Bestselling author and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?
Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. His track record bests those of legendary investors including Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, and George Soros. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. Wall Street insiders have long craved a view into Simons's singular mind, as well as the definitive account of how his secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies, came to dominate financial markets. Bestselling author and Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods.
After a legendary career as a mathematician at MIT and Harvard, and a stint breaking Soviet code for the U.S. government, Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach. He hired mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists, most of whom knew little about finance. Experts scoffed as Simons built Renaissance Technologies from a dreary Long Island strip mall. He amassed piles of data and developed algorithms to hunt for deeply hidden patterns in the numbers--patterns that reveal rules governing all markets.
Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest individuals in the world and their data-driven approach launched a quantitative revolution on Wall Street. They also anticipated dramatic shifts in society. Eventually, governments, sports teams, hospitals, and businesses in almost every industry embraced Simons's methods.
Simons and his team used their newfound wealth to upend society. Simons has become a major influence in scientific research, education, and politics, while senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for Donald Trump's victorious presidential campaign. The Renaissance team's models didn't prepare executives for the ensuing backlash.
The Man Who Solved the Market is the dramatic story of how Jim Simons and a group of unlikely mathematicians remade Wall Street and transformed the world.
##“Simons could be remembered for what he did with his fortune, as well as how he made it.”
评分##还真就鸡肋呗,读之无味弃之可惜… WSJ出来的那帮人怎么写得都一样,全部一个套路。浅尝即止,没有任何特殊的思考角度,深度,对市场或者人物性格剖析。最多只能感叹一句Simons真的是天选之子,又获得傲人学术成就又能赚大钱,但是同时又很可怜两次白发人送黑发人。他们根本没有solved the market啊??他们也不知道自己策略为什么work好吗。最后,据说这次危机里面文艺复兴已经亏了20%了… 所以说不能太早写传记
评分##欧美经管人物传记类基本上都是流水账,哪怕是乔布斯的也一样。这本前半可以,干货新知以及作为经验教训先例的旁观者都有的看。后半有一些味同嚼蜡,合伙人中晚年享受退休生活,要么参与政治献金要么撕破脸。一家资产管理投资基金公司,招人从不认“大难临头最容易各自飞”的华尔街“人才”,面试只要写论文做演讲以及测试是否接受得了“刁难”。“我能教会他们所有金融知识,但无法直接让他们变聪明。”
评分##2020 book club #2
评分##比外面看到的要艰辛许多。
评分##...main takeaway: they're not flash boys.
评分##大奖章作为人类历史上投资回报最高的基金,其在宽客心中如上帝般高高在上。此书带给我的最大震撼,是宽客之神西蒙斯的三次非量化之举。海湾战争爆发,他推倒系统,买入石油看涨期权对冲风险并减仓1/3;纳指泡沫时西蒙斯在危机面前迅速放弃经仔细研判后认定为明显错误的动量信号,减少损失;在金融危机前夕他不顾其他人的阻挠,声称“我们的任务是活下来,即使我们错了,后面还可以加仓”,快速削减仓位,西蒙斯认为20个标准差外的事件必须以非常手段来对待,结果错过了逆势加仓的好机会。最近的18年底西蒙斯还给自己的信托基金致电要求做空部分仓位以对冲风险。西蒙斯这类不惜牺牲对系统决策的信仰而寻求自保的态度也促使他在89年救基金于水火,快速撤离,避免了自己的券商倒闭,期权过期的窘境--当你嗅到烟味,就赶紧他妈的逃!
评分##讲Jim Simons成立文艺复兴前的那一段很有意思,Mercer的政治影响也有意思。不要期待有太多量化干货,但看上去也还靠谱。超级多的小八卦和趣闻轶事。
评分##讲Jim Simons成立文艺复兴前的那一段很有意思,Mercer的政治影响也有意思。不要期待有太多量化干货,但看上去也还靠谱。超级多的小八卦和趣闻轶事。
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