Renaissance, Schonfeld, and Engineers Gate stung in a shaky start for quants in 2026

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An Indian broker reacts while trading at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, January 22, 2008. Shares from Sydney to London sank for a second day on Tuesday, dragging commodity prices with them and promising similar falls for Wall Street as investors abandoned assets exposed to the risk of a global economic slowdown.

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Quant hedge funds recovered from October's shaky start — except for one big name that suffered serious losses

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The late Jim Simons founded Renaissance Technologies

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Quant pioneer Renaissance Technologies' painful summer continued in July

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Jim Simons at a gala in March 2019.

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An elite hedge fund slashed its Nvidia and Tesla bets last quarter — and boosted its GameStop stake

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Jensen Huang is CEO of Nvidia, the world's most valuable company.

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An elite hedge fund bought 1 million GameStop shares before the meme stock's 400% surge

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Renaissance Technologies bought 1 million GameStop shares last quarter.

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Jim Simons, the legendary hedge-fund manager who cracked the market, dead at 86

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Jim Simons.

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The CEO of a hedge fund that averaged 70% returns over 2 decades doesn't regret sleeping 2,000 nights in his office: 'I really don't see how I could do it otherwise'

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Hedge fund CEO says staff installed mirrors around the office to stop him from crashing into them while he rode a unicycle

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Renaissance Technologies boss Peter Brown said staff once had to install mirrors around the office to stop him crashing into them.

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The CEO of a hedge fund that averaged a 66% return for 3 decades spoke about investing, hiring, and sleeping 2,000 nights in his office. Here are the 11 best quotes.

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