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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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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终于读完了,写的生动。

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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

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后人哀之而不鉴之,亦使后人而复哀后人也

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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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终于读完了,写的生动。

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