David Winton Harding founded Winton Capital in 1997. Winton Capital follows a similar strategy like Jim Simons' Renaissance Technologies. Winton Capital had $28 billion in AUM at the end of 2011. David Harding's flagship fund Winton Futures returned 18% in 2007, 21% in 2008, -4.6% in 2009, 14.5% in 2010, and 6.3% in 2011.