Thank You! Now Officially Verified & Substack Bestseller with Hundreds of Paid Subscribers
A warm thank you to all our readers & an update on us
We are writing today to genuinely thank you for the support you have shown Aurelion and to answer the most common questions we receive.
If you have been a subscriber for a couple of months, whether free or paid, you have probably seen how much our work has evolved. The goal has stayed the same: to deliver the highest quality independent equity research, with ideas we expect to outperform over both the short and long term.
There is a lot more to come. We are only getting started!
The Aurelion Index is off to a strong start in 2026 after an excellent 2025, and the team has now grown to 4 analysts. We will keep doing what we do best: deep research and idea generation, with a constant focus on generating alpha.
If you are a newer reader you can have more info on us and Aurelion’s story here: About Us
How Do We Find New Ideas?
We get this question a lot. Because we generate a steady stream of new ideas, people often ask how we find them. We have also noticed that many investors lean heavily on screeners, or say they cannot find many setups right now.
Screeners can be useful, and we respect the process, but we rarely rely on them. Our approach is different. We think the best ideas usually come from staying close to industries, following the right signals, and letting patterns emerge over time. In other words, ideas tend to surface naturally through the work, not by forcing a list out of a tool.
Over time, we have taken inspiration from great analysts and built our own process. We are not pure value investors doing it the Buffett way, and we are far from traders. We rarely rely on technical analysis. When we use it, it is mostly for entry and exit, not for calling big trends or finding “setups.” So how would we describe our style? It is a hard question, and since it is part of our edge, we will not lay out every detail. But we can share what we do.
We read a lot of high quality equity research from top sell side teams. Think what you want about sell side price targets, but their best work can be excellent for initiations, industry updates, and spotting where attention is building across sectors. We do not outsource our views to them, but we do want to know what others are focused on, especially because our goal is often to find what is still overlooked.
At the same time, we take the “feel” of the market seriously. We do not mean investing on gut instinct. We mean pattern recognition that comes from repetition: understanding how narratives shift, where expectations are too high or too low, and which trends are real versus temporary. That is hard to develop, and even harder to do consistently. But over time, we have built a macro and analytical toolkit that helps us connect those dots.
That is also why we run a generalist model. We can go from a Japanese waste management company to a Brazilian bank, because the framework is the same. We start with the industry and the cycle, we test the quality of the business model, we build the numbers, and we look for a gap between perception and reality. That is where our best ideas usually come from.
For legal reasons, we want to emphasize again that nothing we publish constitutes investment advice. Any stock we discuss, whether positive or negative, is presented for research purposes only, and you should always conduct your own research.
Why We Always Talk About Independence in Equity Research
We have placed a good emphasis on aligning ourselves with everyone who consumes our work. In our view, this alignment/independance is often missing in the industry and is one reason equity research is not always trusted. By creating the Aurelion Index, we believe we have strengthened our alignment with subscribers.
To clarify, as we have received many questions, the Aurelion Index is our actively managed portfolio composed of the best stock ideas we identify. We continuously add and remove companies to maintain the strongest possible performance, and all positions are equally weighted. While it is not a traditional fund open to external capital, we believe it is an effective way to track the performance of our research. Find more here: Aurelion Index.
Thank you all, and we wish you a great week.
The Aurelion Team
Disclosures & Methodology
Congrats to all of you! You guys are clearly onto something
Amazing!