COMPANY

Hedge fund, founded 1994. After substantial growth in its first few years, it suffered an astonishing loss of $4.6B in 1998, causing a bailout coordinated by the Federal Reserve in order to prevent a panic. The firm folded in 2000.

Industry:
Private Equity

Corporate headquarters:
Greenwich, CT

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John W. Meriwether	Business	10-Aug-1947		Long-Term Capital Management
Robert C. Merton	Economist	31-Jul-1944		Risk management and options
David W. Mullins	Business	28-Apr-1946		Vice Chairman of the Fed, 1991-94
Myron S. Scholes	Economist	1-Jul-1941		Black-Scholes options pricing model

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