{"id":88202,"date":"2024-05-13T00:14:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=88202"},"modified":"2024-05-12T23:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T03:59:33","slug":"jim-simons-billionaire-quantitative-investing-pioneer-who-generated-eye-popping-returns-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2024\/jim-simons-billionaire-quantitative-investing-pioneer-who-generated-eye-popping-returns-dies-at-86.html","title":{"rendered":"Jim Simons, billionaire quantitative investing pioneer who generated eye-popping returns, dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Jim Simons, a mathematician who founded the most successful quantitative hedge fund of all time, passed away on Friday in New York City. Pioneering\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cqf.com\/blog\/quantitative-investing-everything-you-need-know\" target=\"_blank\">mathematical models and\u00a0algorithms\u00a0to make investment decisions<\/a>, Simons left behind a track record at Renaissance Technologies that rivaled that of legends such as Warren Buffett and George Soros. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/05\/10\/jim-simons-billionaire-quantitative-investing-pioneer-who-generated-eye-popping-returns-dies-at-86.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Jim Simons, a mathematician who founded the most successful quantitative hedge fund of all time, passed away on Friday in New York City. Pioneering\u00a0mathematical models and\u00a0algorithms\u00a0to make investment decisions, Simons left behind a track record at Renaissance Technologies that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88203,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88202\/revisions\/88203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}