Hedge Funds, Leverage, and the Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management

Download or read book Hedge Funds, Leverage, and the Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management written by United States. President's Working Group on Financial Markets and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The President's Working Group on Financial Markets recommends a number of measures designed to constrain excessive leverage in the financial system. The events in global financial markets in the summer and fall of 1998 demonstrated that excessive leverage can greatly magnify the negative effects of any event or series of events on the financial system as a whole. The near collapse of Long-Term Capital Management ("LTCM"), a private sector investment firm, highlighted the possibility that problems at one financial institution could be transmitted to other institutions, and potentially pose risks to the financial system.