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Jim Simons didn't want finance majors at Ren Tech. He believed they brought bias, not breakthroughs. Instead, he built his team with PhD’s in physics, math, and computer science.
The result? A hedge fund with 39% average annual returns and one of the best track records in history.
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This is Einstein at Princeton, 1935.
He was tasked to find which young physicists would revolutionize science.
His unconventional method found Oppenheimer, Wheeler, and Nobel-Prize winners before anyone knew their names.
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“They have hired astronomers; they have hired mathematicians; they have hired physicists; they have even hired theologists. They never even interviewed an economist.”
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
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In the market of ideas and technology, the top performers are at least 10x more valuable than the average performers—making hiring of utmost importance
Tyler Cowen • Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent
More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Volatility Swaps
Explores volatility and variance swaps, their properties, uses for trading and hedging volatility exposure, and methods for replication and valuation using options, while addressing practical challenges and implications of volatility skews.
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Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking
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