About Jim Simons
- Jim Simons is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, an esteemed quantitative trading hedge fund firm that manages about $50 billion.
- He founded Renaissance Technologies in 1982 and retired in 2010, but he still plays a role at Renaissance and benefits from its funds.
- Renaissance Technologies is famous for its Medallion Fund, a $10 billion black-box strategy that is only open to Renaissance's owners and employees.
- Simons has given $4 billion to philanthropic causes. His foundation is the primary funder of Math For America. He also supports autism research.
- In September 2021, Renaissance executives agreed to pay $7 billion to the IRS to settle a tax dispute over trades made by the Medallion Fund.
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 85
- Source of Wealth
- Hedge funds, Self Made
- Residence
- East Setauket, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
Did you know
Simons used to chair the math department at Stony Brook University and was a codebreaker for the U.S. during the Vietnam War.
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