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The Yale Investment Office, which manages the Yale Endowment, devoted a couple of pages of its 32 pages annual report to explaining why it disagrees with Warren Buffett’s advocacy of index investing. The report points out that the endowment has had very strong returns for many decades and delivered returns better than index investors. It’s […]
The Yale University Endowment Fund doesn’t follow the low-cost, index investing strategy of portfolio management. Instead, it owns a lot of hedge funds, private equity funds, and similar investments. The endowment pays a lot of fees to the managers of these funds, and it thinks that’s a good idea. In its annual report the endowment […]
The Harvard University Endowment recently overhauled its investment practices. It intends to reduce its staff and rely more on outside investment advisors. But a major problem that university has had apparently isn’t with its endowment investments but with the way its cash is invested. This article explains that over the objections of several of its […]
The longtime head of the Yale University Endowment is famous in money management circles but not so much elsewhere. In this article, The New York Times talks to him about his career, strategies for managing money, and more. In a series of extended interviews, he and more than a half-dozen of his investment-office veterans discussed […]
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