Bus 171A Foundations of Financial Institutes Report on the Long Term Capital Management Case Read “Hedge Funds and the Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1999), and answer the following questions: (1) What are LTCM

  

Bus 171A

Foundations of Financial Institutes

Report on the Long Term Capital Management Case

Read “Hedge Funds and the Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1999), and answer the following questions:

(1) What are LTCM’s main investment strategies? What were the assumptions they made? What are the potential risks?

(2) Why were they so successful in the beginning years? 

(3) What were the external factors that triggered the problems? How did they try to address the problem?

(4) How did Fed intervene? Any major regulation change following its collapse?

Length of main text: 2 full pages (not including heading and references)

Formatting: 1” margin, Times New Roman font size 12, and 1.5-space.