Lethal Leverage: The Multi-Billion Dollar Collapse of Amaranth Advisors

How can a single, highly respected commodity trader at an elite multi-billion-dollar hedge fund completely incinerate the entire company in less than a month? The collapse of Amaranth Advisors in 2006 remains one of the most spectacular, terrifying failures of risk management in the history of Wall Street. Star trader Brian Hunter had previously made billions for Amaranth by aggressively predict...