David F. Swensen

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Chief Investment Officer, Yale University 1985-2021

Pioneering Portfolio Management defined the endowment model that institutional investors worldwide copied, and Unconventional Success is its counterpart argument for individuals.

2 books of their own · 21 letters

Books they wrote 2

Pioneering Portfolio Management

Pioneering Portfolio Management

· 2000 · Subtitled An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment; revised 2009.

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Unconventional Success

Unconventional Success

· 2005 · Subtitled A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment.

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Letters 21

web.archive.org/web/20241223140655/investments.yale.edu/reports/

The Yale Endowment annual reports are Swensen's letters: he was Yale's chief investment officer from 1985 until his death in May 2021 and wrote them. investments.yale.edu/reports now returns a 404; the last good capture, 23 December 2024, lists 'Endowment Update' PDFs for every year 2001 through 2021 and separate press releases for 2001-2024. The 2021 report was published after his death. Pre-2001 reports are not online anywhere.

• The Yale Endowment 20212021
• The Yale Endowment 20202020
• The Yale Endowment 20192019
• The Yale Endowment 20182018
• The Yale Endowment 20172017
• The Yale Endowment 20162016
• The Yale Endowment 20152015
• The Yale Endowment 20142014
• The Yale Endowment 20132013
• The Yale Endowment 20122012
• The Yale Endowment 20112011
• The Yale Endowment 20102010
• The Yale Endowment 20092009
• The Yale Endowment 20082008
• The Yale Endowment 20072007
• The Yale Endowment 20062006
• The Yale Endowment 20052005
• The Yale Endowment 20042004
• The Yale Endowment 20032003
• The Yale Endowment 20022002
• The Yale Endowment 20012001

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