Oct 16, 2022 · American billionaire Jim Simons is conducting charity in Nepal in memory of his late son Nick Simons. The 84-year-old mathematician has been providing medical assistance to Nepal for over 16 years. He had helped in the expansion of hospital services via the Nick Foundation and also established Gorkha Hospital.

He is the son of the founder of Renaissance Technologies, Jim Simons. Simons is also the co-founder and a director of the Sea Change Foundation, which focuses on climate change and clean energy policy.

Another son, Nick Simons, drowned at age 24 while on a trip to Bali in Indonesia in 2003. Nick had worked in Nepal . The Simons have become large donors to Nepalese healthcare through the Nick Simons Institute.

Tragically, in 1996, his son Paul, aged 34, was fatally hit by a car while riding his bicycle on Long Island. In 2003, his son Nicholas, aged 24, drowned during a trip to Bali, Indonesia.

We’re excited to dig into how Jim Simons created his wealth and structured his family office to reveal the hidden lessons from a family office perspective that have made all this possible. Jim Simons, a mathematical genius, shattered the mold of traditional investing.

Simons, who lost his son Paul at the age of 34 from a bike accident in 1996 and his son Nicholas in 2003 when he drowned off Indonesia, gave from his wallet, his intellect and his heart.

May 11, 2024 · James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation’s biggest philanthropists, died May 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.

Jan 14, 2021 · Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons has named the hedge fund’s chief executive Peter Brown as sole chairman, a position many expected to go to his son Nathaniel Simons, who was named...

Jan 23, 2020 · Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons has named his son co-chairman of the quantitative hedge fund’s board and added five new directors, as he steps up preparations to hand over the...

May 11, 2024 · But his life was marked by family tragedies. His elder son, Paul, was killed in New York in 1996 in a traffic accident, and his younger son, Nick drowned in Bali in 2003 after a volunteering stint in Nepal.