James Simons News
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Casino executive Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam contributed $33 million to two super-political action committees in a last-ditch effort to elect Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Dinakar Singh discovered in 2001 that his 19-month-old daughter, Arya, had a crippling genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy.
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President Barack Obama entered the final five weeks of the Nov. 6 election with more campaign funds under his direct control than Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who benefits more from the national party and outside groups including super-political action committees.
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Bloomberg's Dominic Chu reports on investing tips from leading strategists including James Simons, the founder of hedge-fund firm Renaissance Technologies Corp.
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Neil Chriss, founder of $1.1 billion hedge fund Hutchin Hill Capital LP, said the U.S. Federal Reserve’s program to buy mortgage securities is “maximally stimulative.”
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Peter Muller, who founded and leads Morgan Stanley’s quantitative investment unit, bested 104 players last week to win the annual Wall Street Poker Night.
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Bruce Berkowitz led money managers buying shares in BP Plc last quarter, when the stock slumped following the explosion of the company’s well in the Gulf of Mexico.
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John Paulson ’s Paulson Credit Opportunities Fund topped the list of 100 best-performing hedge funds over the past three years, Barron’s reported.
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Hutchin Hill Capital LP, the hedge fund founded by Neil Chriss, has exited trades betting against JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader Bruno Iksil in a credit-derivatives index, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Hedge-fund billionaires are envied and hated, demonized and mocked. Their outlandish behavior hasn’t done much for their image, as Sebastian Mallaby shows in “More Money Than God,” a history of the alpha males who play the alpha game.
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