“An index is meant to carry information. Cap-weighting strips it out — you end up owning popularity, not knowledge.”
Two decades of rethinking how markets move through time and why prices drift back toward fair value — with published research behind the patterns. The result is E&R™: a framework that turns that work into a repeatable edge.
The people behind E&R
AlphaBlock is the research and intellectual-property entity behind the E&R™ methodology.
Born in New Delhi, Mukul has spent 25 years building quantitative investment strategies for active managers worldwide. He began at the Bombay Stock Exchange, supporting major Indian financial institutions, then extended his advisory practice into Europe with asset managers and the securities arms of global banks. He holds master’s degrees in finance and statistics, and the CMT and CAIA designations. His work in financial technology has been recognised by MIT; he has spoken at conferences worldwide, including the Princeton–Chicago Quant Conference, and played a pivotal role in bringing financial innovations to NASDAQ. He is the author of End of Passive Investing: Story of the Hidden Bias.
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A technology executive and software architect with 15+ years building enterprise and financial-technology platforms. As CTO she leads the firm’s investment-technology infrastructure — the data pipelines powering its live mandates and the long–short reconciliation systems behind them — working with data scientists on portfolio design and construction across .NET, Python and cloud at scale. She contributed to enterprise-automation projects during UiPath’s early growth before co-founding AlphaBlock in 2018.
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“If we can give every investor an intelligent, hyper-personalised portfolio, we change who investing works for.”
Through the pandemic, with a long–short fund that struggled to raise assets, the company faced a defining choice: keep serving a handful of institutions, or open the platform to the world. They pivoted — to hyperscaled, automated portfolios on a pay-for-alpha model that aligns incentives and scales globally.
The founder, in long form.
An ICOVISIONS podcast conversation with Mukul Pal, recorded April 2018 — the year AlphaBlock incorporated in Toronto: the research and the machines behind beating the market, in one sitting.
Alpha for 100 million investors.
Our mission: make systematic, accountable portfolio construction available to the institutions that serve 100 million investors — and change how investment products are built, delivered and paid for.
We believe the future of investing is not passive versus active — but augmented, automated and agentic. And ultimately, paid only for alpha.
Who signs off, where the data comes from, how a release ships.
Institutions buy process before they buy performance. This is ours, in the order a due-diligence questionnaire asks for it.
AlphaBlock is a financial-technology licensor, not a fund manager. Performance figures referenced across this site represent returns achieved in live, regulated portfolios by managers licensed to use the E&R™ methodology.