SVEN CARLIN

Sven Carlin was born in Croatia and built an academic career in finance and economics. He holds a PhD in finance and taught at the Amsterdam School of International Business in the Netherlands.

He started his YouTube channel as an extension of that work, bringing institutional-quality stock analysis to retail investors in a format they could actually follow. His videos typically involve screen-sharing as he walks through annual reports, balance sheets, and valuation models for individual stocks.

He covers companies globally — US, European, Asian, and emerging market stocks — which sets him apart from the overwhelmingly US-centric finance YouTube world. He has published over 1,500 videos.

He also runs the Stock Market Research Platform, which provides his detailed write-ups to paid subscribers, and he publishes his own portfolio and performance openly.

Value Investing with Sven Carlin, Ph.D. — his YouTube channel, focused on deep fundamental stock analysis.

Stock Market Research Platform — a paid subscription service providing detailed stock analyses and portfolio updates. He has also lectured and taught finance at the university level in the Netherlands.

Deep fundamental value investing with a global focus. Sven does bottoms-up analysis.

He reads the financial statements, calculates intrinsic value using DCF and comparable methods, and only buys when the price offers a significant margin of safety. He covers international stocks that most American analysts ignore, including European industrials, Asian tech companies, and emerging market banks.

He runs deliberately concentrated portfolios and has said he is comfortable capping one at about eight positions, on the logic that eight is enough to kill catastrophic single-stock risk without diluting returns. A separate diversified portfolio runs to about 15 names at 1% to 3% each.

He is willing to sit on cash, typically somewhere between 10% and 40%, when he cannot find value. He rebalances and rotates when his thesis changes or better opportunities appear, and he publishes his positions and performance openly.

Building a credible, research-driven finance YouTube channel that actually teaches people how to analyze stocks rather than just telling them what to buy. His transparent portfolio tracking is rare in the space — most YouTubers hide their actual performance.

His international coverage has introduced his audience to companies and markets they wouldn't have found otherwise. Some of his early picks in undervalued European and emerging market stocks have produced strong returns.

Sven has been transparent about positions that didn't work out. Some of his value picks — particularly in sectors like energy and emerging market banking — underperformed because the businesses deteriorated faster than his models predicted.

He's discussed the challenge of distinguishing between "cheap for a reason" and "genuinely undervalued," which is the eternal problem of value investing. His transparent portfolio means his mistakes are public, which he views as a feature, not a bug.

Sven believes investing should be treated as a serious analytical discipline, not a hobby or a gambling game. He thinks most retail investors underperform because they rely on tips, narratives, and emotions instead of doing fundamental analysis.

His philosophy is that understanding a business deeply — its financials, its competitive position, its management — is the only sustainable edge available to individual investors. He values intellectual honesty and encourages his audience to develop their own analytical skills rather than just following his picks.

Sven was born in Croatia and lives in Europe. He keeps his personal life relatively private, focusing his public presence on investing education and analysis rather than personal branding.

Sven holds a PhD in finance. He has worked as a finance and accounting lecturer and then assistant professor at the Amsterdam School of International Business, which gives him the deepest academic grounding of any major finance YouTuber.

He approaches investing with the rigor of academic research while keeping it accessible to a general audience.

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