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// For pension funds · endowments & foundations · family offices · sovereign allocators
Let's put twenty years of market research to work across your portfolio.
The 3N™ methodology — an allocation engine for institutional portfolios, offered as a partnership
// Why we're talking
You keep custody and control. We bring the engine.
Your capital stays with your custodian, under your governance; 3N supplies the systematic edge behind your allocation decisions.
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An allocation engine, not a product. Nothing to buy into — 3N works inside your structure.
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Built for allocators — pension funds, endowments & foundations, family offices, sovereign funds.
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Proven live. Regulated, independently measured portfolios across four continents.
01 The problem & our thesis
Most benchmarks are cap-weighted — and cap-weighting throws information away.
The $50 trillion passive industry runs on one idea — market-cap weighting, traced to an 1871 price index and adopted for calculational convenience. As a stock rises it earns a bigger weight, so the benchmark buys more of it: a rich-get-richer machine that mistakes momentum for merit and quietly concentrates risk.
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indexed to a convention, not a law of markets
1871
the origin of cap-weighting — a 150-year-old shortcut
~7
names now carry the risk of a 500-stock index
A benchmark should carry information. Cap-weighting strips it out — you own popularity, not knowledge. Two decades of research turned that conviction into 3N — built to beat any benchmark.
02 The 3N™ methodology
Markets are a multi-state probability system — not a coin flip.
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N1 · Five states (S1–S5) form a live transition network; two-way probabilities update each day. When any state's level breaks below 50, the regime collapses and the chain reforms from scratch.
N1 · Probabilistic states
Every asset carries measurable odds of persistence, reversion or transition — the market as a Markov chain.
N2 · Normalisation
Value bets on reversion; cap-weighting bets on persistence. 3N measures the regime and normalises across both.
N3 · Non-linear engine
Machine Beta rebuilds the index from non-linear structural factors rather than market value — at lower tracking error.
15+ years of published research
19 peer-visible SSRN papers
Validated live independently measured
03 Case study · listed on Nasdaq
100 became 11.2× — on a live Nasdaq index.
The Nasdaq Orpheus RMI Value-Growth US 20 Index (RMIVG20) is the 3N engine's longest exchange-grade proof — calculated by Nasdaq from 2004 and listed as a live index through 2021. It grew 100 into 11.2× against 3.2× for the benchmark, and held through the −62.5% financial-crisis drawdown.
11.2×
growth of 100, 2004–2021 · vs 3.2× benchmark
17 yrs
calculated & listed by Nasdaq
+13.5 pts
ann. alpha 2004–14 · 25.2% vs 11.7%
+6.1 pts
ann. alpha 2014–21 · 18.2% vs 12.1%
Source: Nasdaq RMIVG 20 daily index values. An exchange-calculated public record — 2004–14 calculated by Nasdaq vs the S&P 100; 2014–21 listed on Nasdaq vs the Nasdaq US Benchmark. Calculated live, in public.
04 Track record
Live, regulated, and independently measured.
as of May 2026 · periods vary by mandate
live and historical records
+8.24%
annualised alpha · weighted by yrs of track
simple average +6.63% across all 12
29.07%
avg. annualised return
10 / 12
mandates beat benchmark
4
continents · live on all
12
strategies · 9 live + 3 historical
Absolute return, every strategy — benchmark base + 3N contribution, % p.a.
