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Amaranth Advisors: Burning Six Billion in Thirty Days
Walid Busaba; Zeigham Khokher; Anuroop DuggalCase IVEY-9B08N003-EFinance, StrategyThis case provides students with a deeper understanding of commodity futures markets in general and natural gas markets in particular. It also provides an introduction to hedge funds and insight into the largest hedge fund collapse in history. Third, it introduces such concepts as liquidity risk, value-at-risk, spread trades and the use of derivatives. As of the case date, Amaranth had not publicly disclosed the positions that led to $6 billion i...Starting at €8.20