Hedge Fund - Renaissance Technologies

NEW YORK, May 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- James Simons, founder and chairman of Renaissance Technologies, took home $1.7 billion in 2017 to claim the No.

Michael Platt of BlueCrest Capital cemented his position atop the list of highest-earning hedge fund managers, taking home a cool $2 billion in earnings in 2017.

(Bloomberg) -- Renaissance Technologies, the $58 billion quantitative investment firm founded by former military code-breaker Jim Simons, gained at three of its hedge funds last month, erasing declines...

Quantitative hedge funds have been on an absolute tear over the past few months, posting gains in 15 of the past 17 weeks according to data compiled by Societe Generale.

Even as the stock market capped off a third day of gains following a foray into correction territory last week, safe-haven assets are enjoying a moment in the sun.

Quantitative funds are gaining more ground among hedge funds in terms of trading volume and inflow of capital.

The hedge fund industry may be mired in performance woes and closures, but you wouldn't know it from the immense earnings that the top hedge fund managers pulled down in 2016; even when some of them aren...

Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals dropped Tuesday after news surfaced late Monday that billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman sold his remaining stock in the company.

Billionaire Leon Cooperman invoked his Fifth-Amendment right against self-incrimination while the SEC was investigating him for insider trading because his lawyer disclosed that the hedge-fund manager...