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Renaissance Technologies LLC, also known as RenTech [4] or RenTec, [5] is an American hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York, [6] on Long Island, which specializes in systematic trading using quantitative models derived from mathematical and statistical analysis.
Around 1993, he suggested to IBM that the statistical method could be applied to finance, such as managing the $28 billion pension fund of IBM, but the suggestion was not taken up. [13] [16] Jim Simons offered to double Peter Brown's and Robert Mercer's IBM salaries, so they went to work for Renaissance Technologies in 1993. [17]
Robert Leroy Mercer (born July 11, 1946) [2] is an American hedge fund manager, computer scientist, and political donor. Mercer was an early artificial intelligence researcher and developer and is the former co-CEO of the hedge fund company Renaissance Technologies.
David Mitchell Magerman (born 1968) is an American computer scientist and philanthropist. He spent 22 years working for an investment management company and hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies. He spent 22 years working for an investment management company and hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies.
A group of IBM researchers went on to work for Renaissance Technologies. Jelinek wrote, "The performance of the Renaissance fund is legendary, but I have no idea whether any methods we pioneered at IBM have ever been used. My former colleagues will not tell me: theirs is a very hush-hush operation!"
Dr. Robert J. Frey is a former Managing Director of Renaissance Technologies Corp (1992–2004) and presently serves as a Research Professor on the faculty of Stony Brook University where he is the Founder and Director of the Program in Quantitative Finance within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics.
Nathaniel Simons (born 1966) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. [1] [2] He is the founder of Meritage Group, an investment management firm managing over $12 billion in assets, co-founder of Prelude Ventures, a clean tech investment fund, and is the former co-chair of Renaissance Technologies, one of the largest hedge funds in the world.
Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1954 by BBC Radio, and from 1950 to 1951 by Radio Luxembourg.It was written by and starred Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne as officers in a fictional Royal Air Force station coping with red tape and the inconveniences and incongruities of life in the Second World War.