With a net worth of $20 billion and degrees from MIT and UC Berkeley, mathematician and Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons is often dubbed the “world’s smartest billionaire.” The quantitative investor got his start trading commodities while working on his PhD at Berkeley and after two decades working in mathematics, launched his hedge fund in […]

The vicious jail sentences handed down today by the fascists (I used the word with care and correctly) of the Spanish Supreme Court to the Catalan political prisoners represent a stark symbol of the nadir of liberalism within the EU. That an attempt to organise a democratic vote for the Catalan people in pursuit of […]

Paul Sedgwick, chief investment officer at Frank Investments, says that we ‘could see the pound recover’. He explains that, with the weakness in sterling, he would have expected the FTSE 100 to have performed better than it has done this year.