{"id":4681,"date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"long-island-richest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2006\/long-island-richest-man.html","title":{"rendered":"Long Island’s richest man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsday – He’s been called the richest Long Islander, and not a lot of people know who he is.<\/p>\n

At an estimated $2.6 billion, James Simons’ net worth is greater than Cablevision’s Charles Dolan. A few times more than Computer Associates founder and Islanders owner Charles Wang. Other Long Islanders you’d consider? Not even close.<\/p>\n

In fact, Simons is one of only three Long Islanders on Forbes Magazine’s annual list of the world’s richest people, and he’s No. 278 (Dolan is 355 and Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone is 548).<\/p>\n

Ask his friends, and they’ll tell you that Simons, manager of a hedge fund based in East Setauket, is a private guy.<\/p>\n

Make that a private guy who happens to have been in the public eye recently, making his presence known in the areas that are his passion: mathematics and science.<\/p>\n

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Newsday – He’s been called the richest Long Islander, and not a lot of people know who he is. At an estimated $2.6 billion, James Simons’ net worth is greater than Cablevision’s Charles Dolan. A few times more than Computer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}