Richard Dennis was born in 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. He began trading commodities in the early 1970s and quickly achieved success. In 1983, he and his partner William Eckhardt conducted a famous “Turtle Trader Experiment.” They recruited 23 people without trading experience and trained them …
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (born June 5, 1883, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England—died April 21, 1946, Firle, Sussex), English economist, journalist, and financier best known for his economic theories (Keynesian economics) on the causes of prolonged unemployment. Keynes was educated at Eton College and King’s …
James Harris Simons (born April 25, 1938) aka Jim Simons is an American mathematician, billionaire hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund firm that manages over $100 billion in assets. Simons is also a …
George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He is the founder and chairman of Soros Fund Management, a global investment firm. Soros is known for his successful track record in currency trading, particularly his short sale of the British pound sterling …