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The operating layer for institutional asset management.

Research, portfolio construction, index engineering and execution through one governed, auditable interface. Underneath is a quantitative engine partners already run under their own licence; above it, a governed AI layer now in test.

01Exceptional & Rich · E&R Indexes

Same stocks. Different weights. Rules published in full.

Exceptional & Rich is our published methodology for building indexes. It keeps a benchmark’s own constituents and reweights them by E&R™ probability rather than by price. Nothing is picked, nothing is excluded; the index is rebuilt, not replaced.

Delivered as indexes, model portfolios or an overlay on a mandate you already run — and tested in a 60-day Sandbox on your own universe before anything goes live.

See the record →
Calculated by Nasdaq
An index on the methodology was calculated and published by Nasdaq from 2014 to 2021.
Licensed implementations
E&R runs in licensed implementations in Europe and India, including a SEBI-registered portfolio manager live since 2023.
US distribution
Signed as a model provider with Smart Leaf, Boston — a portfolio management platform used by more than 1,200 US advisers.
Sandbox
60 days on your chosen universe, measured by you, before a single account is traded.
02What is live, in test and planned

Services go live one at a time.

Partners choose what they need and run it on their own clients’ accounts. Each service is released only after passing its own evaluation gate.

Live
Data behind live APIs — prices since 2000, company fundamentals, daily fund NAVs.
Analytics platform that builds and publishes reports
E&R Indexes — in licensed implementations in Europe and India
Execution through Alpaca and Interactive Brokers, running live rebalances
In test
Governed AI layer — a query planner over SQL and graph data, with plan scoring and sandboxed code execution
Natural-language portfolio solver with more than 20 methods
Tiered knowledge base and an evaluation gate every model change must pass
Learning service, in beta
Planned
Enterprise hosting, single sign-on and retained audit logging
News Agents
A Registry of track records
03How partners use the engine

A modular set of services

One E&R engine, delivered in the form each partner needs. Independent by design — pick one or combine several. Each is tagged with who it typically serves.

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Performance figures for every implementation are on the E&R Indexes section. Strategy factsheets, simulations and validation reports are available on request — or log in for live numbers.

04Governance and controls

Auditable by design. The AI never trades.

Built so a compliance officer can see the method, not just the answer. An adviser-only mode shows the full reasoning; a client-present mode keeps to research and never quotes performance.

01Sourced outputs, with a trace of every query and model call
02Read-only permissions; data pulled only within the user’s entitlements
03Approval checkpoints before any action; execution is a separate, human-approved step
04Access and execution. Read-only by default. Execution runs through your broker connection (Alpaca, Interactive Brokers) only after a human on your side approves. The AI layer has no path to the broker.
05Enterprise hosting. Single sign-on, role-based access and a retained audit log of every answer and action are the next release.
05Case study · mandate redesign
Partner un-named pending agreement · full reference under NDA

An international equity fund, rebuilt on its own universe.

THE PROBLEM
A Toronto manager’s international equity fund ranked in the bottom quartile of its Morningstar category, with assets drifting and a merger under discussion.
THE CONSTRAINTS
Same prospectus, same benchmark, same universe, same custodian. No change to the fund’s name, mandate or client agreements. The manager retains every investment decision.
WHAT CHANGED
Portfolio construction only. E&R reweighted the existing universe by probability rather than by capitalisation or conviction, rebalanced on a fixed schedule, delivered as a model the manager executes.
THE RESULT
Ranked top quartile in its Morningstar category for 2024, the first full year on the redesigned construction. Measured by Morningstar, not by us.
TIME TO DEPLOY
One call to scope, a 60-day Sandbox on the fund’s own universe, then live. No systems integration on the manager’s side beyond a data feed.
FULL REFERENCE
The complete record, before and after, with the licensee’s permission.
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Category ranking per Morningstar for calendar 2024. One year is one year; the full record, including the periods before and after, is in the gated reference. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Problem → E&R → Solution
The problem clients arrive with
Bottom-quartile fund
High fees, low alpha
Undifferentiated shelf
Discretionary risk
The solution it leaves as
Mandate redesignAsset Managers
Systematic overlayAsset Managers
Fund-of-fundsAsset Owners
Long–short SMAsAsset Owners
Pay-for-alpha ETFsElectronic Platforms
Adviser modelsUS Advisers

The problems clients arrive with enter the E&R engine and leave as systematic solutions — each routed to the client it serves. The methodology is the constant; the portfolio construction changes.

Pay-for-alpha· standardised redesigned ETFs

You pay for alpha. Here's the arithmetic.

Scope: standardised redesigned ETF strategies · customised & bespoke mandates are priced per mandate

An illustrative $100M mandate, one year, benchmark up +10%. Traditional active management charges 1% of assets — whatever happens. Pay-for-alpha charges an illustrative 20% share of verified alpha — and nothing else.

The year Portfolio vs benchmark Traditional · 1% of AUM Pay-for-alpha · 20% of alpha
+4% excess return +14% vs +10% · $4M of alpha created $1.0M $0.8M
less than the flat fee — and earned
Matches +10% vs +10% · no alpha $1.0M $0
Trails +7% vs +10% $1.0M — still owed $0

In a good year you pay less than you pay today — and the fee disappears entirely in the years you got nothing.

Illustrative only — the share of alpha and all commercial terms are agreed per mandate. Applies to select standardised redesigned ETF strategies; customised and bespoke mandates carry their own terms. Alpha is measured against the stated benchmark over a rolling 12-month window; fees crystallise at each window's close. The funds in India follow the licensed manager's disclosed fee schedule.

For your investment committee

Presenting E&R internally? Take an overview with you.

Ten slides each — the methodology, the live E&R Indexes, and how an engagement starts — as self-contained files that open in any browser, offline, with the interactive E&R model included.

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For asset managers

The partnership overview — redesign a mandate, keep your fund and clients.

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For asset owners

Allocation, benchmark replacement and long–short SMAs — your custodian, your control.

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For electronic platforms

Pay-for-alpha products and turnkey APIs — a shelf product nobody else has.

Run E&R on your own universe.

A methodology briefing, then a 60-day Sandbox on a universe you choose, measured against your benchmark by your own team. No fee, nothing to install.

Start a 60-day Sandbox → See the track record