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David F. Swensen

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434:. Swensen's candidacy was suggested by James Tobin, who, despite his former student's young age, believed he could be the right person. Swensen was hesitant about taking the job at first, since he did not know much about portfolio management aside from his studies in graduate school. Nevertheless, Brainard convinced him to take the position and Swensen started on April 1, 1985, by taking an 80% pay cut. A year later, in 1986, he was joined by Yale College and School of Management graduate Dean Takahashi, who soon became Swensen's trusted deputy. In 1985, when Swensen started managing the endowment, it was worth $ 1 billion; in 2019 it was worth $ 29.4 billion. 540:
well as distinguished and devoted alumni in the financial world. Hence, investments were made in venture capital firms, tech firms, and hedge funds. At the early stages not many firms dealt with types of assets Swensen was interested in. In order to invest in such assets he first helped to create those assets by becoming a venture capitalist of venture capitalists. As of 2019 about 60% of Yale endowment portfolio is allocated to alternative investments such as hedge funds, venture capital and private equity.
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downgraded or poorly rated funds into recently upgraded or highly rated funds. The result is the equivalent of buying high and selling low and results in returns for a typical investor far worse than simply buying-and-holding the funds themselves, especially for highly volatile areas such as technology funds. People would do better to focus on diversification among sectors and asset classes, which are the main determinants of long-term results.
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contribution in creation of Modern Portfolio Theory. Swensen was fascinated by the idea of Modern Portfolio Theory. During his 2018 reunion speech Swensen said: "For a given level of return, if you diversify you can get that return at lower risk. For a given level of risk, if you diversify you can get a higher return. That's pretty cool! Free lunch!"
291:. His father, Richard David "Dick" Swensen, was a chemistry professor and dean at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. His mother, Grace Marie (Hartman), after raising six children, became a Lutheran minister. After graduating from River Falls High School in 1971 Swensen elected to stay in his hometown of River Falls and receive his 442:, Swensen's "contribution" to Yale is greater than the sum of all the donations made in more than two decades. "We've just done better," Levin says, because of Swensen's "uncanny ability" to pick the best outside money managers. Swensen's former staff members, who later became managers of other endowment funds - including 553:
founder of Morgan Creek Capital Management, one of the veterans of the endowment investment model, claims that one year where endowments did not outperform but rather "tie everybody else" does not break the endowment model. According to Yusko, the endowment model is still the most viable proposition
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Swensen won numerous awards for his investing and management of Yale's endowment. In 2012, he won the Yale Medal for "outstanding individual service to the University." In 2008, he was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellowship and the year prior, the Mory's Cup for "conspicuous
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After Harvard's endowment dropped a record 30% to $ 26 billion in the year ended June 2009, an 81-page report released in May 2010 found that "The endowment model of investing is broken. Whatever long-term gains it may have produced for colleges and universities in the past must now be weighed more
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Particularly revolutionary at the time was his recognition that liquidity is a bad thing to be avoided rather than a good thing to be sought out, since it comes at a heavy price in the shape of lower returns. The Yale Model is thus characterized by relatively heavy exposure to asset classes such as
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In September 2014, Swensen began to move the Yale endowment away from investment in companies that have a large greenhouse footprint, expressing Yale's preferences in a letter to the endowment's money managers. The letter asked them to consider the effect of their investments on climate change, and
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administration and a future Nobel Prize laureate in economics. According to Charles Ellis, founder of Greenwich Associates and former chair of Yale's investment committee, "When it snowed, David went to Jim's house to shovel the sidewalk". James Tobin's Nobel Prize, among other things, was for his
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and investment banks). He stated that "commercial banking serves a very important, useful function: gathering of deposits and making of loans, and if we define that function very narrowly and regulate it very heavily and required it to maintain a high level of capital then the capital environment
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Soon after heading the Yale investment office, Swensen, together with Takahashi, sought out investments that would allow both diversification and higher return. They also implemented strategies that would take advantage of endowment idiosyncrasies: presumption of perpetuity, tax-exempt status, as
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entitled "The Mutual Fund Merry-Go-Round," about how the pursuit of profits by the management companies creates a conflict of interest with fiduciary responsibilities to their investors. The advertising of Morningstar ratings leads investors to chase past leaders and roll money out of recently
517:. It consists broadly of dividing a portfolio into five or six roughly equal parts and investing each in a different asset class. Central in the Yale Model is broad diversification and an equity orientation, avoiding asset classes with low expected returns such as 529:
private equity compared to more traditional portfolios. The model is also characterized by heavy reliance on investment managers in these specialized asset classes, a characteristic that has made manager selection at Yale a famously careful process.
