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Jim Simons: The Mathematician Who Made the Market His Playground (and Made a Killing Doing It!)
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Jim Simons: The Mathematician Who Made the Market His Playground (and Made a Killing Doing It!)

the name might not ring a bell, but this guy basically turned Wall Street into his own personal ATM.

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Dec 17, 2024
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Forget Warren Buffett and his value investing, Simons took a different route – he brought in the math nerds! A former codebreaker for the US government (because apparently cracking the Enigma code wasn't challenging enough), Simons decided to tackle something truly perplexing: the stock market. And boy, did he crack it! With his hedge fund, Renaissance …

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