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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- March 18, 2024
- Duration
- 3h 10m
- Channel
- Acquired
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an “investor”, at least in any traditional sense of the word. It’d rather be more accurate to call them scientists — scientists who’ve discovered a system of math, computers and artificial intelligence that has evolved into the greatest money making machine the world has ever seen. And boy does it work: RenTec’s alchemic colossus has posted annual returns in the firm’s flagship Medallion Fund of 68% gross and 40% net over the past 34 years, *while never once losing money*. (For those keeping track at home, $1,000 invested in Medallion in 1988 would have compounded to $46.5B today… if you’d been allowed to keep it in.) Tune in for an incredible story of the small group of rebel mathematicians who didn’t just beat the market, but in the words of author Greg Zuckerman “solved it.” *Links:*
- The Man Who Solved the Market: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/073521798X
- The Quants: https://www.amazon.com/Quants-Whizzes-Conquered-Street-Destroyed/dp/0307453383
- Bloomberg’s 2016 RenTec profile: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renaissance-s-medallion-fund-became-finance-s-blackest-box?embedded-checkout=true
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SPEAKERS
Ben Gilbert
hostDavid Rosenthal
host
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Acquired, featuring Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, Renaissance Technologies (Audio) explores Renaissance Technologies’ secret quant playbook and unbeatable Medallion fund returns Acquired profiles Renaissance Technologies (RenTech) and its flagship Medallion Fund, which has delivered roughly ~66–68% gross and ~40% net annualized returns over decades—outperforming every famous investor and hedge fund, largely in secrecy.
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