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Jim Simons
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Jim Simons

Entrepreneur · born April 25, 1938 · died 2024

$23.5Bolder estimate, as of November 2020 · Forbes

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James Harris Simons was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. At the time of his death, Simons's net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th-richest person in the world.

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Reported wealth

Each figure is a dated estimate from the publisher shown; wealth changes, and nothing here is live.

As ofEstimateSource
November 2020$23.5BForbes · current
2019$21.5BForbes
February 2018$20.9BForbes

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