Quant Forum - Questions for a Renaissance Technologies Quant ?

Question: In a Bloomberg article from June 2007 Simons was quoted "'trend-following is not such a good model. It's simply eroded.' Why/How did they launch a futures fund (which I presume is a long-term trend follower in liquid futures since they say it's designed to run up to $50bln) in October of the same year and allegedly collect $5bln in investors money in record time?
 
Quote from ASusilovic:

Hi altogether,

I suppose some Quants visting ET...In a couple of days I will have the opportunity to question a quant working at Renaissance Technologies ( for the Renaissance Instutional Futures Fund ). As I am NOT A QUANT, I would like to ask ET members whether somebody has some brilliant questions so that at least I would not pass up the chance...

I prefer serious input !

:)
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Ahem... this is ET, for serious input I suggest you visit this place:

http://www.nuclearphynance.com/Show Post.aspx?PostIDKey=4851

Unless of course you enjoy seeing the RenTec dude ROFLHAO.


PS. Do you seriously expect any spilling of the beans so to speak?
 
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