Taesik Yoon
Taesik Yoon is a financial editor with 20 years of progressive financial writing experience and a proven track record of identifying stocks that help people build wealth. Yoon is the Lead Editor of Forbes Investor and Forbes Special Situation Survey, the two longest-running investment newsletters currently published by Forbes Media. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of both newsletters’ production – from stock selection to publication. He also provides and manages independent investment advice, analysis, and market commentary to individual investors and financial professionals. Since joining Forbes in 2000 as an equity analyst, he has gained over two decades of experience analyzing equities across multiple sectors and industries.
Taesik Yoon Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Editor, Forbes Investor and Forbes Special Situation Survey
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Senior Equity Analyst, Associate Editor
Academic History
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B.S., Marketing and International Business
As Editor of Forbes Investor, he instituted significant changes designed to improve the newsletter's overall performance and subscribers.
Under his leadership, the newsletter led its best annual performance in its 14-year history in 2013– with a 55.3% gain in its primary portfolio and 73.2% in its core sub-portfolio.
helped result in nearly a quadrupling in the total number of paid subscribers and a 182% jump in net revenues from the prior year.
FORBES SPECIAL SITUATION SURVEY
He provides independent investment advice, analysis and market commentary through buy, hold, and sell recommendations.
His contributions produced the only newsletter ranked in the top ten in overall performance on a five-year, three-year, and one-year basis according to newsletter ranking service Hulbert Financial Digest.
His stock selections have been featured on Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, SN Money, Seeking Alpha, the Money Show and the Dick Davis Digest.
EARLY CAREER