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According to The Wall Street Journal in May 2009, Simons was questioned by investors on the dramatic performance gap of Renaissance Technologies' portfolios. The Medallion Fund, which has been available exclusively to current and past employees and their families, surged 80% in 2008 in spite of hefty fees; the Renaissance Institutional Equities ...
Jim Simons, the legendary "Quant King" who founded Renaissance Technologies, died Friday at the age of 86, after forever changing Wall Street with his genius for math and finding patterns in...
James Simons founded Renaissance Technologies following a decade as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Stony Brook University. Simons in 1976 was a recipient of the Oswald Veblen Prize of the American Mathematical Society, which is geometry's highest honor.
James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering investor who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation's biggest philanthropists, has died at age 86.
Simons, who was 86, founded in 1978 what would become the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies. The top-performing firm only hired scientists to develop its trading strategies, all of which were...
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (2019), the third non-fiction adult book authored by Greg Zuckerman is about Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies. The Man Who Solved The Market was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller.
Even though you may have never heard of him, James Simons started the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund, which netted him an estimated $1.3 billion in 2012. That colossal payday places him in...
In 2021, Mercer was involved in possibly the largest tax settlement in U.S. history, as he, James Simons, and other executives at the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies were ordered to pay as much as $7 billion to the IRS in back taxes.
The couple joined Jim and Marilyn Simons to endow the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, with an unrestricted $70 million gift in 2022. The school honored the donors by renaming the Institute to the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute.
Quant trading guru Jim Simons is calling it a day, sort of. The mathematician and cryptologist is famous in the investing community for bringing his analytical eye to the world of the stock ...