However, following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 1998 Russian financial crisis the highly leveraged fund in 1998 lost $4.6 billion in less than four months and collapsed abruptly, becoming one of the most prominent examples of risk potential in the investment industry.
然而隨著1997年的東亞金融危機和1998年的俄羅斯金融危機爆發，高槓桿基金在1998年不到4個月的時間內損失46億美元並導致破產，成為投資事業潛在風險最突出的例子。