Hedge Hogs: The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street's Largest

Barbara T. Dreyfuss, "Hedge Hogs: The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street's Largest Hedge Fund Disaster"
ISBN: 1400068398 | 2013 | MOBI | 320 pages |

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: thirty-two-year-old 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. Meticulously researched and character-driven, Hedge Hogs is 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.