EPISODE · Apr 23, 2026 · 13 MIN
LTCM 1998: Prime Brokerage Leverage & Tail Correlation | GP/LP Analysis — 3 Red Flags | EP01 T2
from Financial Forensics: Autopsy Files · host Sergio Stieben
Two Nobel Prize winners. One hundred and twenty-five billion dollars in exposure. The Federal Reserve forced to intervene. LTCM's models predicted every scenario except the one where every counterparty moves simultaneously. This is the analysis of distributed prime brokerage leverage — how nine banks each thought they had a manageable exposure, and none of them knew they were all financing the same concentrated position. What a GP or LP should have seen in the LPA before the margin call arrived.
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LTCM 1998: Prime Brokerage Leverage & Tail Correlation | GP/LP Analysis — 3 Red Flags | EP01 T2
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