no surprise that interest in quantitative models is rising.
The markets struggled to cope with financial crises in Asia and Russia in the late 1990s and with the implosion of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund, in 1998.
But the limit to such an approach lies in the imagination almost nobody dreamt of what happened to Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund that nearly went under last autumn.
The third came in 1998 when the long-term capital management debacle and Russia's default sent low-grade bond prices plummeting, crushing high-debt REITs like Criimi Mae and Laser Mortgage Management with margin calls.
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