UF students win Rialto 2024 Florida Case Competition
Jordi Triulzi (BABA ’24, MSF ’25) and Eric Minsky (BSBA Finance ’25) placed first in the Rialto 2024 Florida Case Competition that took place on Nov. 8 in Miami.
Four schools including the University of Miami, Florida International University and Florida State University competed in the competition, with two teams representing each school.
Students were tasked with evaluating the acquisition of a loan on a retail property.
“We had to evaluate if the loan was going to perform to maturity given a set of assumptions and conditions,” said Triulzi.
After evaluating the retail property, market and loan, Triulzi and Minsky were tasked with creating a presentation that outlined their assumptions, relevant risks and mitigants to predict the loan’s success. They presented these findings to a panel of eight judges in the company’s Miami office.
The duo met through their Real Estate Private Equity course last year and learned about the competition through the UF Real Estate Society.
Triulzi has hospitality experience through an internship as the summer analyst in acquisitions and asset management for 1754 Properties. Minsky has had several real estate and investment internships with Allegrone Companies, Sterling Organization, TAMID Group, Affinius Capital and Vaupen Financial Advisors.
Triulzi and Minsky agree that the hands-on experience from the Rialto competition was invaluable.
“Jordi and I hope to do in [our future career] exactly what the case competition entailed: being given a property, modeling it out, building a pitch deck on it, and then presenting the rationale behind our assumptions to the upper-level management at a large firm,” Minsky said.
After the competition, Rialto provided students the opportunity to network with the company’s leadership team.
“Getting the chance to meet them here, hear a little bit about their background and how they view a property being presented to them was a very nice networking opportunity that really doesn’t come around too often,” Minsky said.
Along with the winning title, Triulzi and Minsky were each awarded $100 and Rialto merchandise.
In the future, both plan to pursue a career in real estate private equity.
