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- Jim Simons, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, has died.
- The legendary investor was 86.
- Simons founded Renaissance Technologies and was a codebreaker, mathematician, and philanthropist.
Jim Simons, the legendary billionaire hedge-fund manager who founded the wildly successful Renaissance Technologies, died on Friday, his foundation announced on its website.
He was 86 years old.