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  • The Man Who Solved the Market

  • By: Gregory Zuckerman
  • Narrated by: Will Damron
  • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (704 ratings)

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The Man Who Solved the Market

By: Gregory Zuckerman
Narrated by: Will Damron
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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

Shortlisted for Theft and Mckinsey business book of the year award 2019

The first and fascinating look into the mind of Jim Simons, the shy billionaire who revolutionised Wall Street.

Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simons's secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods.

After a legendary career as a mathematician and a stint breaking Soviet codes, Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach. Simons hired physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists - most of whom knew little about finance - to amass piles of data and build algorithms hunting for the deeply hidden patterns in global markets. Experts scoffed, but Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest in the world, their strategy of creating mathematical models and crunching data embraced by almost every industry today.

As Renaissance became a major player in the financial world, its executives began exerting influence on other areas. Simons became a major force in scientific research, education and Democratic politics, funding Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign. While senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency - he placed Steve Bannon in the campaign, funded Trump's victorious 2016 effort and backed alt-right publication Breitbart. Mercer also impacted the success of the Brexit campaign as he made significant investments in Cambridge Anatlytica. For all his prescience, Simons failed to anticipate how Mercer's activity would impact his firm and the world.

In this fast-paced narrative, Zuckerman examines how Simons launched a quantitative revolution on Wall Street and reveals the impact that Simons, the quiet billionaire king of the quants, has had on worlds well beyond finance.

©2019 Gregory Zuckerman (P)2019 Penguin Audio
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Critic reviews

"Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho." (Bloomberg)

"A compelling read." (Economist)

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Fascinating and well-written account

Great for those with an interest in finance, the markets and quirky quants who make billions and use their wealth to influence politics and life for good and evil.

Brilliantly written and a good audio performance.

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As a Quant, I gained more insight ...

This has been the best book I read all year, it's historical yet engaging and at every point I didn't want to drop it . it mentioned challenges Simon faced, such challenges I can personally relate to and it also mentions the future of quant finance as a whole . This book is very relevant and I will definitely listen to this again.

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Beautifully written, balanced and informative

A beautiful book full of financial insights, inspiring personal stories and political intrigue. The audio book is very well read with a pleasant voice

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very interesting

A really interesting story and one that anyone who in interested in stock markets or machine learning should read.

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Enlightening

As with other great books, you leave with many questions. The story is a mix between the life of Simons, and selected important people on his lifes way. I found this to be a great way to tell his story. Even tough some parts, fx. the involvement of a main charecter in US politics, became a bit too much.

I rate five stars, because the story and the way it is told is intriguing. Because the book is understandable, and wakes the desire to learn more about math, finance, Simons and his gang.

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Loved this book, best finance book I’ve read in years

Meticulously researched, fair, kind, Simons is treated with respect and admiration but with scrutiny. There are rich descriptions of those around him who come and go from his life and play such an important role in his success as well as detail around the markets and his competitors which put his achievements in context. As somebody who has been wrestling with maths and the markets most of my life I was moved to tears at times by the human side of this story. The inspiration of Simons’ persistence and humility is perhaps his greatest legacy. Generally very well narrated; I took one point off for repeated “Simons’s”which grated a little - would have preferred Simons’ for the possessive.

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I enjoyed it throughly.

Only one chapter was boring out of 16 chapters. I recommend if you like math, science and books about scientists

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Fascinating.

Great story and educational at the same time. Opened my eyes to the new age of man and machine finance.

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Amazing story but bad storytelling

The author gets lost into his political judgements instead of focusing in how Renaissance and its founders revolutionised investing and the Quant dynamics.

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Very entertaining

Very entertaining but lacks technical details for the savy reader looking for insight into Renaissance actual trading.

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