具体描述
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.
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##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##西蒙斯无疑是特别的，他自身并不是杰出的交易者，直到2018年都还会因为股市暴跌而感到焦虑万分，但是他开创了用机器交易的道路，并且组建了一支华尔街局外人的团队并且取得了成功。从他的故事里面或许很难学到多少交易的经验，但是他的经历无疑足够有趣，这本书值得一读。
评分##西蒙斯无疑是特别的，他自身并不是杰出的交易者，直到2018年都还会因为股市暴跌而感到焦虑万分，但是他开创了用机器交易的道路，并且组建了一支华尔街局外人的团队并且取得了成功。从他的故事里面或许很难学到多少交易的经验，但是他的经历无疑足够有趣，这本书值得一读。
评分##“Simons could be remembered for what he did with his fortune, as well as how he made it.”
评分##终于读完了这本关于最牛逼（之一）也最神秘的对冲基金文艺复兴，和其创始人Jim Simons的流水账……Good life story，最后谈到2018年12月美股crash的时候，即使是Simons也打电话给自己的Family Office 负责人，问”我们要不要做空市场来对冲风险“？所以理性决策是多么多么难……
评分##COVID read
评分##欧美经管人物传记类基本上都是流水账，哪怕是乔布斯的也一样。这本前半可以，干货新知以及作为经验教训先例的旁观者都有的看。后半有一些味同嚼蜡，合伙人中晚年享受退休生活，要么参与政治献金要么撕破脸。一家资产管理投资基金公司，招人从不认“大难临头最容易各自飞”的华尔街“人才”，面试只要写论文做演讲以及测试是否接受得了“刁难”。“我能教会他们所有金融知识，但无法直接让他们变聪明。”
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##讲Jim Simons成立文艺复兴前的那一段很有意思，Mercer的政治影响也有意思。不要期待有太多量化干货，但看上去也还靠谱。超级多的小八卦和趣闻轶事。
