As a kid Jim Simons loved solving math problems, it was his passion. He thrived in school and went on to the best colleges as both a student and late a professor. His dream life was coffee, cigarettes, and math. He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in […]
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Renaissance Technologies is one of the top hedge funds in the world headquartered in New York and the firm is managed by Jim Simons. His hedge fund specializes in diversified system trading using individual quantitative models derived from statistical analyses of historical price data. Renaissance Technologies runs many portfolios with the most famous and successful
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The Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund has produced some of the greatest returns in the history of the markets. They have the best returns for consistency, percentage of returns and did this while trading billions in capital. They have been so successful that they had to close down this fund to new outside investors. It now
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I recently read Greg Zuckerman’s new book ‘The Man Who Solved The Market’ and he has done a great job giving readers a peak inside the secretive world of Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies hedge fund operations. Jim Simons Renaissance Technologies has been the greatest money making operation in the modern financial markets. No other
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In 1982, 40 year old retired mathematics professor Jim Simons founded the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund and staffed it with mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists to pioneer the world of algorithmic trading. Since 1988, Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund has returned an average of +66% a year and made over $150 billion in profits
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