Title: Hedge hogs : the cowboy traders behind wall street's largest hedge fund disaster /
Authors: Dreyfuss, Barbara.
Publisher: Random House,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hedge funds.; Investment advisors.; Hedge funds; Investment advisors
Abstract: At its peak, hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC had more than $9 billion in assets. A few weeks later, it completely collapsed. The disaster was largely triggered by one man: hotshot trader Brian Hunter. His high-risk bets on natural gas prices bankrupted his firm and destroyed his career, while John Arnold, his rival at competitor fund Centaurus, emerged as the highest-paid trader on Wall Street. A riveting fly-on-the-wall account of the largest hedge fund collapse in history: a blistering tale of the recent past that explains our precarious present-- and may predict our future.
Contents: Going all in -- The man from Calgary -- Lone Star gambler -- A fund for everyone -- Amaranth -- Widow maker -- Pitching to grandma -- The $100 million man -- King of gas -- Paying the (inflated) tab -- "Gonna get our faces ripped off" -- Pump and dump -- $6 billion squeeze -- "You're done".