# About Sifter Research

> The analyst behind the reports.

## Alessandro Montalbano

Founder and research analyst.

- **Experience**: 10+ years personal investing
- **Background**: Former M&A analyst
- **Training**: Quantitative finance
- **Discipline**: Management engineering

I have invested my own money for more than ten years. The best ideas I found on forums and in newsletters were only a starting point. Each one still needed weeks of work on filings before I could act on it.

Sifter Research is that work, done in the open. AI agents read filings, investor decks and local press across global small-caps. I check the numbers, test every company against the same 82 questions and write the reports.

Before Sifter I worked as an M&A analyst on sell-side mandates for small and mid-sized companies. My training is in quantitative finance and management engineering.

## Principles

1. Downside first
2. Primary sources first
3. Explicit valuation
4. Selection compounds

## Disclosure

Sifter Research publishes independent research and opinion for information. Each reader decides whether a security fits their own portfolio. The author may hold positions in the securities discussed.

## Contact

- X: https://x.com/AlexResearch_
- Newsletter (English): https://sifteresearch.substack.com/
- Newsletter (Italian): https://alfainvestitore.substack.com/

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Independent research and personal opinion, published for informational and educational purposes. Not investment advice, not a solicitation to buy or sell securities. All analysis is based on publicly available information. The author may hold positions in the securities discussed. Investing involves risk of loss.