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groups, Yale University arrested 48 student activists for staging a sit-in at the Yale Investment Office to protest Yale’s holdings in the fossil fuel industry and Puerto Rican debt. That same quarter Yale sold 99 percent of its direct investment holdings in Antero Resource Corporation, a natural gas
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As of June 30, 2022, the endowment was valued at $ 41.383 billion. Since the early 1990s, the endowment has generated annual returns for the university of approximately 11.3 percent, with a portion of the annual return forming part of the university's operating budget and the remainder reinvested to
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Yale's endowment has been widely criticized for its investments in fossil fuel companies, Puerto Rican debt, private prisons, companies which provide services to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, subprime mortgage lending companies, and for other controversial holdings. In December 2018, after
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grow the size of the endowment. Spending from revenue earned off the endowment accounted for $ 1.2 billion of the university's operating budget in 2017 and $ 1.5 billion in 2021. The university aims to spend approximately 5.25 percent of the endowment on its annual operating budget.
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Beginning in the early 2000s, some criticized the size of compensation given to the endowment's managers. In 2015, Swensen earned $ 4.5 million, making him the highest-paid employee at the university, surpassing the compensation of even university president
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considered taxing Yale's investment returns as a way of plugging a gap in the state budget. The university objected, in part, on the grounds that such a move would be a violation of the tax exemption guaranteed to the university by the
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sold a portion of his collection of gems and furniture to provide an initial fund of £562 for the establishment of the school's endowment. From 1985 until 2021, the Chief Investment Officer of Yale was alumnus
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The endowment has become known for seeking out "unconventional assets" and for investments in emerging businesses. In the 1990s it invested in
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and has grown to more than $ 40 billion in value over the ensuing 300 years. It is managed by the Yale Investments Office.
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and oil company, according to Yale’s 2018 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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and has a reputation as one of the best-performing investment portfolios in American
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investments had averaged 93-percent returns over the preceding two decades.
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Yale University was founded as "the Collegiate School" in 1701. In 1718,
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