The late David Swensen, longtime chief investment officer for Yale University, has been rightly lauded for creating a ...

He hired Paula Volent, a Yale School of Management student, to help file documents. Swensen encouraged the newbie to ask ...

David Swensen’s investment prowess was legendary. His pioneering approach to the Yale endowment made him one of the world’s most renowned and influential institutional investors. But within the Yale ...

David Swensen, among the most highly regarded money managers in the world after growing Yale’s endowment from $1 billion when he joined as a 31-year-old former grad student of the school, to the ...

David Swensen wrote Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment, one of the best-selling investment books of 2005. Since then, Swensen, who has a phenomenal track record ...

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The late David Swensen. Why does Yale have a $31 billion endowment? More than anyone, David Swensen gets the credit. Swensen headed the Yale investment office since 1985. He died Wednesday evening at ...

David Swensen changed how everyone who is serious about investing thinks about investing,” said Charles Ellis, the former chair of Yale’s endowment.

A few dozen other stone-faced students also rose. “David Swensen,” she proclaimed, “while you stand here teaching us how to hoard wealth, there are 20 students occupying the investments office.

The new institute is named for the late David F. Swensen, who served as Yale’s chief investment officer for more than 35 years with a record of investment success that made him legendary in ...