Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-024342
Reviews
"A gripping biography of investment game changer Jim Simons... readers looking to understand how the economy got where it is should eat this up." - Publishers Weekly "Zuckerman vividly tells the story of how Jim Simons and his team of scientists developed the most successful quantitative trading operation in history. . . . Immensely enjoyable." --Edward O. Thorp, author of A Man for All Markets "An extremely well-written and engaging book . . . a must read, and a fun one at that." --Mohamed A. El-Erian, author of The Only Game in Town "Leave it to the Wall Street Journal's Greg Zuckerman to lay open the golden mysteries of quantitative investing. With this fine, humane, and eye-opening book, he's well and truly broken the code." --James Grant, Grant's Interest Rate Observer, "A gripping biography of investment game changer Jim Simons... readers looking to understand how the economy got where it is should eat this up." -- Publishers Weekly "So compelling, filled with so many fascinating characters and new information... The book reads more like a delicious page-turning novel than the usual finance tome. Destined to become an instant classic...my nominee for financial book of the year." --Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg "Gregory Zuckerman lifts the lid on the most fascinating man in financial markets...superb reporting." --Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times "Worthwhile reading for budding plutocrats and numerate investors alike." -- Kirkus "Zuckerman vividly tells the story of how Jim Simons and his team of scientists developed the most successful quantitative trading operation in history. . . . Immensely enjoyable." --Edward O. Thorp, author of A Man for All Markets "An extremely well-written and engaging book . . . a must read, and a fun one at that." --Mohamed A. El-Erian, author of The Only Game in Town "Leave it to the Wall Street Journal's Greg Zuckerman to lay open the golden mysteries of quantitative investing. With this fine, humane, and eye-opening book, he's well and truly broken the code." --James Grant, Grant's Interest Rate Observer "The fascinating, page-turning tale of a complicated man and the movement he started, rendered in accessible prose and full of bravura storytelling." --Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success, "A gripping biography of investment game changer Jim Simons... readers looking to understand how the economy got where it is should eat this up." -- Publishers Weekly "So compelling, filled with so many fascinating characters and new information... The book reads more like a delicious page-turning novel than the usual finance tome. Destined to become an instant classic...my nominee for financial book of the year." --Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg "Gregory Zuckerman lifts the lid on the most fascinating man in financial markets...superb reporting." --Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times "Zuckerman brings the reader so close to the firm's inner workings that you can almost catch a whiff of the billionaire's Merit cigarette." --Brandon Kochkodin, Bloomberg "Worthwhile reading for budding plutocrats and numerate investors alike." -- Kirkus "Zuckerman vividly tells the story of how Jim Simons and his team of scientists developed the most successful quantitative trading operation in history. . . . Immensely enjoyable." --Edward O. Thorp, author of A Man for All Markets "An extremely well-written and engaging book . . . a must read, and a fun one at that." --Mohamed A. El-Erian, author of The Only Game in Town "Leave it to the Wall Street Journal's Greg Zuckerman to lay open the golden mysteries of quantitative investing. With this fine, humane, and eye-opening book, he's well and truly broken the code." --James Grant, Grant's Interest Rate Observer "The fascinating, page-turning tale of a complicated man and the movement he started, rendered in accessible prose and full of bravura storytelling." --Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success
Dewey Edition
23
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Dewey Decimal
332.6092
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Financial Times /McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm-and made $23 billion doing it. The greatest money maker in modern financial history, no other investor-Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros-has touched Jim Simons' record. Since 1988, Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion, and upon his passing, Simons left a legacy of investors who use his mathematical, computer-oriented approach to trading and building wealth. Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees, Zuckerman, a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic approach that's swept the world. As Renaissance became a market force, its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research, education, and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump's victorious 2016 effort. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit. The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm and his country. It's also a story of what Simons's revolution will mean for the rest of us long after his death in 2024., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers , answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it? Shortlisted for the Financial Times /McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars. Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees, Zuckerman, a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic approach that's sweeping the world. As Renaissance became a market force, its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research, education, and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump's victorious 2016 effort. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit. The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm and his country. It's also a story of what Simons's revolution means for the rest of us., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Financial Times /McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm--and made $23 billion doing it. Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars. Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees, Zuckerman, a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic approach that's sweeping the world. As Renaissance became a market force, its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research, education, and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump's victorious 2016 effort. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit. The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm and his country. It's also a story of what Simons's revolution means for the rest of us.
LC Classification Number
HC102.5.A38S56 2019
Copyright Date
2019
ebay_catalog_id
4
