Work

Grey lattice, feasible set. Cobalt ridge, efficient frontier. Bright node, tangency portfolio. Drag to orbit. Illustrative geometry, not the challenge data.
The interactive risk surface needs a wider screen.
01 Natixis Students Investment Challenge First place. A $100M book at 9.4% against a 1.8% benchmark, Sharpe 2.04. → 02 Blackmont Consulting engagement Took over as PM with six weeks left of eight. 55 competitors benchmarked, new channel recommended. → 03 Repsol activism defence Board-level defence ahead of the 2027 AGM. Graded 81/100, then corrected by Georgeson’s CEO. → 04 easyJet takeover valuation A 715p bid for a 577p business. The capex assumption reversed the conclusion. → 05 180 Degrees Consulting, EdTech Market sizing and six differentiators, then rebuilt from scratch when the founder moved country. → 06 Discretionary global macro book A $100MM book, +15.60% in five weeks, first of twelve. Two trades were two thirds of it. → 07 Systematic commodity trend strategy EWMA and Donchian across 23 commodities. Test Sharpe 1.03, and an ML overlay that cut drawdown to -8.66%. → 08 AQR momentum fund case Momentum earns 7.48% a year over 1,164 months and once lost 52% in a single month. → 09 Nikash, real options for film finance Co-founded. Fifteen conversations changed the core assumption of the model. → 10 US TIPS return prediction Walk-forward across five models. Statistical accuracy and economic value come apart. → 11 S&P 500 correlation clustering Union-find over 496 tickers. At k = 400 the largest cluster is 36 names, all Financials. → 12 Global equity portfolio optimisation The unconstrained optimum needed a 9x short. Long-only Sharpe 0.348 was the honest number. → 13 CAPM cross-sectional evaluation 25 Fama-French portfolios. High R-squared, significant alphas, a value spread the model cannot price. → 14 RoadVerse mobility intelligence Led a team across Imperial, IIT Madras, Standard Chartered and ONGC. → 15 USX conglomerate discount analysis Berger and Ofek sum-of-the-parts. A 10.6% discount, inside the expected 10 to 15% band. → 16 Diageo DCF and capital structure DCF equity of £15.7bn against £17.5 to 18.3bn on multiples, and leverage set by a credit rating. → 17 TrustBridge zero-knowledge identity A verifier learns one fact instead of receiving a passport. Sovereign chain, ZK proofs, no on-chain PII. → 18 IMC Prosperity 4 Second globally in manual trading, out of 18,803 teams. →