John W. Meriwether (born August 10,1947 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American bond trader at Salomon Brothers, where he became the head of the domestic fixed income arbitrage group in the early eighties and the vice-chairman of the company in 1988.
John W. Meriwether (born August 10,1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American financial executive on Wall Street seen as a pioneer of fixed income arbitrage. Meriwether worked as a bond trader at Salomon Brothers where he became the head of the domestic fixed income arbitrage group in the early eighties and the vice-chairman of the company in 1988.