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Learning from Jim Simons — Investment Masters Class

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To be an investment master, one must be an innovator, humble, open to learning and above all, have an outstanding track record of success. And when it comes to investment track records, few, if any, come close to those of Jim Simons. Unlike most of the investors we’ve covered in the The Investment Masters Class, Jim is an anomaly. He’s a Quant, in fact I’d go so far as to say that he’s the undisputed King of the Quants. His firm, Renaissance Technologies, is somewhat of an anomaly also; they don’t employ business or finance graduates, but do employ scientists, programmers, physicists, cryptographers, computational linguists and mathematicians. They then put these critical thinkers to good use by sifting large amounts of data in order to profit from the world’s financial markets. These atypical investors focus on developing algorithms to exploit inefficiencies in the market, to find profitable patterns to trade across the globe. Jim’s story on how he came to investing is unconventional

To be an Investment Master , one must be innovative, humble, open to learning, and, above all, have an outstanding track record of success. And when it comes to investment track records, few, if any, come close to those of Jim Simons . Unlike most of the investors we’ve covered in the The Investment Masters Class , Jim is an anomaly. He’s a Quant, in fact I’d go so far to call him the undisputed King of the Quants. His firm, Renaissance Technologies , is also an outlier. Instead of hiring business or finance graduates, they recruit scientists, programmers, physicists, cryptographers, computati

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