2026.06.02 17:41

The fund Nassim Taleb advises returned 4,144% in a single quarter - while the S&P 500 was crashing "A high Sharpe ratio is the best indicator of a bankruptcy of a fund." Correlation, standard deviation, portfolio theory - in a fat-tailed world Taleb says they don't just fail, they fail backwards. ~20-min talk, free. Greenwich Economic Forum, Miami - the Black Swan author

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0xDipper@Dipper_pol

2026.06.01 20:14

$1 in his fund in 1988 turned into ~$14M. 66% a year for 30 years. Zero losing years Jim Simons didn't hire bankers. He hired physicists, astronomers and mathematicians - "you can teach a physicist finance, but you can't teach a finance person physics." Renaissance ran on the patterns the rest of Wall Street called noise. 45-min conversation, free, interviewed by the man who runs the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.

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