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The CEO of a hedge fund that averaged a 66% return for 3 decades spoke about investing, hiring, and sleeping 2,000 nights in his office. Here are the 11 best quotes.
Renaissance Technologies CEO Peter Brown said IBM's "Deep Blue" chess computer was his idea, and he…
Theron Mohamed
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Robert Mercer and Renaissance Technologies insiders to pay as much as $7 billion to the IRS in one of the largest federal tax settlements in history
The settlement is one of the largest in history. James Simons, the founder of Renaissance, will pay…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Jim Simons' Renaissance fund dumped Apple and Amazon and boosted its Tesla stake last quarter
The Cold War codebreaker and MIT math professor's quantitative hedge fund also ramped up its Zoom i…
Theron Mohamed
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Jim Simons' Renaissance slashed its stakes in Amazon and Starbucks, and pulled $1.2 billion out of Tesla last quarter
The Cold War codebreaker and MIT math professor's hedge fund also took a $400 million stake in Zoom.
Theron Mohamed
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Dan Loeb, David Tepper, and Paul Tudor Jones piled into Nvidia stock last quarter - and other elite investors joined them
Loeb's Third Point, Tepper's Appaloosa Management, and Jim Simons' RenTech owned a combined $1.4 bi…
Theron Mohamed
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7 hedge funds that scored big gains during the market meltdown
Jim Simons' Renaissance Technologies, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, and the "black swan" fund Univ…
Theron Mohamed
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Elton John, Jim Carrey, and Adam McKay are among the latest celebrities announcing they quit Twitter after Elon Musk takeover
More stars and public figures have pledged to leave the platform, citing concerns over the directio…
Beatrice Nolan
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10 things before the opening bell
Inflation data breaks records, stocks during geopolitical turmoil are good to buy the dip on, and w…
Phil Rosen
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Warren Buffett slammed SPACs, blasted Robinhood, and defended 'big tech' valuations at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting. Here are the 23 best quotes.
The billionaire investor revealed that his business partner, Charlie Munger, advised him against ca…
Theron Mohamed
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Jim Simons, Elon Musk and Amazon: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ON WALL STREET
US investigating market-making operations of Citadel, KCG - Federal authorities are investigating t…
Business Insider
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These were the top 15 highest-earning hedge funders in 2020
Gabe Plotkin of Melvin Capital, which lost 53% in January after it was caught on the wrong side of …
Matthew Fox
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10 things you need to know before the opening bell
This is what traders are talking about.
Shalini Nagarajan
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How hedge fund legend Jim Simons went from cracking codes to cracking financial markets
"But in looking at the data, after a while I realized: it looks like there's some structure here. A…
Lucinda Shen
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Billionaire investor Alan Howard scored a 100% return for his hedge fund this year
The Brevan Howard cofounder reportedly doubled his investors' money by capitalizing on the coronavi…
Theron Mohamed
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A hedge fund manager who dominated the last financial crisis posted a 26% loss during March's violent sell-offs, new report says
Ali Lumsden posted a 73% gain betting against the mortgage market in 2007, but his securitized cred…
Ben Winck
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10 things you need to know before the opening bell
This is what traders are talking about.
Shalini Nagarajan
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'One of the more remarkable moments in financial history': Here's how analysts are reacting to oil's unprecedented crash below $0
Analysts are scrambling to make sense of the shocking moves seen in oil markets in recent days. Her…
Saloni Sardana
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These are the 5 hedge fund managers who took home more than $1 billion last year
Bloomberg used Securities and Exchange Commission filings, past reporting, firms' websites, and pas…
Ben Winck
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An investment chief who oversees $65 billion, refuses to watch CNBC, and doesn't have a Bloomberg terminal shares the books and podcasts he 'can't praise enough'
Hallett's incessant focus on long-term investing renders the tools that most money managers view as…
Christopher Competiello
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For 30 years, Renaissance Technologies achieved 66% annualized returns. Here's how a group of academics with no trading experience became the most successful hedge fund in history.
Simons' search was unrelenting. Historical data was sequestered into tiny fragments, vetted tireles…