Hedge Hogs: The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street's Largest Hedge Fund Disaster

In September 2006, in just a week, one of America's leading hedge funds, Amaranth Advisors, lost almost 65% of its assets - more than $ 6 billion. The catastrophic collapse of the company shocked not only the entire commodity market, but also the pension funds that invested in it. How could this happen? What actually happened behind the closed doors of hedge funds that were outside of government regulation? The investigation by Barbara Dreyfuss, a 20-year-old Wall Street analyst, restores t...