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Cliff Asness - Simple Investing is Hard (EP.385)
- ▶ 33:59 Ted Seides Then you have the stream of let's call it Renaissance or something that's pure machine learning.
Dmitry Balyasny – Multi-Strategy Platform at BAM (EP.341)
- ▶ 1:26:57 Dmitry Balyasny I would trade all day and then call Renaissance and try to get capacity after the markets closed.
Richard Craib – Crowdsourcing Data Science for Returns at Numerai (Capital Allocators, EP.314)
- ▶ 6:56 Richard Craib So there were many funds that were trading with very short-term signals, a fund like Renaissance would, would classify, which I looked up to.
- ▶ 12:24 Richard Craib Howard Morgan was a co-founder of Renaissance, and I just luckily met him a few weeks before running out of money.
- ▶ 46:40 Richard Craib That he's going to stop liking us or something, but he's always very helpful and, and obviously super knowledgeable with his background at Renaissance and in so many other hedge funds.
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 27:57 Ted Seides So I had a conversation on the podcast with Ashwin Chopra, who manages the family office for Jim Simons of Renaissance.
Ashvin Chhabra – The Aspirational Investor (Capital Allocators, EP.260)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Ashvin Chhabra, the president and chief investment officer of Euclidean Capital, the family office for Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies.
Leda Braga – Systematica Investments (Manager Meetings, EP.10)
- ▶ 35:23 Mario Therrien And the second by Greg Zuckerman, the man who solved the markets, which depicts the rise and evolution of the medallion fund with Jim Simon's Renaissance.
Julia Bonafede – Rosetta Analytics (Manager Meetings, EP.04)
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
Ted Seides - Capital Allocators Year in Review (Capital Allocators, EP.170)
- ▶ 19:45 Ted Seides Number two, Gregory Zuckerman, Decoding Renaissance Medallion, episode one 19.
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 39:58 unnamed speaker So I love the corollary that you used, you know, you said Buffett's maybe call it worth ninety billion dollars, and Jim Simons at Renaissance is worth a lot, but a lot less.
Matthew Granade – Inside Data Science at Point72 (First Meeting, EP.22)
- ▶ 12:53 Matthew Granade And one of the thoughts we had was that this idea that had been pioneered at Renaissance, and Bridgewater, and D.
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 4:52 Ted Seides We then turn to his recent tome on Jim Simons and Renaissance, including the formation and evolution of the medallion fund, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:20 Ted Seides Before we dive into your book on Jim Simons and Renaissance, I want to touch a little bit on the greatest trade ever.
- ▶ 17:57 Ted Seides I mean, and this is, we're talking the mid and late eighties when no one was talking about predicting how much capital were they managing back then? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:01 Gregory Zuckerman And so again, in 1994, they're managing about seven, eight hundred million dollars, and people at the firm were satisfied. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Ted Seides What was it about the way they were investing in the equity markets that worked? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:12 Ted Seides To what degree does that streak of contrarianism filter through both Jim and the organization? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:16 Gregory Zuckerman Reef was this outside fund that finally, Renaissance is finally taking outside money. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Ted Seides The other piece of it is it's easy to look at Renaissance today and say, man, these guys created the ultimate money machine. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:15 Ted Seides There are other quants that presumably are trying to attack markets in the same way, and yet Renaissance has had dramatically more success. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:20 Gregory Zuckerman You know, I don't mean to bring any bad luck to Renaissance and Jim Simons, but we'll see how they do going forward.
- ▶ 43:35 Gregory Zuckerman So this is over the course of his history when he established the firm and established some of the culture within the firm, but he motivates people in remarkable way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:00 Ted Seides So now that he's sort of stepped away from the firm and it still continues to go and crank on, what is the future of Renaissance look like? 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:57 Gregory Zuckerman He subsidizes math teachers in New York City and New York State, gives them 10,000, or I think 15,000 dollars each, the top ones, and so that they don't leave to go to private industry places like Renaissance. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:53 Ted Seides So the people there, the 330 people may have access to the code, but you have this guy who's an educator by heart, who's turned to crack the code on the market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:07 Gregory Zuckerman So we talk about different periods of his life, including at Renaissance and stuff he was comfortable talking about.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy – O'Shaughnessy Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.01)
- ▶ 22:56 Ted Seides You know, I'm thinking like a Renaissance or AQR that come to mind that are just much bigger than OSAM.
Michael Mauboussin – Who's on the Other Side (Capital Allocators, EP.99)
- ▶ 35:16 Michael Mauboussin You know, I don't want to compete with the Renaissance Technologies or Two Sigma, certainly on their playing field.
Matt Botein – Flexible Investing and Institutional Challenges (Capital Allocators, EP.88)
- ▶ 58:14 Matt Botein So there's still, if you're a Rentech, Two Sigma, they still do it.
Steve Kuhn – Life After Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.85)
- ▶ 22:40 Steve Kuhn So you have the renaissances of the world who are obviously most brilliant minds on the planet, and they're playing a game at a very different level than even most hedge funds, frankly. 2 times in the scene
Rick Selvala - Harvesting Volatility (Capital Allocators, EP.41)
- ▶ 38:47 Ted Seides In the equity world, we hear a lot about computer technology, big data, the quants, the big, you know, renaissances, and, uh, two sigmas of the world.
Tom Lenehan – Perpetual Thinking at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.04)
- ▶ 46:11 Tom Lenehan So, you know, I hate to use names at the risk of my own career, but Jim Simons is on our committee from Renaissance, and he is a life trustee of Rockefeller.