EPISODE · Nov 5, 2019 · 10 MIN
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
from Access Essential Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Business · host Wilfrid Hegmann
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Author: Gregory Zuckerman Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The perfect gift for the avid reader on your list: the unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm--and made $23 billion doing it. Jim 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. *Includes a PDF of Appendices 1 and 2 with charts
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Author: Gregory Zuckerman Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The perfect gift for the avid reader on your list: the unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm--and made $23 billion doing it. Jim 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. *Includes a PDF of Appendices 1 and 2 with charts
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