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Amaranth Advisors
Company typePrivate
IndustryHedge funds
Founded2000 (2000) in Greenwich, CT, United States
FounderNicholas Maounis[1]
DefunctSeptember 2007 (2007-09)
FateBankrupted
Number of locations
Houston, London, Singapore, Toronto, Greenwich[2] (2006)
Key people
  • • Robert Jones (Chief Risk Officer)[3]
  • • Charles H. Winkler (COO)[2]
AUMUS$9.2 billion (at its peak Aug 2006)[1]

Amaranth Advisors LLC was an American multi-strategy hedge fund founded by Nicholas M. Maounis and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.[1] At its peak, the firm had up to $9.2 billion in assets under management before collapsing in September 2006, after losing in excess of $6 billion on natural gas futures.[1] Amaranth Advisors collapse is one of the biggest hedge fund collapses in history and at the time (2006) largest known trading losses.[4]

  1. ^ a b c d Barr, Alistair (25 September 2006). "Amaranth energy trades leveraged five times in May". San Francisco, United States: MarketWatch. Dow Jones & Company Inc. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b Morgenson, Gretchen; Anderson, Jenny (19 September 2006). "A Hedge Fund's Loss Rattles Nerves". New York Times. No. Business Day. New York, N.Y., United States. The New York Times Company. p. C1. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  3. ^ "WEDDINGS; Stella Simakova, Robert Jones". New York Times. United States. The New York Times Company. 7 April 2002. p. 12. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  4. ^ Copeland, Rob (1 January 2016). "Ten Years After Blowup, Amaranth Investors Waiting to Get Money Back". The Wall Street Journal. Eastern Edition. No. Hedge Funds. United States: Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company Inc. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

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