Developed Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen and Director of Yale Investments Office Dean Takahashi, Yale University’s model of asset allocation has been the benchmark in endowment investing. An article…
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Is Yale's David Swensen Horrible for Investing?
An article in Institutional Investor offers an in-depth discussion of the Yale University endowment investment model created by David Swensen, who has overseen the portfolio for over three decades, and…
Yale Says its Endowment "Crushes" Indexes
The 2017 Yale University annual report argues in favor of active management strategies used by the investment offices of the country’s ivy league schools, according to a recent article in Institutional…
Yale Endowment Learns Lesson on Diversification
Strong long-term performance has made the Yale University endowment fund—with a mere 4% weighting in U.S. stocks and heavy allocations to alternative investments– the widely accepted diversification model, according to…