Shariah-compliant quantitative research

We are built to reject our own ideas.

ASQIOS is a governance-first research instrument for Shariah-compliant systematic equity strategies. Every hypothesis is pre-registered, falsified where it can be, and reproduced before it earns any trust. A research platform — not a fund, and not an offer to manage capital.

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Constitutional documents governing the platform
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Lexicographic priority levels, in fixed order
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Isolated paper portfolios measuring marginal value
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Capital deployed — and that is the point
What ASQIOS is

Three commitments hold the whole system together.

Compliance, method, and integrity are not features bolted onto a research process. They are the structure the research is permitted to exist inside.

01 / COMPLIANCE

Shariah governance, first in line

An AAOIFI-primary methodology with a supervisory authority holding a reserved veto over every permissibility question. No mechanism enters research without a ruling from qualified scholars.

02 / METHOD

Systematic, not discretionary

Strategies are explicit, testable rules — defined universes, cross-sectional factors, pre-registered verdict criteria — so what we believe can always be checked against what the evidence shows.

03 / INTEGRITY

An honesty spine before capability

An immutable data store, a trial ledger, and a reproduction harness sit beneath everything. Results are logged before they are interpreted, so the record is evidence — not rationalisation.

The decision order

A strict order of priorities — and it never reorders.

ASQIOS resolves every trade-off lexicographically. A lower priority is considered only once every higher one is satisfied. Efficiency can never buy its way past compliance; growth can never buy its way past survival.

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Shariah complianceThe gate. A non-compliant strategy does not advance, regardless of how well it performs.

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SurvivalAvoiding ruin precedes pursuing return. Continuity is protected before anything is optimised.

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Geometric growthLong-run compounding — not single-period averages — is the objective once the gates above hold.

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RobustnessAn edge must survive regime changes and correction for multiple testing before it is believed.

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EfficiencyCost and turnover are minimised last — only after everything above is settled.

// Distrust acceptances. Trust rejections. The null hypothesis is the default verdict.

The platform

Four portfolios, designed to isolate the value of each layer.

The architecture is deliberately stacked so the marginal contribution of every component can be measured rather than assumed. Tap a portfolio to expand.

PORT-A

Factor baseline

Pure STRAT-001 factor model.

The control. A systematic factor model with no AI layer, establishing the baseline that every other portfolio is measured against.

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PORT-B

Factor + veto

STRAT-001 with an AI veto layer.

Adds a constrained AI veto on top of the factor baseline. Isolates whether a supervisory veto adds or destroys value versus PORT-A.

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PORT-C

AI analyst

CAA-002 AI analyst.

A fuller AI analyst that scores names under strict rules — never excluding on data anomalies, never re-performing the Shariah screen, never reading routine activity as signal.

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PORT-D

Event monitor

NED-002 news-event monitor.

Tests which event types carry edge — not whether a data source does. Each hypothesis must meet its own sample size and survive its own correction.

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// Summing signals across independent hypotheses multiplies the testing burden — it does not reduce it.

A research instrument, examined in the open.

Understand how the governance, the method, and the integrity layer fit together — or get in touch about the research itself.