Billionaire quant investing pioneer and philanthropist James Simons dies at 86

Billionaire quant investing pioneer and philanthropist James Simons dies at 86

Billionaire investor James Simons, the mathematician and Cold War code-breaker who founded one of the world’s most prominent and profitable hedge funds, Renaissance Technologies, has died at 86, his foundation said on Friday. The Simons Foundation did not give a cause of death. Sixty years ago Simons — who preferred to be known as Jim … Read more