[6] On the day of Black Monday, October 19, 1987, Jones accurately predicted there would be a stock market crash.
[5][9][10] In 1996 the firm agreed to pay fines to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission totalling $800,000, the second-largest ever levied at the time for a non-fraud case, for violating the uptick rule, part of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that prohibits the sale of a borrowed stock while the stock is declining.
[11] The SEC charged that the trades made had pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 16 points in a single day.
[14] In 2022, Jones stated that the firm will be increasing its trading in cryptocurrencies as a way to protect against rising inflation.
[15] The firm is headquartered in Connecticut with additional offices in New York, Palm Beach, London, Singapore and Sydney.