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Strategies & Market Trends : Graham and Doddsville -- Value Investing In The New Era

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To: porcupine --''''> who wrote (839)9/30/1998 10:38:00 AM
From: porcupine --''''>  Read Replies (1) of 1722
 
Buffett bid for LTMC would have ousted Merriweather (who was ousted for rigging Treasury Bond bids when Buffett ran Salomon)

"AIG, Buffett made bid for ailing hedge fund - WSJ"

NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Investor Warren
Buffett, American International Group (NYSE:AIG - news) and
Goldman Sachs & Co. offered last week to buy Long-Term Capital
Management LP for $250 million, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

According to this morning's editions of the Wall Street Journal,
the Buffet bid would have required the ouster of Long-Term
Capital founder John Meriwether.

The hedge fund rejected the offer, and later that same day agreed
to a huge rescue plan involving 15 banks including Goldman and
also the Federal Reserve, the paper reported.

Under the alternate bid, the fund's investors would have received
5 percent of the $4.6 billion their stakes were worth, the
Journal said.

The buyout group intended to put up another $3.75 billion to run
the portfolio, the paper added, citing sources familiar with the
deal.

According to the paper Buffett was not available for comment and
AIG, Long-Term Capital and Goldman Sachs declined comment.
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