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.”
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评分##刚出版的新书《解决市场的人:西蒙斯如何开创了量化革命》,不管是做基本面还是做量化投资的金融市场专业人员都可以看看。文艺复兴公司的大奖章基金长期年化收益率66%真是神奇的事。里面描绘他早期做的很多期货投机,后来的量化,多次巨额亏损接近清盘,合伙人分道扬镳等等。可惜书里没有说到文艺复兴的老板捐款上亿美元给川普竞选总统成功的事。
评分##“Simons could be remembered for what he did with his fortune, as well as how he made it.”
评分##一本全面的介绍,Jim Simons早期作为一名天才的数学家获得了成功,后来他成功破解了苏联的通讯密码,并以文艺复兴科技公司为代表在金融投资界掀起了一场革命。通过使用海量数据、算法和计算,他改变了全球金融的运作方式。在积累了巨大的财富之后,他现在是众多组织和进步倡议的有力资助者。https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/lgRbyYyMCc1SgzX7ElJWwQ
评分##19#15 (又一本)曾经求翻而未得的书。略有失望,但仍然有趣,结尾稍弱,整体只能算是中规中矩。Simmons虽然招募了一支才华横溢的科学家团队,“launch”了量化革命,但严格地“the man who solved the market”的标题有标题党之嫌。与LTCM之间的对比很有趣。但大奖章仍然是那个神秘的大奖章,中间几个章节充斥着“进一步改进了算法”、“效果拔群”之类的描述,但干货太少。作为2019年最后一本书(highly likely),希望自己明年也能solve一些东西吧。
评分##【第三十三本】要读一本英文原著真是费时间啊,前前后后读了三周时间。像文艺复兴基金,西蒙斯这样的高频量化基金的故事总是充满了神秘和向往,打败市场对传奇和量化高频交易的鼻祖,让很多人神往。但是真的读了这本书后才发现,整个公司的创始和发展历程充满了波折和变化,即使是西蒙斯这样的学术大拿也不是说轻松搞定市场的,何况最大的调整不仅仅是模型,而是如何管理手下这么多天才和科学家,让大家能在同一个平台为同一个目标一起努力,这远比西蒙斯研究数学问题要来的复杂的多。从Baum到Ax到Berlecamp到Mercier和Brown,从最初的趋势交易到指标交易,慢慢过渡到后来完全机器自动交易,即使取得巨大的成功,但是碰到了2008年金融危机时西蒙斯还是不能完全信任程序判断,要人为干预仓位,所以投资真是一项反人性的事
评分##[有声书] 因为格外喜欢数学天才的故事,所以这本听下来觉得还是相当精彩的!尤其是Simons团队以机器学习算法为主体的投资方案,虽然书也没有揭秘多少,但对于我这种对投资毫无了解的读者来说,大概念讲得清晰,逸闻趣事也是丰富多彩。早期和发迹的故事固然好听,但印象最深的反而是结尾处关于这些金融大鳄们“涉足”政治,尤其是2016年Trump的当选和之后的种种,多少让人有些唏嘘。另外Simons的philanthropy也是杠杠的,不说书里提到的高光项目了,哪怕是AMS提供的Simons Travel Grant也是资助了我好多数学同事们的科研项目,真是惠及无数啊!所以有钱还是别参与政治,多给广大人民提供摸得到的帮助吧,哈哈!
评分##比外面看到的要艰辛许多。
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