Roger Lowenstein (born in 1954) is an American financial journalist and writer. He graduated from Cornell University and reported for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, including two years writing its Heard on the Street column, 1989 to 1991. Born in 1954, he is the son of Helen and Louis Lowenstein of Larchmont, N.Y. Lowenstein is married to Judith Slovin.
He is also a director of Sequoia Fund. His father, the late Louis Lowenstein, was an attorney and Columbia University law professor who wrote books and articles critical of the American financial industry.
Roger Lowenstein's latest book, America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve (The Penguin Press) was released on October 20, 2015.
He has three children and lives in Westfield, New Jersey.
发表于2025-01-22
When Genius Failed 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
如果作者的理解是正确的,那LTCM的策略很简单,两面下注,得到一个波动很小的金融产品组合,再用财务杠杆放大,从而创造出“适合自己”,也就是满足“最多能输多少钱”的预期盈利最高的产品组合。理论上说,这种方法可以精确地调节风险水平,从而能对自己“量身定做”出合适的...
评分1. 依靠模型但对交易的本质不理解 a. 风险在本质上是不可定价的 Black-Scholes等数理金融模型定价的是"波动性",无法定价不确定性,市场系统对不确定性的定价是发散的. b. 只能对标的统计特征稳定(波动性可大,但不确定性不能大)的系统保险,绝不可对不确定性保险。(保险的...
评分1. 依靠模型但对交易的本质不理解 a. 风险在本质上是不可定价的 Black-Scholes等数理金融模型定价的是"波动性",无法定价不确定性,市场系统对不确定性的定价是发散的. b. 只能对标的统计特征稳定(波动性可大,但不确定性不能大)的系统保险,绝不可对不确定性保险。(保险的...
评分 评分告诉我,什么叫荣耀 ——《赌金者——长期资本管理公司的升腾与陨落》 有些执着,赢,赢得世界,输,输掉一切。 长期资本管理公司的一生很短,屈指五年;长期资本管理公司的一生很长,是一段历史。 如果说历史是一面镜子,在越黑暗的时候越明亮,《赌金者》就是一...
图书标签: 金融 Finance 华尔街 LTCM 对冲基金 投资 美国 案例
On September 23, 1998, the boardroom of the New York Fed was a tense place. Around the table sat the heads of every major Wall Street bank, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and representatives from numerous European banks, each of whom had been summoned to discuss a highly unusual prospect: rescuing what had, until then, been the envy of them all, the extraordinarily successful bond-trading firm of Long-Term Capital Management. Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed is the gripping story of the Fed's unprecedented move, the incredible heights reached by LTCM, and the firm's eventual dramatic demise.
Lowenstein, a financial journalist and author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, examines the personalities, academic experts, and professional relationships at LTCM and uncovers the layers of numbers behind its roller-coaster ride with the precision of a skilled surgeon. The fund's enigmatic founder, John Meriwether, spent almost 20 years at Salomon Brothers, where he formed its renowned Arbitrage Group by hiring academia's top financial economists. Though Meriwether left Salomon under a cloud of the SEC's wrath, he leapt into his next venture with ease and enticed most of his former Salomon hires--and eventually even David Mullins, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve--to join him in starting a hedge fund that would beat all hedge funds.
LTCM began trading in 1994, after completing a road show that, despite the Ph.D.-touting partners' lack of social skills and their disdainful condescension of potential investors who couldn't rise to their intellectual level, netted a whopping $1.25 billion. The fund would seek to earn a tiny spread on thousands of trades, "as if it were vacuuming nickels that others couldn't see," in the words of one of its Nobel laureate partners, Myron Scholes. And nickels it found. In its first two years, LTCM earned $1.6 billion, profits that exceeded 40 percent even after the partners' hefty cuts. By the spring of 1996, it was holding $140 billion in assets. But the end was soon in sight, and Lowenstein's detailed account of each successively worse month of 1998, culminating in a disastrous August and the partners' subsequent panicked moves, is riveting.
The arbitrageur's world is a complicated one, and it might have served Lowenstein well to slow down and explain in greater detail the complex terms of the more exotic species of investment flora that cram the book's pages. However, much of the intrigue of the Long-Term story lies in its dizzying pace (not to mention the dizzying amounts of money won and lost in the fund's short lifespan). Lowenstein's smooth, conversational but equally urgent tone carries it along well. The book is a compelling read for those who've always wondered what lay behind the Fed's controversial involvement with the LTCM hedge-fund debacle. --S. Ketchum
作者是记者出身,精彩的语言和叙事把这件事情写的如同小说一般,不过技术上似乎没有涉及太多,然后跟Michael Lewis一样太罗嗦了!以及这哥们跟克林顿和莱温斯基有啥过节么,拉链门被提到了3次。。
评分readable and insightful history of LTCM
评分他们是很聪明,但却缺乏了一个常识:投资都是有风险的。他们承担了太高的风险了。
评分这本书简直就是在啪啪打金融工程的脸(但人家依旧是最好找工作的专业……)
评分后人哀之而不鉴之,亦使后人而复哀后人也
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