Funds
The Medallion Fund has traded non-stock instruments and is international. American-traded instruments include commodities futures and US Treasury bonds. Foreign-traded instruments include currency swaps, commodities futures, and foreign bonds. The Medallion Fund has its own internal trading desk, staffed by approximately 20 traders, and trades from Monday opening bell in Australia through Friday closing bell in the US. Its origins date to the late 1980s, and it is believed to have essentially subsumed the trading positions and intellectual property of James Ax's Axcom Trading Advisors after that company's dissolution in 1992.
The Nova Fund has traded NASDAQ stocks only, executing purely electronically, with a desk staffed by 1-2 traders overseeing operations. In the mid-1990s, Nova was one of Instinet's largest volume customers. On one day in 1997 Nova executions accounted for 14% of the share volume of the NASDAQ.
The Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund started in mid-2005 and is offered as a fund for institutional investors. Renaissance manages a number of other funds in various markets, including mortgage-backed securities and funds of external managed funds like the Renaissance Return Fund.
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