[VHRanger]

Right, and I generally respect Renaissance.

I think people who actually can beat the market fall into the general category of "knows something others don't". Renaissance probably is one of the very few firms that could qualify as that on purely technocratic means (instead of the usual, which is shades of grey in what's really insider trading). The other category would be simply HFT, but I'm not sure how profitable that is at this point, though.

Most of the people who seem to beat the market, though, are generally just happy benefactors of survival bias (eg. the 10000 monkeys on typewrites effect)