John Meriwether, whose hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) came so spectacularly unstuck last month, is celebrated for an almost bizarre ability to remain calm in the face of huge risk. His quiet, intensely private demeanour has long belied an almost obsessive hunger for ever bigger positions. “If you feel good about the market,” he would tell young traders at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, “then get serious.”
Meriwether’s name reached a wide public in 1989 when the Salomon trader-turned-author Michael Lewis described his peculiar talent for liar’s poker.
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