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David F. Swensen

David F. Swensen
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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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Feb 03, 2009
Pioneering Portfolio Management is now available in Hardcover
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Read: A Few Non-Boring Investment Books
LifeHealthPro, August 16, 2012
...it’s wise to develop investing skills before unleashing one’s self on the general public.) "Unconventional Success," David F. Swensen (Free Press, 2005). Swensen tells how he manages the Yale endowment. (Some of the techniques would apply to...
Fred Lundgren: The President Should Seek More Advice From the Working Wounded
One News Page, January 7, 2013
...Donaldson, SEC Chair, 2003-05; Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO, TIAA-CREF; Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO, UBS; David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University; Mark T. Gallogly, founder and managing partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.; Penny Pritzker,...
Fred Lundgren: The President Should Seek More Advice From the Working Wounded
Huffington Post, January 7, 2013
...Donaldson, SEC Chair, 2003-05; Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO, TIAA-CREF; Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO, UBS; David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University; Mark T. Gallogly, founder and managing partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.; Penny Pritzker,...
Alums return to Yale for service opportunities
Yale Daily News, November 13, 2012
...Greenberg ’59, Richard J. Franke ’53, Ellen Gibson McGinnis ’82, Robert E. Steele ’75, Nancy Stratford ’77 and David F. Swensen ’80 received the six AYA awards. The Yale-Jefferson public service award was given to J.B. Schramm ’86. ...
The New Pension Plan
Financial Advisor Magazine, November 8, 2012
...impressive investment records of the modern era but who has an impeccable reputation for character and intellectual integrity, David F. Swensen, chief investment officer of Yale University: The fundamental market failure in the mutual fund industry...
Why the Yale endowment model has potentially calamitous pitfalls according to ... Yale itself
RIABiz, September 21, 2012
...what happens; they do not actively manage their risks. The case for MPT As Yale chief investment officer David F. Swensen explains in a lecture that he gave to Yale MBAs in 2008 (which you can watch on YouTube)(2), the Yale model rests on two core...
Read: A Few Non-Boring Investment Books
LifeHealthPro, August 16, 2012
...it’s wise to develop investing skills before unleashing one’s self on the general public.) "Unconventional Success," David F. Swensen (Free Press, 2005). Swensen tells how he manages the Yale endowment. (Some of the techniques would apply to...
Why the Yale endowment model may still be fundamentally flawed
RIABiz, June 15, 2012
...future financial disasters. I speak to each of these points below. The endowment model Yale chief investment officer David F. Swensen has received much credit for “Pioneering Portfolio Management.”(2) When he began in 1985, the Yale Endowment was...