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 ...

Yale University's endowment grew by billions during the last fiscal year - further securing its spot as the second wealthiest private university in the nation. As of June 30, Yale's endowment was ...

Yale’s endowment earned an 11.1% investment return, net of fees, for the year ending June 30, 2025, representing $4.5 billion in investment gains. After providing distributions of $2.1 billion to the ...

Universities have begun to rethink the widely emulated “Yale Endowment Model” investment strategy. The combination of apparent underperformance of private equity relative to public market indexes and ...

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 ...

I n recent months the way our wealthiest universities invest their endowments has been characterized as “disastrous,” “calamitous,” and to have “flopped.” The Wall Street Journal has run a steady ...