When you think of the greatest investor of all time, that answer would seem incredibly obvious – Warren Buffet. A name that has been associated with billion-dollar investments, longer than most of us have been alive.

But you would be wrong!

Because for those within Wall Street, for those intimately familiar with the ruthless world of finance, it is Jim Simons. A lifelong mathematician who went from lecturing at M.I.T. to building a multi-billion dollar hedge fund named Renaissance Technologies.

Since 1988, Simon’s flagship fund, Medallion, has achieved an almost unbelievable annual return of 66%, helping his firm balloon to over $100 billion in AUM.

As a result, Simons's net worth sits at a stunning $28 billion, making him the one of richest men in the world.

So how did he do it? How did a mathematician conquer Wall Street? And how did Jim Simons become the world’s greatest investor? Let's find out!

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0:00 - Introduction: How A Mathematician Became The World’s Greatest Investor
1:19 - Chapter 1: A Child Genius
5:37 - Chapter 2: A Soviet Code Cracker
8:02 - Chapter 3: The Beginning Of An Empire
12:15 - Chapter 4: A New Beginning
14:23 - Chapter 5: A Turning Point
16:56 - Chapter 6: Simon’s Secret Weapon
18:28 - Chapter 7: Dot-Com Trouble
20:05 - Chapter 8: The Golden Age
22:39 - Chapter 9: The End Of An Era
25:03 - Chapter 10: Today’s Renaissance Technologies

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