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Long Term Capital Management(LTCM) was a hedge fund established salomon shoes outlet in 1994 by John Meriwether, a very successful bond trader at Salomon Brothers. At Salomon, Meriwether was one of the first on wall street to hire top academics and professors. Meriwether established a team of academics who applied models based on financial theories to trading. At Salomon, Meriwether's group of geniuses generated amazing returns and demonstrated an unparalleled ability to precisely calculate risk and other market factors.

In 1994, Meriwether left Salomon salomon speedcross 4 gtx and established LTCM. The partners included two Nobel Price-winning economists, a former vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, a professor from Harvard University, and other successful bond traders. This elite group of traders and academics attracted initial investment of about $1.3 billion from many large institutional clients.

The strategy of LTCM was simple salomon speedcross 4 womens in concept but difficult to implement. LTCM utilized computer models to find arbitrage opportunities between markets. LTCM's central strategy was convergence trades where securities were incorrectly priced relative to one another. LTCM would take long positions on the under priced security and short positions on the overpriced security.

LTCM engaged in this strategy salomon speedcross 4 mens in international bond markets, emerging markets, US Government bonds, and other markets. LTCM would make money when these spreads shrunk and returned to the fair value. Later, when LTCM's capital base increased the fund engaged in strategies outside their expertise such as merger arbitrage and S&P 500 volatility.