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Renaissance Technologies LLC, also known as RenTech [4] or RenTec, [5] is an American hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York, [6] on Long Island, which specializes in systematic trading using quantitative models derived from mathematical and statistical analysis. Their signature Medallion fund is famed for the best record in investing history.
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.
Brown is a son of Henry B. R. Brown, who invented the world's first money market fund, the Reserve Fund. [2] Brown's great-grandfather was United States federal judge Addison Brown, who was also a botanist and a founder of the New York Botanical Garden.
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Simons founded a hedge fund management firm called Monemetrics, which he later renamed to Renaissance Technologies. He gradually realized that it should be possible to make mathematical models of the data he was collecting. After hiring mathematicians such as Leonard E. Baum and James Ax, Renaissance established the Medallion Fund in 1988. [29 ...
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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]
Dr. Robert J. Frey is a former Managing Director of Renaissance Technologies Corp (1992–2004) and presently serves as a Research Professor on the faculty of Stony Brook University where he is the Founder and Director of the Program in Quantitative Finance within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics.