Jim Simons, the legendary "Quant King" who founded Renaissance Technologies, died Friday at the age of 86, after forever changing Wall Street with his genius for math and finding patterns in data.

JIM SIMONS, a prizewinning mathematician who abandoned a stellar academic career, then plunged into finance – a world he knew nothing about – and became one of the most successful Wall Street ...

Jim Simons, the math professor who became one of the most successful hedge fund managers in history, died on Friday at the age of 86, according to his foundation. Simons, a prolific philanthropist who ...

Hedge fund manager Jim Simons was the first and most successful to turn investing into a science using quantitative computer models. Jim Simons, a math professor turned hedge fund founder who ...

Here's an example of just how successful Simons has been: His hedge fund's signature product, Medallion Fund, returned a staggering 62% annual returns between 1988 and 2021, or 37% net of fees. To put ...