Renaissance Technologies is one of the top hedge funds in the world headquartered in New York and the firm is managed by Jim Simons. His hedge fund specializes in diversified system trading using individual quantitative models derived from statistical analyses of historical price data. Renaissance Technologies runs many portfolios with the most famous and successful being the legendary Medallion Fund which has some of the best returns in history for both size and consistency, it was even closed to investors outside the fund’s employees in recent years.
Renaissance Technologies manages capital for 18 clients and with assets under management of $165,968,863,264 as of the last public report on January 6, 2021. Their last 13F filing for Q4 2020 showed its top 10 holdings were 13.27% of its publicly reported positions.
Here are the current Renaissance Technologies portfolio 2021 top 15 holdings as of the last 13f filing update going into 2021. Of course these holdings change often through the multiple funds and systems they manage but it is an interesting snapshot to see what they had at the start of 2021. [1]
Ticker Symbol/Percentage of portfolio/Sector
- NVO 2.04% HEALTH CARE
- BIDU 2.02% COMMUNICATIONS
- PDD 1.38% CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY
- VRSN 1.34% COMMUNICATIONS
- BMY 1.24% HEALTH CARE
- PANW 1.18% INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- TEAM 1.10% INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- MNST 1.03% CONSUMER STAPLES
- TGT 1.02% CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY
- VRTX 0.92% HEALTH CARE
- CMG 0.89% CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY
- ZM 0.87% INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- BIIB 0.81% HEALTH CARE
- FNV 0.75% MATERIALS
- ETSY 0.74% CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY
