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Roger Lowenstein

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When Genius Failed

by Roger Lowenstein

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Long-Term Capital Management was a hedge fund run by Nobel laureates and bond-trading legends that nearly collapsed the global financial system in 1998. Lowenstein reconstructs the fund's rise — based on sophisticated arbitrage models — and its catastrophic fall when Russia defaulted and the models stopped working.

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Where to Start with Roger Lowenstein: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Roger Lowenstein — how to approach When Genius Failed, his definitive account of the rise and collapse of Long-Term Capital Management and what it revealed about the gap between financial models and the real world. A complete reading guide.

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