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James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. [4] At the time of his death, Simons's net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 51st-richest person in the world. [4]
May 10, 2024 · Jim Simons, the prizewinning mathematician who abandoned a stellar academic career, then plunged into finance — a world he knew nothing about — and became one of the most successful Wall...
- Jonathan Kandell
May 10, 2024 · Jim Simons, the billionaire investor, mathematician and philanthropist, died on Friday in New York City, according to his foundation, the Simons Foundation. Simons was 86 years old.
May 10, 2024 · Jim (as he preferred to be called) was an award-winning mathematician, a legend in quantitative investing, and an inspired and generous philanthropist. Together with his wife, Simons Foundation chair Marilyn Simons, he gave billions of dollars to hundreds of philanthropic causes, particularly those supporting math and science research and ...
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Jim Simons was born on April 25, 1938, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. During the Vietnam War, Simons worked with the National Security Agency as a codebreaker and ...
Despite successful careers as a mathematician and professor, Jim Simons pursued a career in finance. In 1978, Jim Simons founded a hedge fundcalled Monemetrics. He realized that pattern recognition could be applied to trading in financial markets and developed a system with quantitative models. Hiring mathematicians, statisticians, and physicists, ...
As of 2024, Jim Simons ranked 55th on the Forbeslist of American billionaires with a net worth of $31.4 billion. Jim Simons co-founded the Simons Foundation with his wife, Marilyn Simons, in 1994, contributing over $2.7 billion of his wealth. The Simons Foundation is devoted to supporting education, health, and autism research. Simons founded Math ...
Jim Simons incorporated the use of quantitative analysis in hedge fund management. Regarded as both a prominent mathematician and investor, Simons' strategies are found in the success of his firm Renaissance Technologies and its Medallion Fund.
- Steven Nickolas
May 10, 2024 · Legendary mathematician and investor Jim Simons, also known as the "Quant King," died at the age of 86 on Friday, according to a statement from the Simons Foundation.
May 10, 2024 · Jim Simons, a mathematician who founded the most successful quantitative hedge fund of all time, passed away on Friday in New York City, his foundation announced on its website.
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