Jim Simons
COVID Skeptics Leon Cooperman, Donald Trump Reduced To Penury By Pandemic
With a mere $2.5 billion each, they are both among the 332.8 million poorest Americans.
Look Who’s The 391st Richest Person In America
He’s not as rich as Carl Icahn yet, but Bill Ackman will almost certainly outlive him.
Jim Simons Backing Coronavirus Vaccine In Between Bouts Of Smoker’s Cough
If he survives the cancer sticks, he sure as hell doesn’t want to die of some trumped-up flu.
Jim Simons, Bob Mercer Even Better At Printing Money Than We Thought
Also: Bob Mercer even weirder and crazier than previously reported.
Jim Simons Diversifying His Carcinogenic Cloud Portfolio
Simons’ preferred cigarette may not be of the jazz variety, but you’ll find him wherever there’s money to be made.
Bob Mercer Would Even Take A Loan From Jim Simons' Son To Get More Of That Sweet, Sweet Medallion Action
Nothing is out-of-bounds when it comes to investing in RenTech's super-secret internal hedge fund.
What's Left Of The CFTC Is Finally Intrigued By How RenTec Never Loses
What the fuck is Bob Mercer even paying for?
RenTech Goes Nuclear On High-Frequency Traders
Jim Simons has a dream and it involves atomic clocks.
Jim Simons Spits Hot Nerd Fire On President Trump
You never want to be be called out as a bad Sharpe ratio by an old mathematician.
Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers Liked 2015 Just Fine
Oh, you didn't make $12.94 billion? That's unfortunate.
Look At These Paupers: The 25 Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers Of Last Year Made A Trifling $11.62 Billion
Scratch that. It was a triflin' $11.62 billion. They can't even scrape together the money for the 'g'.
Steve Cohen Did Pretty Well For Himself Last Year
The end of 2012 might've been a tough one for the SAC Capital founder, what with the matter of a former employee being accused of orchestrating “the most lucrative insider trading scheme ever," being referenced in the complaint as Portfolio Manager A, and ultimately being forced to show the softer side of Steve but the Big Guy still managed to take home $1.3 billion, so he's got that going for him.
This Is A Story About A Guy Telling A Random Dude On The Street "I'm actually building a hedge fund that uses quantitative strategies to pick stocks" And That Dude Actually Being Jim Simons
Something we've long-maintained around the Dealbreaker office is that hedge fund manager Jim Simons would make a great fairy godmother, what with his soothing voice, white beard, and the fact that he's really just a lovable math teacher who happened to make a zillion dollars by tinkering away the computers in his garage and would be happy to lend the powers of his magic cigarette wand to those in need. So we were extremely pleased to have our attention brought to an anecdote from Scott Patterson's Dark Pools, in which Simons seems to appear out of nowhere, just like a FGM would, sprinkles unexpected gifts on a young man and woman (of both hope* and nicotine), and then disappears as quickly as he came via golden carriage. (We also appreciate that Simons is the kind of FGM that will laugh in your face as you explain to him what a quant fund is, not realizing he's got some experience there.) One day in the summer of 2006, Fleiss was having lunch outdoors with his girlfriend at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. As they chatted in the sun after their meal, an elderly man dressed in a modest suit walked out of the restaurant and lit up a cigarette. Fleiss's girlfriend bummed a smoke off him, and they began to chat. "So what do you do?" he asked Fleiss. "I'm actually building a hedge fund that uses quantitative strategies to pick stocks," he said. "Oh really?" The man laughed. "Where did you go to school?" "Amherst." "Good school. You know, I'm also in the quant biz." Fleiss asked where he worked, but the man wouldn't answer. But Fleiss kept pushing. Finally, the man said he ran a fund called Renaissance Technologies. Fleiss nearly fell out of his chair. He wanted to talk more, but a gleaming Bentley had just pulled to the curb and Jim Simons quickly disappeared into it. Dark Pools [Scott Patterson] Related: Who Wants to Become A Rebellion Research Investor? *That some of his quant-i-ness would rub off on the guy.