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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Swensen left a lucrative Wall Street career in 1985 to manage the Yale endowment. He introduced a new investment-management philosophy and literally wrote the book describing the technique. The ...