Zander Alt

Zander Alt

Master of Accounting candidate, Rice University · CPA track

Equity analyst on The Wright Fund, with experience in asset management, accounting and wealth advisory. I build valuation models and analytical tools to understand how a business makes money and whether the price agrees.

Seeking 2027 roles in Investments & FP&A · Audit & Advisory

Experience

  1. Aug 2026 – Present

    Equity Analyst · The Wright Fund, Rice University

    • Build five-year operating models and FCFE valuations for public companies, with scenario analysis on earnings, cash flow and valuation sensitivity
    • Present investment recommendations to the fund's investment committee, sizing positions against downside scenarios with price- and thesis-based exit triggers
  2. May – Sep 2025

    Asset Management & Accounting Intern · Turnberry Associates, Aventura, FL

    • Analyzed utility consumption and spend for a multi-billion-dollar retail property, identifying monthly and annual demand trends to support NOI initiatives
    • Prepared monthly and quarterly financial statements through GL reconciliation and variance analysis across the real estate portfolio
    • Supported asset management and financial analysis of the firm's golf course operations
  3. Aug – Dec 2025

    FX & Commodity Analysis · Financial Econometrics

    • Built econometric models in R on 50+ years of ZAR/USD data with inflation differentials, WTI crude, gold and market variables, and backtested them out of sample against random-walk and AR(1) forecasts
  4. Jan – Dec 2024

    Wealth Advisory Intern · Analog Capital, Houston

    • Conducted portfolio analysis and investment research for high-net-worth clients across securities, asset allocation and market exposures
    • Coordinated client onboarding and account setup through Interactive Brokers
  5. Feb – May 2023

    Team Lead · KPMG Undergraduate Ethics Case Competition

    • Led a recommendation on corporate data privacy and stakeholder concerns that placed 3rd of 70 teams (500+ participants)

Education

Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business
Master of Accounting, CPA candidate · Expected May 2027

University of Houston
BBA, Finance & Accounting · Minor in Economics · Global Energy Management Program · Major GPA 3.85 · 2026

Skills

Excel & financial modelingPower QueryPower BIBloombergFactSet BamSECYardiRPython

Interests

Energy & commodity markets, hospitality, golf, poker, chess, basketball

Valuation models

Independent valuations I built from public filings and market data: full operating models in Excel with a scenario manager, segment forecast, cost of equity, FCFE DCF, sensitivity grid, trading comps and a football-field summary. Prices and values are as of the date shown.

NVDAAs of Oct 1, 2026

NVIDIA

Price$229.57
DCF value$138
Implied−40%

Base case slows growth to 15%/5%/4% as AI capex matures and gross margin eases from 74.5% to 68% under custom-chip competition. The price implies 7.5% terminal growth.

Download model (.xlsx)
MUAs of Oct 1, 2026

Micron Technology

Price$1,045.55
DCF value$534
Implied−49%

Memory is the most cyclical large industry in semiconductors, so the forecast is a cycle: record FY26 margins, then a two-year downturn to a normalized FY31 at a 40% operating margin.

Download model (.xlsx)
ATENAs of Sep 30, 2026

A10 Networks

Price$24.39
DCF value$27.69
Implied+14%

Uses a peer-implied cost of equity (1 ÷ forward P/E + long-run growth) alongside CAPM. The DCF sits just above the peer P/E value of $24.86; the price implies 2.7% perpetual growth.

Download model (.xlsx)
RITMAs of Sep 30, 2026

Rithm Capital

Price$8.96
DCF value$13.60
Implied+52%

A mortgage REIT at 0.73× book with an 11% dividend yield. The DCF credits core earnings but charges maintenance capex and the equity needed to grow, and still lands at 1.1× book.

Download model (.xlsx)
REDevelopment

Real Estate Development Models

A reusable development model template and a full build-out for a mixed-use project (McNair Westgrove).

Projects

Research and analytics tools I've built in my own time to make investment analysis faster and more rigorous.

Quant Dashboard Market Regime Monitor showing a risk-on composite reading and volatility, trend and regime signalsQuant Dashboard Live DCF page for Micron with DCF value, current price and a five-year forecast

Quant Dashboard

Valuation · risk · econometrics

A live web dashboard that pulls fresh market and economic data and recomputes ten models, including my DCFs re-run on today's prices.

  • Live DCF: the valuation models above with live price, Treasury yield and beta, a sensitivity grid and a reverse DCF
  • Market Regime Monitor: 13 risk-on/off signals, from GARCH volatility and a regime-switching model to the yield curve and the Sahm rule
  • Also: options pricing, Monte Carlo, portfolio optimization and factor regressions

Python · Streamlit · pandas · statsmodels

Hosted free; may take ~30 seconds to wake up if no one has visited recently.

Real run of the AI research desk (3× speed, 1:17)

Amber Terminal

Market data · financial statements · AI-assisted research

A Bloomberg-style market terminal with live prices, charts, SEC financial statements and FRED economic data, plus a desk of AI analysts that research the market and manage a $100k paper portfolio.

  • Financial statements and filings pulled directly from SEC EDGAR, with AI summaries of 10-Ks and 10-Qs that cite their sources
  • Five AI analysts write research notes and propose trades within risk limits (≤15% per position, ≥10% cash) that I approve

Node.js · Claude API · SEC EDGAR · FRED

Amber Quant Lab research site: 3 ideas researched, 57 backtests logged, and the current recommended mix of 60/40 and trend followingAmber Quant Lab strategy page for a growth-by-inflation quadrant allocation, marked needs work, with validation Sharpe 1.11

Amber Quant Lab

Investment research discipline · backtesting · skepticism

A research process for investment strategies with one rule: an idea has to survive a skeptic before it earns capital. AI agents propose, test and challenge each strategy against standard benchmarks.

  • Guards against overfitting: a sealed holdout period, a log of every backtest and data lagged to its real publication date
  • First cycle: 3 ideas and 57 logged backtests; none passed, so the recommendation stays a 60/40 + trend-following mix

Python · pandas · Claude agents · FRED

Political Flow Screener alerts table: unusual trades on Kalshi and Polymarket politics markets with score, flow, size, price move, reasons and news checkPolitical Flow Screener signal performance on 551 resolved markets: edge and hit rate by signal, net of the Kalshi fee

Political Flow Screener

Anomaly detection · data analysis · validation

An unusual-flow screener for prediction markets. It monitors ~42,000 politics markets on Kalshi and Polymarket, flags outsized or unusual trading, checks whether public news explains it, and grades every alert afterwards.

  • Backtest of 550 resolved markets and 690,000 trades: following the flagged flow lost ~4¢ per contract after fees
  • The one promising lead was tested on a separate holdout of 950 markets, failed, and was dropped rather than traded

Python · SQLite · Kalshi & Polymarket APIs

Entrepreneurship

Scrawl storefront homepage: Art you can wear daily

Scrawl

Building a business end to end

A print-on-demand clothing brand: original artwork on tees, Stripe checkout and automatic fulfillment through Printful, so no inventory is held.

Contact

I'm recruiting for 2027 roles in investments, FP&A, audit and advisory. Email is the fastest way to reach me.