Brian Hunter (born c. 1974) was the Canadian based trader for the now closed Amaranth Advisors hedge fund. Amaranth, which had $6 billion in assets and closed in 2006 because of bad natural gas trades, was the largest hedge fund collapse in history. He was based in Calgary, Alberta (his home town) and is single handedly responsible for losing the fund $6.5b USD betting on the weather and closing the fund down in fall of 2006. In 2007, Hunter organized a new hedge fund, … Wikipedia
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