The company
Research-grade tools,
built by people who run the money.
42 Quant Labs is a quantitative research studio. We turn decades of desk-tested analytics into software investment professionals can trust — rigorous, out-of-sample, and honest about what it does and does not know.
Mission
Close the gap between research and the decision.
Most macro and factor “signals” look brilliant in a backtest and vanish in production. Our discipline is the opposite: surface only what survives out-of-sample, and put the evidence — good and bad — in front of the people making the call.
Principles
How we work.
Out-of-sample or nothing
Every signal is judged on data it never saw, and penalised for the many we tested along the way. In-sample fit is shown, never sold.
Honest by construction
We put the evidence for and against a relationship side by side. A tool that hides its own uncertainty is worse than no tool at all.
Built by practitioners
Designed by people who have allocated capital and run systematic books — the defaults are the ones we would use ourselves, not a lab exercise.
One research standard
Macro, factor, allocation and derivatives share one validation discipline, so results are comparable across the entire stack.
Background
From the desk to the platform.
The methods behind our tools were built and used on live books — macro relationship studies, factor and risk models, allocation research and volatility calibration. 42 Quant Labs productises that work: the same estimators, hardened, validated against their original outputs, and wrapped in interfaces a team can actually use.
The products
See the tools at work.
Explore Plutus, MacroForge, Fabrisk and VolForge, alongside the practical tools we build for our own desks.