NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 Reads more like a delicious page turning novel Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge fund honcho Bloomberg A compelling read Economist Captivating New York Times book reviewJim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history His record bests those of legendary investors including Warren Buffett George Soros and Ray Dalio Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simons s secretive hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods After a legendary career as a mathematician and a stint breaking Soviet codes Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach Simons hired physicists mathematicians and computer scientists most of whom knew little about finance to amass piles of data and build algorithms hunting for the deeply hidden patterns in global markets Experts scoffed but Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest in the world their strategy of creating mathematical models and crunching data embraced by almost every industry today As
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GREGORY ZUCKERMAN es redactor especializado en el Wall Street Journal. En él, escribe sobre empresas financieras, personalidades y operaciones, así como sobre fondos de cobertura y otros temas de inversión y negocios. Ganador en tres ocasiones del premio Gerald Loeb, la máxima distinción del periodismo de finanzas. Zuckerman participa regularmente en programas de la CNBC, Fox Business y de otras cadenas de televisión y emisoras de radios e imparte conferencias en todo el mundo.