Amaranth Advisors* - Investor Profile
Primary Address: | Investor Information: |
| NA | Total AUM ($MM): | NA |
| Greenwich, CT 06831 | Equity AUM ($MM): | NA |
| United States | Investment Style: | Multi-Strategy |
| Phone: NA | Orientation: | Active |
| Investor Type: | Hedge Fund Manager |
Institutional Investor Background
Amaranth Advisors* was a hedge fund manager that was spun-off of Paloma Partners in September of 2000. Nicholas M. Maounis, who now runs Verition Fund Management, was the managing member of the firm.
In September 2006, Amaranth collapsed after losing $4.6 billion in a single week ($6.6 over the course of the month) from a huge natural gas futures bet. The fund once managed over $9.5 billion and was the largest hedge fund collapse in history at the time.
Amaranth served financial institutions, pension plans, endowments, foundations, and high net worth individuals. The firm had offices in Greenwich, Houston, Toronto, London and Singapore.
Investor Regional and/or Country Focus: Global, North America
Founders and Key Executives of Amaranth Advisors*: Nicholas Maounis*; Manos Vourkoutiotis*; Brian Hunter*
Entities related to Amaranth Advisors*: Amaranth Capital Partners LLC*; Amaranth Global Equities LLC*; Amaranth Global Securities Inc*; Amaranth International LLC; Amaranth LLC*; Paloma Securities LLC*:
Related Firms (See Investor Background for more Details): Paloma Funds; | Verition Fund Management LLC |
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| Date: April 29th, 2011 |
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| Date: October 20th, 2010 |
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| Date: October 8th, 2010 |
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| Date: June 15th, 2010 |
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| Date: February 3rd, 2010 |
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| Date: November 18th, 2009 |
| Amaranth Advisors, the now-defunct hedge fund that collapsed in 2006 after losing more than $6 billion on natural gas futures, has withdrawn its case... |
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| Date: September 28th, 2009 |
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| Date: August 6th, 2008 |
| Dow Kim, the former head of trading and investment banking, left Merrill Lynch to start Diamond Lake, a multi-strategy hedge fund. The fund would receive... |
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| Date: May 14th, 2008 |
| Nicholas Maounis ex manager of the Amaranth Advisors LLC is planning
on starting a new hedge fund called Verition Fund Management LLC.
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| Date: November 29th, 2007 |
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