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Re: Renaissance Technologies

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There was a book published last week on Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies:

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...

The author was interviewed on the Masters in Businesss podcast:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-10-30/gregory-zuck...

Simons is a serious mathematician:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)

He won the Oswald Veblen Prize in 1976:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Veblen_Prize_in_Geometr...

Re: Renaissance Technologies

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post #9

Either really good math or really good insider trading.

If you watch Billions it seems to be a combination of the two in some firms.

The hedge fund featured in Billions is entirely unlike typical quant trading firms in culture and operation, let alone RenTech.
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