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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
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.
从我本科的时候,教授们就反对一切本科生打着学术旗号写那些股票定价模型的论文,并往往以Long-term capital作为例子。随着公司的崩塌和金融危机的来临,诸如B-S模型受到了更多的质疑。可是人家从来没说过模型能预测黑天鹅,平稳状态下还是挣钱的啊
评分readable and insightful history of LTCM
评分Nothing genius about the story
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评分就是看得太痛苦了……因为有deadline所以一直在拼死地看……毕竟看英文书的速度比不上看中文书啊……
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...
评分这本书英文原版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,把枯燥的事件变成了...
评分这本书英文原版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...
评分索罗斯曾经说过,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...
评分这本书英文原版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,把枯燥的事件变成了...
When Genius Failed pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025