Benchmark
3N · live
3N · hist
Shortfall
Benchmark return
3N added (live)
3N added (historical)
Shortfall to benchmark
E&R XME VCG · USA95.59 / 73.55
E&R Romania VG · Romania49.29 / 53.49
E&R QQQ VG · USA29.47 / 28.85
Nasdaq Orpheus ’04–14 · USA ·hist25.22 / 11.69
BT Energy · Romania ·hist25.00 / 7.97
E&R Emerging Ex USA · Canada24.54 / 11.35
E&R XLU VCG · USA20.11 / 13.39
Alphabots India 100 · India19.50 / 12.34
Alphabots Mid Cap 29 · India18.52 / 16.18
Nasdaq Orpheus ’14–21 · USA ·hist18.23 / 12.14
E&R XLE VCG · USA17.03 / 22.57
E&R XLV VG · USA6.30 / 5.75
Absolute return is not alpha. E&R Romania VG returned +49% yet trailed a +53% benchmark; BT Energy's +25% cleared its +8% benchmark by 17 points. Every mandate is judged against its own benchmark · value / benchmark, % p.a.
05 The people behind 3N
Who you'd be partnering with
Mukul Pal
Founder & CEO
Twenty-five years building quantitative strategies for active managers worldwide. He began at the Bombay Stock Exchange serving major Indian institutions, then extended his advisory practice across Europe with asset managers and the securities arms of global banks. His work has earned recognition from MIT, he has spoken at the Princeton–Chicago Quant Conference, and he was pivotal in bringing 3N to Nasdaq. Author of End of Passive Investing.
CMT
CAIA
2× MSc · Finance & Statistics
MIT-recognised
Florina Pal
Co-Founder & CTO
A technology executive and software architect with 15+ years building enterprise and financial-technology platforms. As CTO she leads AlphaBlock's investment-technology infrastructure — the the 3N™ engine, the systematic data pipelines powering its live mandates, and the long–short reconciliation systems behind them — working with data scientists on portfolio design across .NET, Python and cloud at scale. She built enterprise-automation systems in the early UiPath ecosystem before co-founding AlphaBlock in 2018.
the 3N™ engine
.NET · Python · Cloud
Ex-UiPath ecosystem
06 What we do & how we start
One engine, three ways into your portfolio.
3N works on any equity universe —
your funds, your benchmark, your accounts.
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Assets under allocation
A systematic fund-of-funds process — 3N allocates across the funds you already hold, methodically cutting fee drag and enhancing returns.
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Benchmark replacement
Swap a concentrated, cap-weighted core for a broad basket engineered to carry information — and beat the benchmark it replaces.
PROOF17 years calculated & listed by Nasdaq — 11.2× vs 3.2×.
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Long–short SMAs
Structured long–short strategies in your own separately managed accounts — from US equity into global equity and fixed income.
Start with one, or compose.
Each engagement stands alone — or combine them into a full systematic program across your portfolio.
How we start
From first conversation to live — nothing unproven.
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Methodology briefing
We walk your team through 3N and the fit for your objectives.
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60-day sandbox
3N runs on one allocation you choose — your universe, your constraints.
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Simulations & stress tests
Out-of-sample validation and stress testing before anything goes live.
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Commercial agreement & deployment
Live inside your regulated structure, ongoing support, terms agreed per mandate.
07 Risk & governance
We've de-risked this for you.
Everything your ops and diligence teams would ask is already handled — so the only decision left is whether to run the sandbox.
01Your custodian, your accounts
Capital never moves to us. 3N is deployed within your own structure — the live mandates run as SEBI-regulated PMS and exchange-grade indices.
02Clear IP & counterparty
The methodology is licensed by AlphaBlock Technologies Inc. under a defined agreement.
03Transparent, reproducible process
Rules-based and inspectable — grounded in 15+ years of published, peer-visible research. Your IC can interrogate every step; nothing is a black box.
04Independently measured, live track record
Performance is tracked by third parties — PMS Bazaar in India, Nasdaq for the historical index — from live client accounts, not simulations.
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// The next step
Run 3N on one allocation. Sixty days.
A methodology briefing, then a 60-day sandbox on one allocation you choose — a sleeve, a fund lineup, a benchmark — before any commitment. If it earns its place, we agree terms and deploy — terms agreed per mandate. When you're ready, we'll begin.
CONTACT
Mukul Pal · Founder & CEO
contact@a1phablock.com
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