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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management is a book by Roger Lowenstein published by Random House on October 9, 2000. The book tells an unauthorized account of the creation, early success, abrupt collapse, and rushed bailout of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM). LTCM was a tightly held American hedge fund founded ...
Richard Driehaus. Richard Herman Driehaus (/ ˈdriːhaʊs /; July 28, 1942 – March 9, 2021) [ 1 ][ 2 ] was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder, chief investment officer, and chairman of the hedge fund, Driehaus Capital Management LLC, based in Chicago.
Bear Stearns. The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was an American investment bank, securities trading, and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession. After its closure it was subsequently sold to JPMorgan Chase. The company's main business areas before its failure were capital markets ...
Financial services Investment management. Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) was a highly leveraged hedge fund. In 1998, it received a $3.6 billion bailout from a group of 14 banks, in a deal brokered and put together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [ 1 ]
Myron Samuel Scholes (/ ʃ oʊ l z / SHOHLZ; [1] born July 1, 1941) is a Canadian–American financial economist.Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black–Scholes options pricing model.
Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especially the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model. [2][3][4] In ...
Headquarters of AIG, an insurance company rescued by the United States government during the subprime mortgage crisis "Too big to fail" (TBTF) is a theory in banking and finance that asserts that certain corporations, particularly financial institutions, are so large and so interconnected that their failure would be disastrous to the greater economic system, and therefore should be supported ...
Henry Calvert Simons. Henry Calvert Simons (/ ˈsaɪmənz /; October 9, 1899 – June 19, 1946) was an American economist at the University of Chicago. A protégé of Frank Knight, [ 1 ] his antitrust and monetarist models influenced the Chicago school of economics. He was a founding author of the Chicago plan for monetary reform that found ...