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by viewbase 2409 days ago
Back in late 2017, RenTec made an unusual move of raising capital to capitalize on "market opportunities arising from Trump’s presidential victory":

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/renaissance-s-medall...

By Occam's razor, it is more likely that Robert Mercer made use of his close ties with Trump administration to gain insider knowledge, than RenTec consistently having superior quantitative analysis than their competitors in an extremely competitive and saturated industry.