May 21, 2024 – Just this month on May 10th, the legendary investor and founder of Renaissance technologies, Jim Simons passed away. Jim was a leading mathematician and code breaker who went on to become one of the most successful hedge fund managers and investors of all time. He did this using advanced math, physics, and machine learning to handily beat the market year after year for multiple decades. At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated around 30 billion dollars, making him the 51st richest person in the world. His firm Renaissance and the returns he and his team of mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists were able to achieve are the stuff of legends. As a tribute to his recent passing, we’d like to present our 2019 book interview with Gregory Zuckerman, author of The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. As Jim went on to explain before his death, one of the key factors that led to Renaissance’s success was in their ability to develop an algorithmic trading model that learned from its past mistakes and was able to exploit the patterns, emotions, and irrationality of us human beings in the markets. This was a fascinating book and I hope you enjoy today’s interview.
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