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 ...

Private equity, crypto, alternative investments too complex for retirement Renowned money manager David Swensen warned against complicated investing approaches for retirement, pushing instead for low ...

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 ...

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 ...

As chief investment officer of Yale University for more than three decades, David Swensen redefined institutional investing. “Because market players routinely overpay for liquidity,” he wrote in his ...

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 ...