Yale endowment super performance

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>$22.5B from $18B! Whoa!</p>

<p><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21525%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21525&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aT_Lp25iUGnw%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aT_Lp25iUGnw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The endowment was only $5.8B back ten years ago. I had Swensen as my Stocks & Bonds professor my senior year. The school should name a building after him!</p>

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<p>It'll be Swensen University if he keeps this up. :) Congrats to the Yale investment managers. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/business/27yale.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/business/27yale.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p><a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2005_07/swensen.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2005_07/swensen.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>An article a few years ago called him the $8 Billion dollar man -- b/c this is how much he outperformed the average endowment growth rates.</p>

<p>I wonder what it would be now? The $12 billion dollar man?</p>

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<p>Incredible. They beat out every other university out there by a mile, as usual.</p>