When Genius Failed

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Roger Lowenstein (born in 1954) is an American financial journalist and writer. He graduated from Cornell University and reported for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, including two years writing its Heard on the Street column, 1989 to 1991. Born in 1954, he is the son of Helen and Louis Lowenstein of Larchmont, N.Y. Lowenstein is married to Judith Slovin.

He is also a director of Sequoia Fund. His father, the late Louis Lowenstein, was an attorney and Columbia University law professor who wrote books and articles critical of the American financial industry.

Roger Lowenstein's latest book, America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve (The Penguin Press) was released on October 20, 2015.

He has three children and lives in Westfield, New Jersey.

出版者:Random House Inc.
作者:Roger Lowenstein
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页数:288
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出版时间:2001-10-9
价格:16.00美元
装帧:平装
isbn号码:9780375758256
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图书标签:
  • 金融 
  • Finance 
  • 华尔街 
  • LTCM 
  • 对冲基金 
  • 投资 
  • 美国 
  • 案例 
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On September 23, 1998, the boardroom of the New York Fed was a tense place. Around the table sat the heads of every major Wall Street bank, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and representatives from numerous European banks, each of whom had been summoned to discuss a highly unusual prospect: rescuing what had, until then, been the envy of them all, the extraordinarily successful bond-trading firm of Long-Term Capital Management. Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed is the gripping story of the Fed's unprecedented move, the incredible heights reached by LTCM, and the firm's eventual dramatic demise.

Lowenstein, a financial journalist and author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, examines the personalities, academic experts, and professional relationships at LTCM and uncovers the layers of numbers behind its roller-coaster ride with the precision of a skilled surgeon. The fund's enigmatic founder, John Meriwether, spent almost 20 years at Salomon Brothers, where he formed its renowned Arbitrage Group by hiring academia's top financial economists. Though Meriwether left Salomon under a cloud of the SEC's wrath, he leapt into his next venture with ease and enticed most of his former Salomon hires--and eventually even David Mullins, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve--to join him in starting a hedge fund that would beat all hedge funds.

LTCM began trading in 1994, after completing a road show that, despite the Ph.D.-touting partners' lack of social skills and their disdainful condescension of potential investors who couldn't rise to their intellectual level, netted a whopping $1.25 billion. The fund would seek to earn a tiny spread on thousands of trades, "as if it were vacuuming nickels that others couldn't see," in the words of one of its Nobel laureate partners, Myron Scholes. And nickels it found. In its first two years, LTCM earned $1.6 billion, profits that exceeded 40 percent even after the partners' hefty cuts. By the spring of 1996, it was holding $140 billion in assets. But the end was soon in sight, and Lowenstein's detailed account of each successively worse month of 1998, culminating in a disastrous August and the partners' subsequent panicked moves, is riveting.

The arbitrageur's world is a complicated one, and it might have served Lowenstein well to slow down and explain in greater detail the complex terms of the more exotic species of investment flora that cram the book's pages. However, much of the intrigue of the Long-Term story lies in its dizzying pace (not to mention the dizzying amounts of money won and lost in the fund's short lifespan). Lowenstein's smooth, conversational but equally urgent tone carries it along well. The book is a compelling read for those who've always wondered what lay behind the Fed's controversial involvement with the LTCM hedge-fund debacle. --S. Ketchum

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这本书英文原版2000年就有了,中文版06年又重版了。但不知为什么这本书在豆瓣上没有,于是我就加上了,顺便再写点推荐的文字。   推荐这本书基于两种推荐:其一,这本书作为书写一段历史——一个公司和一群人的历史是成功的,非常好读,还把事情描述得很清楚,把枯燥的...  

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索罗斯曾经说过,凡是人类构建的东西,都有着天然的巨大缺陷。尤其是金融市场,最易出现崩溃。这次美国次贷危机,给他的这一认识提供了最新的佐证,华尔街的最大清算银行贝尔斯登在两周内沦陷,当年每股数百美元的股价今天只能以2美元卖给了摩根,因为摩根认为他的净资产值...  

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读《赌金者》一书,竟耗去了一个半月。为里面的几个关键点环节深深感慨。读一个真实的具体的案例,远胜于读十本理论书。又感到作者罗格•洛温斯坦那孜孜不倦的钻研精神,打破沙煲纹到底的锲而不舍的精神,书里本着务求真实的精神,不妄加作者的主观臆想,而能把故事如同历史...  

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Lowenstein是典型的journalist的写作风格,讲一个故事,每逢一个人物出现就絮絮叨叨的要把这个人物的小学经历开始说一遍。看你喜不喜欢这个风格了,不大的一件事情,可以被他写的很长,而且都是成熟性质的话。我是无爱的。LTCM这个故事其实一篇长文就可以解决的,被他搞得非常...  

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终于读完了,写的生动。

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记不住英文人名。。。。。啊啊啊啊啊啊~~~~对技术性的东西描述的太少了

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好书!看得我心潮澎湃的~

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今年读过的最好的商业书籍,对LTCM的兴起与衰落进行了完整复盘。虽然作者很cynical,但既未为LTCM文过饰非,也没有落井下石地对他们进行不公正的道德指责,忠实记录了LTCM如何在成功投资后过于迷信自己的model而丢掉了谨慎,在贪婪和业绩压力下步入自己不熟悉的risk arbitrage领域投下重注,genius们的分歧、冲突,overuse the leverage on interest swaps,直到黑天鹅的出现导致credit spread飙升,市场走势和模型预测完全相反,满盘皆输,最终被高盛敲下了棺材上的最后一根钉子。

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与08年的危机相比,LTCM的破产只不过是金融市场上很快会被人遗忘的一个小插曲。不过Merton和Scholes的参与还是让它有了独特的讽刺意义:1997年两人因为金融的贡献得诺奖,1998年LTCM被bailout。

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