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’Former Amaranth trader in US court move
Brian Hunter, the energy trader whose wrong bets on natural gas prices led to the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, has filed a legal action to block the US gas regulator from bringing an enforcement action against him.
Amaranth gas trades ‘hit US consumers’
A US congressional report will claim on Monday that hedge fund Amaranth and its star trader Brian Hunter built up such large positions in the US natural gas derivatives markets last year that they single-handedly sparked abnormally high gas prices for consumers across the US.
Hedge fund rankings: it’s all about risk, stupid
Inspired by recently published annual rankings of the hedge-fund industry’s best paid stars — the “Oscars of hedge-fund land” — the Wall Street Journals’ Breaking Views column sets out to debunk the growing obsession with such rankings.
Brian Hunter’s Solengo, in pictures and pdfs
What fun! Dealbreaker.com, the digital Wall St tabloid, has responded to legal moves by Solengo, the new hedge fund being set up by Amaranth-killer Brian Hunter, to stop bloggers reprinting its brochure by posting the entire document on its site.
Hunter’s new hedge fund – here’s the spiel
Guess who’s back.
Ex-Amaranth gas trader Brian Hunter is back in the commodities game, courtesy of a shiny new hedge fund that boasts an Italian wine as its namesake. Via Greg Newton’s Naked Shorts blog,
Hunter in search of new prey
Brian Hunter, the commodities trader whose huge bet on natural gas took down Amaranth Advisors last fall, is said to be planning an energy-focused hedge fund, reports TheStreet.com.
The planned venture is said to have been seeded with around $750m to $800m,
Did the Street cause Amaranth’s collapse?
Oh, the tangled web that is Wall Street. Today’s WSJ tells the tale of how the Street dealt with Amaranth after the fund had traded its way into a deep hole – much of it consisting of kicking Maounis et al while they were down.