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The Yale University endowment is the world's second-largest university endowment and has a reputation as one of the best-performing investment portfolios in American higher education. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The endowment was established at Yale University , then Yale College, in 1718 from an initial fund of £562 provided by Elihu Yale and has grown ...
David Frederick Swensen (January 26, 1954 – May 5, 2021) was an American investor, endowment fund manager, and philanthropist.He was the chief investment officer at Yale University from 1985 until his death in May 2021.
Harvard University, with a $49.495 billion endowment as of FY2023, is the wealthiest university in the world. Many colleges and universities in the United States maintain a financial endowment consisting of assets that are invested in financial securities, real estate, and other instruments.
University endowments set records in the 2021 fiscal year largely on the back of private market investments. But it wasn't the supersized funds managed by the likes of Harvard, Stanford and Yale ...
Harvard has the largest endowment at $39.2 billion, with Yale at $29.4 billion. But in the latest fiscal year ending in June 2018, Yale posted a 12.3% return, beating Harvard's 10% return ...
Changes in endowment investment strategies, the breadth of protesters’ demands and Israel’s integration into the global economy render divestment extremely difficult to implement.
Founded in 2007, the DHSRI fund was initially seeded with a $50,000 portion of the Dwight Hall at Yale Organization's endowment . [8] [9] [10] As the umbrella volunteer organization on Yale's campus, Dwight Hall invests a large portion of its endowment with the Yale Investments Office, which is headed by the money-manager David Swensen.
Hillhouse Investment is a global private equity firm with an East Asian heritage. [2] [3] [4] Hillhouse was founded by Lei Zhang in 2005 with initial seed capital from the Yale University endowment and invests across East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. [5]