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companies for charging excessive fees and not living up to their fiduciary responsibility. He highlights the conflict of interest inherent in the mutual funds, claiming they want high fee, high turnover funds while investors want the opposite.
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As of 2005, the fund had managed annualized returns of 16.1%. He has been called "Yale's 8 billion dollar man" for his attainment of nearly $ 8 billion for the college endowment from 1985 to 2005. According to former Yale President, economist
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to refrain from investing in companies that do not make reasonable efforts to reduce carbon emissions. This method was characterized by Swensen as a more subtle and flexible approach, as opposed to outright divestment.
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in 1980. This career move was suggested by a Salomon Brothers investment banker and Yale alumni, Gene Dattel, who was deeply impressed by Swensen. In 1981 Swensen worked as an associate in
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Many institutional investors have tried to replicate the Swensen Approach and the Yale Model to fit their hedge funds, pensions funds, and endowments, but have not seen the same results.
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entitled "News You Can Endow" discussing the idea of newspaper organizations run as non-profits by endowments. On August 13, 2011, David Swensen published an op-ed in
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commonly known in the investing world as the "Endowment Model." His investing philosophy has been dubbed the "Swensen Approach" and is unique in that it stresses
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which is an investment guide for the individual investor. The general strategy that he presents can be boiled down to the following three main points of advice:
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Swensen was tapped to serve as the Yale endowment manager at age 31 in 1985. This position was offered by Swensen's other dissertation adviser, Yale's provost,
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His investment success with the Yale Endowment has attracted the notice of Wall Street portfolio managers and other universities. "He's right up there with
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The investor should construct a portfolio with money allocated to 6 core asset classes, diversifying among them and biasing toward the equity sections.
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fully against its costs – to campuses, to communities and to the wider financial system that has come under such severe stress." In a video interview,
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which allowed IBM to hedge their exposure to Swiss francs and German marks and the World Bank to make loans in those currencies more efficiently.
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for long-term investors. Investors would also realize that mark-to-market reporting has a bigger impact on reported performance than before.
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activities, where his work focused on developing new financial products. Swensen engineered the first currency swap transaction according to
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During an interview with Yale's international center of finance, he stated that capital markets would be much better off under the
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of 11.8 percent from 1999 to 2009. As of the 2016 fiscal year, Yale's endowment had risen by 3.4%, the most out of any
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This type of investing – allocating only a small amount to traditional U.S. equities and bonds and more to
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On January 28, 2009, Swensen and Michael Schmidt, a financial analyst at Yale, published an op-ed piece in
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service to Yale." Also in 2007, he was awarded the Hopkins Medal "for commitment, devotion and loyalty to
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In 2008, he was inducted into Institutional Investors Alpha's Hedge Fund Manager Hall of Fame along with
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Swensen made headlines on March 5, 2018 for arguing with the undergraduate editor-in-chief of the
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https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1k52pp0nq4f8b/The-Easily-Misunderstood-Yale-Model
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for Salomon Brothers to structure the world's first currency swap agreement, a deal between
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Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
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have adopted his allocation strategies to mixed success. Under Swensen's guidance the
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Swensen began his investment career in the early 1980s, and has since advised the
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Following his academic interest in valuation of corporate bonds, Swensen joined
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In the absence of confidence in a market-beating strategy, invest in low-cost
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where his father Richard Swensen was a professor. Swensen pursued a PhD in
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back to the original weightings of the asset classes in the portfolio).
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McDonald, Michael; Lorin, Janet; Bennett, Drake (September 11, 2019).
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from the school, he coined his investment philosophy "The Yale Model".
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stocks, domestic stocks, and developing world international equities.
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Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
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Swensen began advising the Yale Endowment in 1985; having earned his
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
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In February 2009, Swensen was named to a two-year term on President
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The investor should rebalance the portfolio on a regular basis (
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that limits the interaction between stock activities within
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Prior to joining Yale in 1985, Swensen spent three years on
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Swensen was responsible for managing and investing Yale's
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Alumni mount campaign for Swensen's name on new college
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Swenson, David; Schmidt, Michael (January 28, 2009).
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David Swensen
Ames, Iowa
New Haven, Connecticut
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
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BA
Yale University
PhD
Yale endowment
Thesis
endowment fund manager
Yale University
endowment assets
investment funds
modern portfolio theory
allocation of capital
Treasury inflation protection securities
emerging market
John Bogle
Peter Lynch
Graham
Dodd
Byron Wien
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Wesleyan
University of Pennsylvania
Yale Endowment
annual return

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