Jim Simons, a mathematician who became one of the most successful investors in modern financial history, has died at age 86.

Billionaire Jim Simons, an acclaimed mathematician who went on to found one of the most profitable trading firms of all time and pioneered the field of quantitative investing, has died at the age ...

"Jim Simons spots patterns ... developed a "self-correcting" version of this trading approach that could "double down on successful strategies and cut losing ones". These techniques, now called ...

Hedge fund managers such as James Simons, a former mathematics professor, of Renaissance Technologies used quantitative trading to produce market-beating gains. Quantitative trading has grown ...

Others compare him to Jim Simons, the pioneer of quantitative investing ... Liang and his colleagues have focused on medium-frequency trading where positions can be held longer.