Finance Lab

Action Learning

Laying the groundwork for affordable housing investing

Wafra tasked Fin-Lab with conducting due diligence on a proposed private equity fund that would invest in affordable housing with the twin goals of providing both social impact and financial return.

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Sample projects

Investment research

  • Use machine learning and AI techniques to research alpha signals in social media data (Glassdoor, etc.)
  • Investigate a probability-based model for emerging markets currency crisis 
  • Build a trading strategy for rates and currencies using the volatility risk premium

Venture capital, PE, and impact investing

  • Conduct a comprehensive valuation and impact analysis for a VC portfolio company in the renewable energy space
  • Perform valuation analysis for a late-stage growth company in the SAAS space
  • Identify attractive PE targets in the small family-owned US manufacturing segment
  • Build detailed valuation models for startup healthcare diagnostics company in South Asia

Trading and risk analysis

  • Use transaction-level intraday bond data to construct measures of overall bond market liquidity
  • Perform factor analysis on illiquid alternative investments like private equity and distressed credit
  • Analyze notional vs. actual trading liquidity in fixed income ETFs; factor crowding in strategies