Wall Street Journal Chronicles Amaranth's Demise

Today's Wall Street Journal provides a gruesomely fascinating account of Amaranth's final days ("Amid Amaranth's Crisis, Other Players Profited"). The mental image it conjures in the reader's mind is that of a pack of wolves, one of which has injured itself and lies dying of its wounds, the rest taking the biggest, juiciest hunks out of it they can while its heart still beats. The Amaranth fiasco continues to affect the industr

Today's Wall Street Journal provides a gruesomely fascinating account of Amaranth's final days ("Amid Amaranth's Crisis, Other Players Profited"). The mental image it conjures in the reader's mind is that of a pack of wolves, one of which has injured itself and lies dying of its wounds, the rest taking the biggest, juiciest hunks out of it they can while its heart still beats.

The Amaranth fiasco continues to affect the industry. In addition to the SEC's efforts to regulate hedge funds, the SEC, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Financial Services Authority in London are investigating banks' and securities firms' lending practices to hedge funds.