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  1. Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) was a highly leveraged hedge fund. In 1998, it received a $3.6 billion bailout from a group of 14 banks, in a deal brokered and put together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York .

  2. Dec 19, 2023 · Learn about LTCM, a hedge fund that collapsed in 1998 due to massive losses from Russia's debt default. Find out how the U.S. government arranged a bailout to prevent a global financial crisis.

  3. Feb 4, 2024 · Long-Term Capital Management Explained. Long-term Capital Management (LTCM) was a hedge fund that employed complex trading strategies based on mathematical models to exploit pricing discrepancies in various financial instruments. The fund’s primary concept was centered around arbitrage and the idea that certain assets, like government bonds ...

  4. Nov 22, 2013 · On September 23, 1998, a group of fourteen banks and brokerage firms invested $3.6 billion in Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) to prevent the firm’s imminent collapse. The capital infusion forestalled a fire sale of LTCM assets into already turbulent markets and instead allowed for an orderly liquidation of the hedge fund’s holdings.

  5. Jan 27, 2022 · Learn how a $126 billion hedge fund collapsed in 1998 and triggered a global financial crisis. Find out the causes, cures, and consequences of the LTCM crisis and its connection to the 2008 financial crisis.

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  6. Feb 1, 2000 · In the fall of 1998, the losses and credit exposure of one particular hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), were so far-reaching that the U.S. Federal Reserve Board (Fed) felt compelled to organize LTCM's rescue.

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  8. Jul 10, 2014 · But by 1998, that firm was primed to expose America's largest banks to more than $1 trillion in default risks. The demise of the firm, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), was swift and...