Juan Montes Enterprises
Juan Montes Enterprises

Research, investing, media and long-term ventures.

Geneva 
Miami 
Est. MMXXVI

An independent platform. Built for the long view.

The House

One platform. Two engines.

The institution · Est. MMXXVI

Juan Montes Enterprises

An independent platform for research, investing, media and long-term ventures. Built to hold the work that compounds over time, under one name and one standard.

Research & media

Sol Invictus

Markets, geopolitics and Latin America, plus the ideas that move people, institutions and capital. Named for the unconquered sun: the light that keeps rising.

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Ventures

Build for the long view.

A home for companies, investment projects and ideas developed over time.

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Portrait of Juan Montes

Founder

Juan Montes is a Venezuelan-born finance professional, researcher and entrepreneur based between France and Switzerland. A graduate of Syracuse University and currently completing the University of Geneva's graduate finance program, his interests span markets, credit and special situations, financial technology and tokenization, political economy and Latin America. He founded Juan Montes Enterprises as the home for his research, media and long-term ventures, including its research arm, Sol Invictus.

  • BornCaracas
  • BasedGreater Geneva
  • LanguagesES · EN · FRFrench in progress

The path

Across borders, toward one direction.

  1. Origin

    Caracas

    Born in Venezuela. The starting point, and the country that still anchors much of the work on political economy and reconstruction.

  2. Formation

    Miami

    Raised in Florida. Grew up between languages and cultures, with Latin America never far away.

  3. BA, 2022

    Syracuse

    Maxwell School. Political Science. Institutions, power and international affairs.

  4. Legal, 2022

    Costa Rica

    Línea Law, Liberia. Real estate due diligence and bilingual English/Spanish documentation for international clients.

  5. Credit

    Madrid

    Ben Oldman Partners. Special situations and credit. Investment memos, collateral and recovery analysis, the weekly deal pipeline.

  6. MAS, 2026

    Geneva

    University of Geneva, GEMFIN. CFA Research Challenge on Sika AG, plus FinTech research on crypto ETPs and tokenization.

Research · Sol Invictus

Follow the capital. Understand the forces.

Sol Invictus is the research and media arm of Juan Montes Enterprises. Markets sit at the center; geopolitics and Latin America are studied where they change the price, flow and structure of capital.

I · Center of gravity

Markets

Public markets, credit, macro, digital assets and financial infrastructure. Research on what is moving capital, why it is moving, and where opportunity may be mispriced.

II

Geopolitics

Power, conflict, energy and political risk, and the channels through which they reach markets, companies and capital flows.

III

Venezuela & Latin America

Sovereign and corporate credit, restructurings, political economy and reconstruction, with particular attention to Venezuela and underfollowed situations across Latin America.

Analysis and commentary only. Nothing on this site is investment advice.

Ventures

Built to become more than research.

In development

Sol Invictus Capital

A long-term concept for an investment platform centered on special situations, credit and markets where deep research, structural thinking and political understanding matter.

Concept stage only. Sol Invictus Capital is not currently operating as an investment fund and is not accepting or soliciting outside capital.

The open slot

What comes next?

The platform is intentionally open-ended. Future ventures can live here without forcing the house into a single industry or asset class.

Off the Desk

Away from the terminal.

Tennis

Want to hit? I’m down.

If you’re around Greater Geneva and want to play, send me a note. A good rally is a perfectly valid reason to get in touch.

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Current rotation

Things worth my attention.

  • ReadingNietzsche, Aristotle & the StoicsPhilosophy, rhetoric and the problem of becoming.
  • StudyingMarkets, credit & restructuringThe technical work behind the bigger ideas.
Send something good

Book, paper, game, film, podcast, rabbit hole.

If you think something is genuinely worth the time, send it. The best recommendations usually come from people who care enough to explain why.

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Contact

Correspondence

juanmontes00@gmail.com