David Swensen News
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Motif Investing Inc., a Web-based startup that lets investors buy baskets of stocks based on themes like home improvement and Obamacare, raised $25 million in a financing round led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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The University of Pennsylvania has hired Peter Ammon to oversee investments in its endowment and pension plan, which have a combined $7.8 billion of assets.
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David Swensen, who pioneered an investing style that helped endowments beat markets by using alternative assets such as private equity and real estate, said investors who don’t have access to top managers are best off using index products.
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Yale University, home to the top- performing endowment, paid Chief Investment Officer David Swensen $3.7 million in 2008, less than the five top-earning money managers at Harvard University.
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David Swensen, the long-serving head of Yale University’s endowment who helped rewrite how colleges invest their money, has been diagnosed with cancer.
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Yale University, the second- wealthiest college, may increase its holdings of hedge funds after cutting them last year and shifting into cash, according to a report from the investments office run by David Swensen.
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Harvard University, Yale University and Stanford University, with combined endowments about equal to the gross domestic product of Lithuania, are among 15 of the wealthiest colleges and universities that borrowed $7.2 billion because their highbrow investing left them suddenly strapped for cash.
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Yale University, whose endowment strategy is a model for U.S. schools, said its investments rose 8.9 percent, trailing Harvard University and the three other Ivy League funds that have reported returns for the past year.
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Shortly after she took over as chief executive officer of Harvard Management Co. on July 1, 2008, Jane Mendillo gathered the university endowment’s 200- member staff for a town-hall-style meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank Building in downtown Boston, across the Charles River from Harvard University.
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Jane Mendillo, who took over as head of Harvard University’s $32 billion endowment four years ago, is still searching for an edge.
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