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Despite COVID-19's devastating impact, one legendary stock picker might have just cracked the market code. While the broader market tumbled, investing firm Renaissance Technologies and its founder ...
James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. [4] At the time of his death, Simons' net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th-richest person in the world. [4]
In 2003 Simons announced that Brown and Mercer would become executive vice-presidents of the entire firm, co-managing with Simons himself. [21] In 2010 Simons made Brown and Mercer co-CEOS and retired. [22] In November 2017, Mercer announced that he would resign from Renaissance Technologies. [23] Since Mercer's resignation, Brown has been the ...
Nathaniel Simons (born 1966) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. [1] [2] He is the founder of Meritage Group, an investment management firm managing over $12 billion in assets, co-founder of Prelude Ventures, a clean tech investment fund, and is the former co-chair of Renaissance Technologies, one of the largest hedge funds in the world.
He left Stony Brook in 1992 to join Renaissance Technologies. [4] In 2015, a conference was held for his 70th anniversary at Tsinghua University in China. [1] Laufer co-founded the Medallion Fund with Jim Simons in 1988. [5] Laufer served as chief scientist and vice president of research at Renaissance Technologies, its parent company. [6]
Renaissance Capital has acted as organiser on a number of capital markets transactions in Russia, including: Beeline $127.4 mn IPO on NYSE in November 1996 – the first IPO out of Russia; [27] ALROSA $1.3bn IPO in October 2013 – the largest IPO ever on Moscow Exchange; [28] RUSAL $2.24 bn IPO in January 2010 – Hong Kong’s first ever ...
Simons ran Renaissance until his retirement in late 2009. [14] He continued to play a role at the firm as non-executive chairman, which he stepped down from in 2021, [15] and remained invested in its funds, particularly the Medallion fund until his death in 2024. [16] The company is now run by Peter Brown (after Robert Mercer resigned).
Magerman spent two decades working for James Simons’s New York-based investment management company Renaissance Technologies, where he developed trading algorithms. [5] In 2017, Magerman publicly opposed the views of his boss, Robert Mercer, concerning politics and race issues in America. Mercer, the co-CEO of Renaissance Technology, suspended ...