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Re:Jim Simons has died by datadrivenangel on Friday May 10, 2024 @01:00PM (#40321245)
Aren't there some shenanigans with those numbers around their larger funds not doing as well?

It's easy to make a few high margin dollars, hard to make a lot of high margin dollars.

Re:Jim Simons has died by makestuff on Friday May 10, 2024 @01:09PM (#40321358)
They limited the fund size so employees frequently got distributions from the fund instead of just rolling over their investments. However, the distributions were still in the millions of dollars.

They also got into some tax trouble with uncle sam and had to pay 7b in back taxes (https://www.wsj.com/articles/james-simons-robert-mercer-othe...)

Re:Jim Simons has died by danielmarkbruce on Friday May 10, 2024 @02:14PM (#40322096)
depends on your definition of "few". Rentech made a "few" for very large "few".
Re:Jim Simons has died by paulpauper on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:41PM (#40323584)
lol . Only made tens of billion. What a failure.