On Wall Street, fortunes are usually told through handshakes, boardroom charm, and access to corner offices. The story behind turning $100 into $398 million cuts against all of that, showing what ...

James Harris (‘Jim’) Simons, the mathematician and billionaire philanthropist who set up a foundation to improve Nepal’s healthcare system, died in New York on 10 May, aged 86. Jim Simons was an award ...

Jim Simons's Medallion Fund averaged 66% annual returns for three decades, using math that would make ChatGPT weep Jim Simons was trying to solve a puzzle. Billions of dollars fell out when he cracked ...

Lee Fang is an investigative reporter at leefang.com. Jim Simons’ mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into a legendary financier whose algorithmic ...