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Michael Rich

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About Me

Hi! My name is Michael Rich, and I am a student at Lehigh University in the Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program (IBE) studying Financial Engineering. I am an enthusiastic student-entrepreneur who is excited to solve problems with finance and engineering applications. I am incredibly interested in startup companies and am constantly exploring new and innovative ways to improve the technological landscape.

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Natural language processing Firm 10-Ks to identify risks and their impact

This analysis report uses textual analysis on 10-Ks to identify public firm exposures to several risk factors. I then identified the correlation between these risk factors and the firms respective returns on the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Predicting Commodity Returns based on Macroeconomic data

This project explored whether it is possible to predict the price of various agricultural commodities (corn, wheat, and soybeans) by using machine learning techniques on macroeconomic, weather, and financial datasets. In our out-of-sample tests, we found negative or near-zero R2 across every commodity and model we tested. We concluded that the market was pricing in information about the weather factors we constructed.

Streamlined, startup co-founder

Internship at West Monroe Partners: Automation

As a management consulting intern, I noticed a labor-intensive data collection process used to examine a private equity firm’s portfolio companies. I automated that (using python!) and the firm is putting the program into production. It will save 170+ hours of labor every year.

Career Objectives

My passion lies within startups and Venture Capital. I want to eventually transition full time to a startup or VC, but I plan to start out as a consultant.

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