Book Cover of The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simmons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm–and made $23 billion doing it.

Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor–Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros–can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance’s signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars. […Learn More]