He hired Paula Volent, a Yale School of Management student, to help file documents. Swensen encouraged the newbie to ask ...

The late David Swensen, longtime chief investment officer for Yale University, has been rightly lauded for creating a ...

David Swensen speaks in 2012 at an event honoring Jack Bogle, who created the first index fund. Like Bogle, Swensen was a champion of the every-day investor who he thought should invest in low-fee ...

David Swensen, among the most highly regarded money managers in the world after growing Yale’s endowment from $1 billion when he joined as a 31-year-old former grad student of the school, to the ...

David Swensen’s investment prowess was legendary. His pioneering approach to the Yale endowment made him one of the world’s most renowned and influential institutional investors. But within the Yale ...

A few dozen other stone-faced students also rose. “David Swensen,” she proclaimed, “while you stand here teaching us how to hoard wealth, there are 20 students occupying the investments office.

David Swensen has been the chief investment officer of the Yale Endowment since 1985. At the end of 2008, the endowment was the second-largest higher education endowment at about $17 billion.