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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Story of Failure of the First Hedge Fund
The fund was established by the quantitative financiers also known as Quants, who use leverage to maximize the yield on the investment while hedging the possible risks.
Eric Rosenfeld
a principal of
Long-Term Capital Management
(LTCM) talks at
MIT
about the failure this
hedge fund
. The fund was bailed out by
Alan Greenspan
.
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