num_pages: 359
description: Gregory Zuckerman the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardJim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett Peter Lynch Ray Dalio Steve Cohen or George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988 Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars.Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees Zuckerman a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven algorithmic approach that's sweeping the world.As Renaissance became a market force its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research education and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump's victorious 2016 effort. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit.The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm and his country. It's also a story of what Simons's revolution means for the rest of us.
language: English
title: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
publisher: Portfolio Penguin