Jim Simons News
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Just before 10 last night, NBC News anchor Brian Williams said the total amount raised at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit was “$72,559,253 and counting.”
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On a conference call with investors last month, billionaire John Paulson boasted that one of his biggest hedge funds would have been up 15 percent this year -- if only he hadn’t owned gold stocks.
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Hedge funds returned 0.5 percent in April, lagging behind global stock markets for the sixth straight month.
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“A Funny Affair for Autism” last night featured a live auction of two menorahs and three Christmas trees.
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Renaissance LLC, the investment firm founded by Jim Simons, started trading its new hedge fund on March 1 with $3.5 billion in assets, mostly employees’ money, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Hedge funds fell 0.4 percent last month, trailing global stocks, as funds including those at John Paulson’s Paulson & Co. and Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates LP posted declines in February.
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Bloomberg Markets’ inaugural list of the world’s richest people showcases the billionaires who pull the levers on the global economy. Their net worth totals $2.7 trillion, about the size of the gross domestic product of France, the fifth-biggest economy on the planet.
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Renaissance Technologies LLC, the $20 billion investment firm founded by Jim Simons, is starting a new hedge fund, its first in five years, to trade stocks and futures, according to a document sent to potential investors.
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John Allison, former chairman of bank holding company BB&T Corp., admires author Ayn Rand so much that he devised a strategy to spread her laissez-faire principles on U.S. campuses. Allison, working through the BB&T Charitable Foundation, gives schools grants of as much as $2 million if they agree to create a course on capitalism and make Rand’s masterwork, “Atlas Shrugged,” required reading.
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As a devout numbers geek, Glen Whitney was bothered that the cultural landscape offered no museum celebrating the field of mathematics.
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