Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment Pioneering

by David F. Swensen

408 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

David F. Swensen (born 1954) has been the Chief Investment Officer at Yale University since 1985. He is responsible for managing and investing the University's endowment assets and investment funds, which total $23.9 billion. Realizing an average annual return of 11.8 percent on his investments over the ten years to 2009, Swensen's consistent track record has attracted the notice of Wall Street portfolio managers. He is notable for inventing The Yale Model which is an application of modern portfolio theory. Swensen was listed third on aiCIO's 2012, a list of the 100 most influential institutional investors worldwide

Reviews

[Simi · Rating 5 out of 5]

outdated but good

[Tate Bregman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Assigned reading for my internship. Bit of a slow start but quite interesting.

[Maya Tang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Feel like a lot of this is common sense but still interesting

[Olivia Baljet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Required reading for work. Was pretty dense and definitely not entertaining but very applicable to the job so felt 3 stars was deserved.

[Alice Halpern · Rating 4 out of 5]

work related stuff book that took me forever to read 🤓