So, in that sense, LTCM was a warning that we didn't understand or didn't take heed of. LTCM was one hedge fund, with not a lot of people, with a lot of borrowing, whose failure threatened the ...

Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) was a large hedge fund led by Nobel Prize-winning economists and renowned Wall Street traders. LTCM was profitable in its heyday and by the spring of 1998, drew ...

The 1998 meltdown of Long-Term Capital Management was a singular debacle. Markets around the globe plunged and the financial system itself seemed in peril -- all on account of a tiny band of ...

Home Peter Brimelow Peter Brimelow On watch for the next LTCM Commentary: Bridgewater's disturbing predictions By Peter Brimelow , MarketWatch Published: May 11, 2006, 12:01 a.m. ET Share ...

For answers, look back to LTCM.As it became clear that the magnitude of LTCM's problem was huge and that unwinding its positions could put severe strains on financial markets, the president of the ...

The demise of the firm, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), was swift and sudden. In less than one year, LTCM had lost $4.4 billion of its $4.7 billion in capital.

My LTCM experience is a constant reminder that investment managers have much less control over returns than we would like, Haghani, 53, says. We do, however, have complete control over what we charge, ...

A Former LTCM Partner Embraces Indexing, and Says You Should Too Victor Haghani, veteran of a hedge fund that collapsed spectacularly in 1998, makes a forceful case for the merits of passive ...

Ex-LTCM founder Victor Haghani has filed for an ETF, joining a string of wealth managers and strategists who have recently put their names behind the popular investment vehicle.

Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) is a hedge fund in Greenwich, [Conn.], which really no one had heard of except for the Wall Street cognoscenti. It had fewer than 200 employees, had 16 partners ...