Billionaire Simons denies selling stake in his company

August 29, 2007 12:05 pm

 Renaissance Technologies Corp, the huge hedge fund group led by mathematician James Simons, on Tuesday denied a news report that it plans to sell a minority stake.”We are not in discussions and there are no plans,” a spokesman for the firm said. “There is no truth to the story.”

The Financial Times on Tuesday carried a front page report that Renaissance “is considering selling a minority stake to a big outside investor group or groups of investors in coming weeks.”

published by Reuters here:

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=etfNews&storyID=2007-08-28T134601Z_01_N28244203_RTRIDST_0_RENAISSANCE-STAKE-URGENT.XML

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