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David F. Swensen

David F. Swensen is the chief investment officer of Yale University and the bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management. He serves on the boards of TIAA, The Brookings Institution, Carnegie Institution, and Hopkins School. At Yale, where he produced an unparalleled two-decade investment record of 16.1 percent-per-annum returns, he teaches economics classes at Yale College and finance classes at Yale¹s School of Management. Mr. Swensen lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Building an All-ETF Ivy Endowment Portfolio
Seeking Alpha, May 26, 2009
...wild market swings we?ve seen in the past few years, indeed. The Tiger Woods of Endowment Management: David Swensen Yale?s Money Guru Shares Wisdom with Masses at NPR.org details the model portfolio recommended by Yale?s endowment manager, David...
Book Excerpt: 'The Ivy Portfolio'
Forbes.com, April 28, 2009
...unfamiliar with the field of asset allocation. Investors interested in the writings of the master himself can read David Swensen's books geared toward the professional investor--Pioneering PortfolioManagement--and the individual investor--Unconventional...
The Universities in Trouble
New York Review of Books, April 23, 2009
...one quite knows how much has been lost. Led by the example of Yale's chief investment officer, David Swensen, whose Pioneering Portfolio Management is described by the chair of the Yale investment committee as 'the best book ever written on managing...
Lazy Portfolio creators see winning times in 2009
MarketWatch, December 29, 2008
...everyone's greedy. And right now, everyone seems pretty fearful.'Yale U's Unconventional portfolioOne final word from David Swensen the manager of the $17 billion Yale Endowment Fund. Yes, the six-fund portfolio for Main Street investors described in his...
Review Go for No! by Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz
Savvy Thinker, September 18, 2009
...revolutionized the mental health industry. Like father, like daughter, Beck... Book Review: Unconventional Success by David F. Swensen David Swensen is no stranger to the institutional investment community. He has famously managed the Yale...
Beginning Investment Strategies to Consider
Four Pillars, September 15, 2009
...book and not from yahoos on the internet (why are you reading this blog then? ) Unconventional Success by David Swensen, The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read by Daniel Solin ( allocation overview here ) and The Four Pillars of Investing:...
Performance Chasing by Professional Investors
Canadian Capitalist, June 16, 2009
...A recent example can be found in the behaviour of giant University endowments. These professional money managers watched David Swensen (author of Unconventional Success ) outperform the stock markets by a wide margin by investing in alternative assets...
Malcolm Gladwell: What Makes Extraordinary People Extraordinary?
GreenLightAdvisor Views, May 19, 2009
...Share and Enjoy: Related posts: Yale’s Swensen: “Extraordinary Opportunities in Distressed Debt Legendary Yale University Endowment investor, David Swensen, says there are extraordinary investment opportunities in the credit...
Cuts at Belo Reach 25% of ‘08 Workforce
Newspaper Death Watch, February 2, 2009
...people making the strongest case for taking news organizations nonprofit mostly work for nonprofits themselves (a reference to David Swensen and Michael Schmidt’s op-ed in The New York Times last week); Nonprofit news organizations still have to meet...
The Next 100 Years
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed, January 22, 2009
...on Lost » Latest Stories Top Radio Brands, Week of 01/12/09 Google Goggling The Geithner Thing Yale's David Swensen on Charlie Rose Previously, on Lost January 22, 2009 The Next 100 Years The error rate on this sort of way-out futurism is immense, but...