Sarah Jacobs/Business Insider
What do you picture when you imagine a hedge-fund office? A noisy trading floor full of hedge-fund guys in fleece vests?
Two Sigma, a $ 45 billion hedge-fund firm that uses advanced technologies to find investment opportunities, is a little different. The firm, which says it has seen head count grow by more than 400% in the past seven years, is as much a technology company as it is a finance company, analyzing over 10,000 data sources to find patterns in markets.
That approach seems to have paid off. Two Sigma ranked as the fifth-biggest hedge fund in the world in Institutional Investor’s Alpha’s 2017 Hedge Fund 100 list, while cofounders David Siegel and John Overdeck each made $ 750 million last year, according to the magazine’s list of the top-earning hedge-fund managers. The firm also runs an insurance business, Two Sigma Insurance Quantified, a market-making arm called Two Sigma Securities, and a venture-capital arm.
In August, Business Insider took a tour of the firm’s two New York offices, which are across the road from each other in the SoHo neighborhood. The offices are stashed with arcade games, computing memorabilia, gyms, a hacker space, and a music room.
There was a teach-in on Python for Research when we visited 101 Avenue of the Americas, one of three talks the firm hosts weekly.
Sarah Jacobs/Business Insider
The kitchen was well stocked.
Sarah Jacobs/Business Insider
You may be able to see a Juicero machine on the left side. Two Sigma Ventures, the venture arm of Two Sigma, is an investor in Juicero, which recently announced a price cut and layoffs.
Across the road at 100 Avenue of the Americas, there’s another kitchen, with staff taking time out to play games.
Sarah Jacobs/Business Insider
See the rest of the story at Business Insider
