From 1985 to 2015, Yale’s investment in venture capital as a percentage of its endowment increased almost 15-fold, per the Investment Office’s annual endowment update. The Prospect Fellowship, an ...

In a sign of the headwinds facing universities, Yale University is seeking to sell a major chunk of its private equity holdings, a class of long-term investments that helped grow its endowment to ...

Endowment funds such as Yale University’s, which focuses on investment alternatives, have been great examples of multi-asset-class investing strategies over the last two decades. Case in point ...

Yale President Peter Salovey today announced the appointment of Matthew S. T. Mendelsohn ’07, a veteran of the Yale Investments Office, as the university’s next chief investment officer.. Mendelsohn, ...

Yale University’s investments in weapons manufacturers violate Connecticut state law, organizers at the school allege in a complaint filed Wednesday with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong.

Yale University students walk to the building housing Yale Investments office in New Haven after disrupting a talk about personal finance featuring Yale University's Chief Investment Officer David ...

Swensen, the university s chief investment guru, is largely credited with the phenomenal gains enjoyed by Yale s endowment in the last decade, which now stands at $12.7 billion, a $2.1 billion ...

Yale’s endowment earned an 11.3% investment return (net of fees) for the year ending June 30, 2017. The endowment value increased from $25.4 billion on June 30, 2016, to $27.2 billion on June 30, 2017 ...

In a Tuesday letter to the Yale community, Swensen reported that after months of talking with Yale’s external investment managers about the potential risks associated with investments in coal, oil, ...

Yale University, facing pressure to address ethical issues like gun violence, may consider exiting private equity and hedge fund investments that it deems socially irresponsible. Yale, which has ...

The ivory tower wizards running one of the U.S.'s largest university endowments have woefully lagged the stock market recently. Over the past three years, Yale's endowment returned 12.8% annually ...