Leading investment managers honored longtime Yale endowment manager David Swensen, who articulated a novel institutional ...

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 ...

Commercial real estate represents 16% of the U.S. investment market making it the third largest asset class after equity and ...

Odds are you’ve never heard of the late David Swensen, a finance legend who ran Yale University’s endowment fund. Swensen was an investment pioneer who committed substantial sums of Yale’s money to ...

“David took the time and his talent to figure out — in a way that no one had yet figured out — what endowment investing was all about: perpetual institutions and their long-term health,” notes Ellis.