Daniel Mahr

9 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 20, 2025 by Daniel Mahr · across every show →

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Nov 20, 2025 negative
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Mahr: High-financing companies tend to underperform the market
“We find, as the academics have, that companies that are engaged in significant amounts of financing tend to underperform, and those that don't have better outcomes.”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 28:27 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
Nov 20, 2025 positive
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Mahr: MDT runs 'glass box' models with fully traceable daily decisions
“At MDT, that is not the case. We like to position our investment strategies as being a glass box. There's a lot of machinery on the inside, but we can see into it. We can see how it's working and understand what's driving all of the decision making on a day-to…”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 14:59 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
Nov 20, 2025
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Mahr: MDT re-optimizes every portfolio nightly using decision tree forests
“Every night we download updated data from all of our vendors. We recalculate all of our characteristics. We run all the companies in the domestic equity market through our forests and have updated forecasts. Every portfolio that we run is re-optimized and gene…”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 41:31 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
Nov 20, 2025 positive
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Mahr: Momentum Predicts Future Returns Better for Newer Companies
“We find that momentum typically is more meaningful when you're looking at newer companies than companies have been around for a long time.”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 30:42 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
Nov 20, 2025 neutral
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Mahr: Factor selection and interaction at MDT is 100% algorithmic
“The selection of factors is driven by the potential questions that can be asked, is driven by the investment team. That's a major area of focus for us on the research side. Once we present that list of factors to the algorithm, it's Completely mechanically det…”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 21:14 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
Nov 20, 2025 positive
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Mahr: Consistent Price Appreciation Yields Better Momentum Signals
“We tend to find momentum works better when it is consistent. When the stock price is rising in a consistent manner, it leads to better outcomes than companies that have one giant price move driving the momentum measurement.”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 30:19 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
Nov 20, 2025 positive
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Mahr: Deep reversals work because investors emotionally avoid 'bad stories'
“This is precisely why this strategy works is because even quantitative investors who are intentionally trying to buy these stocks Find it hard to overcome the human emotions involved with buying a bad story.”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 17:21 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
Nov 20, 2025 bullish
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Mahr: Stocks down 70-80% yield strong returns when combined with value
“A number of years ago, we started adding price-based factors to our model, and the price-based factors found momentum effects, as was published in the academic literature and as we fully expected to see, but it also found some very powerful reversal effects wh…”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 16:11 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
Nov 20, 2025 positive
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Mahr: Strong Momentum Offsets Underperformance of High Financing
“And generally speaking, it's the strongest momentum companies that can generate good outcomes regardless of the financing.”
Daniel Mahr Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 29:21 Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
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