James Simons
James Simons founded his first investment firm, Limroy, in 1978.
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Performance of American Students In Math and Science
Renaissance Technologies must recruit more than half of it's staff from abroad every year because of the lack of U.S. citizens skilled in math.
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Renaissance Technologies's Wikipedia Entry
Renaissance Technologies' average annual return since 1989 is 35%.
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Medallion Hedge Fund
This Wall Street Journal article says that James Simons and his employees will be the sole investors in the medallion hedge fund at the end of 2005.
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"Certain price patterns are nonrandom and will lead to a predictive effect."
Renaissance's Medallion fund trades only in publicly traded, highly liquid securities.
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