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      • LTCM's highly leveraged nature, coupled with a financial crisis in Russia, led the hedge fund to sustain massive losses and be in danger of defaulting on its own loans. This made it difficult for LTCM to cut its losses in its positions.
  1. Dec 19, 2023 · Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) was a large hedge fund, led by Nobel Prize-winning economists and renowned Wall Street traders, that blew up in 1998, forcing the U.S. government to...

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  3. 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]

  4. Jan 27, 2022 · Long-Term Capital Management was a massive hedge fund with $126 billion in assets. It almost collapsed in late 1998. If it had, that would have set off a global financial crisis.

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  5. Nov 22, 2013 · On September 23, 1998, a group of fourteen banks and brokerage firms invested $3.6 billion in Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) to prevent the firm’s imminent collapse. The capital infusion forestalled a fire sale of LTCM assets into already turbulent markets and instead allowed for an orderly liquidation of the hedge fund’s holdings.

  6. 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.

  7. Sep 25, 2023 · The Long-Term Capital Management collapse—which led to an unprecedented rescue by the Fed—was 25 years ago. Heard on the Street revisited that crisis with a three-part series that wrapped...

  8. Sep 10, 2018 · Significant failures in risk management by LTCM and, more important, by many of its large and sophisticated counterparties, were highlighted by the LTCM episode as were gaps in regulating certain financial practices and products such as over-the-counter (“OTC”) derivatives.

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