The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman
Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies: the mathematicians who built the best-performing fund in history, and how little even they understood why. Fascinating and well reported.
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you want the story of quantitative investing's greatest success.
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you want replicable lessons; there are few.
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Three things you will actually use
- Data and discipline beat intuition.
- Hire differently.
- Even the best cannot explain everything.
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Read the chapters on the Medallion fund's early years.
Our verdict
Renaissance, revealed.
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