Since the onset of COVID-19, and through a tumultuous period in markets, commodity hedge funds have quietly delivered an incredible performance, outpacing most, if not all, major investment...

Jim Simons recently participated in three interviews hosted by MIT, covering mathematics, finance, and philanthropy. These are rare and lengthy conversations with one of the industry’s most...

There was an opinion piece recently posted on Bloomberg titled “Why the Quants Aren’t Adding Up.” In it, Satyajit Das describes why the recent relative underperformance of quantitative strategies (by...

Download as a PDF Introduction There’s a short preference test in this paper that most readers, if not all, will answer incorrectly. It’s a “preference test” (and not a quiz) because selections...

At a recent conference I turned to an older colleague and asked, “What did this used to be like?” If you added the context of our setting and conversation, what I really said was, “When this industry...