Swensen made billions for Yale and revolutionized the way Universities and other nonprofits invest. And he strove to teach everyday people how to... David Swensen, The Greatest Investor You Maybe ...

David Swensen is the chief investment officer of Yale University's $19.4 billion fund. He is also the author of an excellent book, Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment ...

David Swensen is one of America's greatest investors. As chief investment officer of Yale University, he has produced what has been described as an “unparalleled two-decade” investment record, ...

Universities, pensions and foundations have piled into private equity for decades, hoping to match the blockbuster returns of Yale’s legendary endowment chief, David Swensen. But Swensen’s approach is ...

Yale University’s $41 billion endowment, led for decades by the late investing giant David Swensen, has been the envy – and the blueprint — for many US universities eager to secure their financial ...

Janet Currie, a renowned economist and pioneer in the economic analysis of child development, has been appointed the David Swensen Professor of Economics and co-director of the Tobin-Cowles Health ...

Legendary investor David Swensen famously jumpstarted Yale University’s endowment by focusing on unconventional strategies, ultimately growing it from $1.3 billion to $31.2 billion. When he became its ...

When the search for alpha takes conservative portfolios such as the Harvard and Yale endowments into the land of bellies, beans and bullion, investors — and their advisors — take notice. Consider that ...

The endowment of Yale University has dipped 25 percent due to the economic downturn, but setbacks will not alter the institution’s strategy, David Swensen, Yale’s chief investment officer, tells The ...

Legendary Yale University endowment head David Swensen loved to riff on Benjamin Franklin’s line about life’s only certainties being death and taxes. True, Swensen would say, but the adage didn’t ...