People/CharactersJohn W. Meriwether

John William Meriwether (born August 10, 1947) is an American hedge fund executive.

Meriwether founded the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1994. Long-Term Capital Management collapsed in 1998.

A year after LTCM's collapse, in 1999, Meriwether founded JWM Partners LLC. The Financial crisis of 2007-2009 badly battered Meriwether's firm. From September 2007 to February 2009. On July 8, 2009, Meriwether closed the fund.

Meriwether opened his third hedge fund venture, named JM Advisors Management, also based in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 2010.

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