James Simons - Renaissance Technologies

Hedge Fund Manager Simons Calls for Rating Compan

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies
November 13, 2008 9:39 pm

Bond investors including Pacific Investment Management Co. and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System should sponsor a new non-profit rating company to focus on derivative securities, according to hedge fund ... Read more »

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MEDALLION FUND HITS A JACKPOT

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds
August 10, 2008 12:15 pm

Jim Simons, a man known for running one of the world’s most secretive, expensive and successful hedge funds, is on track to wow investors with another year of double-digit returns. ... Read more »

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James Simons Donates $60M To SUNY for Physics Center

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds, Philanthrophy
February 28, 2008 2:38 pm

A  billionaire hedge fund manager and his wife are donating $60 million to the State University of New York at Stony Brook to fund a center for the study of ... Read more »

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Renaissance Clients Pull $4 Billion From Biggest Hedge Fund

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds
January 10, 2008 9:08 pm

 Clients of James Simons’s Renaissance Technologies Corp. withdrew $4 billion from the firm’s largest hedge fund in the past four months after returns trailed peers.Redemptions from the Renaissance Institutional Equities ... Read more »

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Highest paid hedge-fund managers

Filed under Lists and Statistics, James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds, Ken Griffin - Citadel, John Paulson - Paulson & Co., Philip Falcone - Harbinger Capital Partners
December 13, 2007 9:15 am

  Paulson & Co.’s John Paulson earned $2.7 billion in incentive fees in the first nine months of 2007, putting him at the top of our list of best-paid hedge ... Read more »

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Simons at Renaissance Cracks Code, Doubling Assets

Filed under Profiles, James Simons - Renaissance Technologies
November 28, 2007 9:31 am

On a hot afternoon in September, Renaissance Technologies LLC founder Jim Simons is too busy to take a phone call. It is, he says, from Cumrun Vafa, a preeminent ... Read more »

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Hedge-Fund Billionaires Eyed by Congress for More Medicare Tax

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Politics
September 7, 2007 7:05 am

– James Simons, the highest-paid hedge-fund manager in the U.S. last year, could pay enough in Medicare taxes to provide health insurance for about 4,800 senior citizens.Such estimates are being ... Read more »

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Billionaire Simons denies selling stake in his company

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds
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 ... Read more »

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Simons’ Renaissance Said to Pursue Private Offering

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Deals
August 28, 2007 6:53 am

Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s biggest hedge fund groups, has shrugged off concerns about volatile global markets and is considering a partial float. The $30bn (£15bn) group run by ... Read more »

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Billionaire Simmons in the news again: Renaissance Technologies Hedge Fund Declines 8.7% in August

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds
August 10, 2007 11:03 am

James Simons’s $29 billion Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund, which uses computer models to pick stocks, has fallen 8.7 percent so far in August.The hedge fund, started two years ago, has ... Read more »

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(Week old, but better late then never) Ex-Simons Employees Say Firm Pursued Illegal Trades

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds, Investigations & Law
August 9, 2007 3:57 pm

July 30 (Bloomberg) Two former employees of Renaissance Technologies Corp., sued by the East Setauket, New York-based firm for theft of trade secrets, said the company violated securities laws and ... Read more »

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Supossedly Renaissance suffers as well

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds
1:25 pm

Funds of hedge funds familiar with the performance of Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, run by billionaire James Simons, said it had experienced difficulties this week as its quantitative approach struggled to deal with increasingly volatile market conditions. A spokesman for Renaissance did not return a call. published by FT here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/01cf2e4a-46b0-11dc-a3be-0000779fd2ac.html

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Who is James Simons

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds
July 5, 2007 1:44 pm

Simons is No. 1,” says Bernheim. “Ahead of George Soros. Ahead of Mark Kingdon. Ahead of Bruce Kovner. Ahead of Monroe Trout.”How does Simons do it? Start with a world-class ... Read more »

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Renaissance to launch new fund

Filed under James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds
3:53 am

Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s biggest and best performing hedge fund groups, plans to launch a managed futures fund with a capacity of $25bn, an unusual foray into an ... Read more »

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Are billions made by hedge fund managers justified? Story of how very few make billions each year!

Filed under Eddie Lampert - ESL, James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds
May 23, 2007 4:59 am

  James Simons, a 69-year-old mathematician who was at the top of the list, earned $1.7 billion, which equaled the amount of money that the federal government spent last year ... Read more »

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How hedge fund billionaires spend

Filed under Eddie Lampert - ESL, James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds, Lifestyle
May 8, 2007 4:59 am

Article in  New York Times  reports  that most of these money makers put the money back into their funds, “betting that they will continue to beat the markets.” She says Jim ... Read more »

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James H. Simons, president of, the $25 billion hedge fund group, Renaissance Technologies

Filed under Profiles, James Simons - Renaissance Technologies
May 7, 2007 4:15 am

What is known about the 69-year old Simons, a prize-winning mathematician and former code-breaking cryptologist, is that most of the people he hires at Renaissance, the 150-person sized firm, are ... Read more »

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