Alessandro Montefiori

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Join date: Oct 16, 2025

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Alessandro Montefiori is a trilingual investment professional with experience across global markets, private equity, private credit, and M&A advisory. Currently working as an Investment & Business Development Analyst at CGPH Banque d’affaires in Monaco, he supports deal origination and execution through due diligence, market research, and financial analysis, while also producing strategic reports for institutional investors.

Previously, Alessandro completed an Investment Advisory Internship at UBS, where he analysed structured products, automated portfolio reporting processes, and created tailored investment proposals for ultra-high-net-worth clients.

He holds a BSc in Banking and International Finance from Bayes Business School in London, where he focused on corporate restructuring, private equity, financial engineering and risk modelling. Outside of academics, he was active in the Bayes M&A and Private Equity Society and participated in trading simulations and Model United Nations conferences.

As an Italian sailor, Alessandro combines analytical precision with a competitive mindset. Fluent in Italian, English, and French, he is passionate about investing, finance, sailing, and global markets.

Posts (11)

Jan 28, 2026 ∙ 3 min

AI Monetization Is Becoming the Central Question After Davos

Discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos highlighted a widening gap between AI adoption and AI monetization. While artificial intelligence is being deployed at scale, sustainable earnings remain concentrated among infrastructure providers and large platforms with capital depth and distribution control. The analysis shows how Davos marked a shift from narrative enthusiasm toward monetization discipline, capital efficiency, and investor-focused evaluation of AI-driven returns.

Jan 23, 2026 ∙ 5 min

Geopolitical Uncertainty Is Becoming a Structural Feature of Private Markets

Geopolitical uncertainty is emerging as a structural feature of private markets, influencing discount rates, leverage availability, and deal pricing. Persistent conflicts, trade fragmentation, and policy volatility are widening valuation dispersion and tightening financing conditions. As uncertainty becomes embedded in underwriting rather than treated as a temporary shock, private market managers, sponsors, and institutional investors must adapt capital structures and pricing frameworks to refle

Jan 18, 2026 ∙ 4 min

The Funding Gap in Private Markets: Why Balance Sheet Strength Is Reshaping Access to Capital

The funding gap is becoming a structural feature of private markets, driven by higher funding costs and capital concentration among institutions with strong balance sheets. As well-capitalized platforms continue deploying institutional capital, smaller lenders retrench, reshaping access to private credit, underwriting standards, and execution certainty. This shift is redefining competitive dynamics for private market managers, sponsors, and institutional investors.