Pioneering Portfolio Management
An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated
$64.37
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2009
Summary
An indispensable roadmap for creating a successful investment program from Yale’s chief investment officer, David F. Swensen.
In the years since the now-classic Pioneering Portfolio Management was first published, the global investment landscape has changed dramatically – but the results of David Swensen’s investment strategy for the Yale University endowment have remained as impressive as ever. Year after year, Yale’s portfolio has trumped the marketplace by…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416544692 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1416544690 |
| Author: | David F. Swensen |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | The Free Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 0002nd |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Jack R. Meyer,President and CEO,Harvard Management Company, Inc.A masterful work by the master himself. We at Harvard wish that David Swensen would find a new job.
Barton M. Biggs, Chairman,
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management
David Swensen is one of the best and most original fiduciaries of modern times. His thinking has survived the battlefields and it has worked for big money.
Burton G. Malkiel, Chemical Bank
Chairman’s Professor of Economics, Princeton University
One of the world’s most successful institutional fund managers presents powerful insights to help us become better investors. A must-read for both institutional and serious individual investors.
Jack R. Meyer, President and CEO,
Harvard Management Company, Inc.
A masterful work by the master himself. We at Harvard wish that David Swensen would find a new job.
Peter L. Bernstein, President
Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.
This book will be a classic: it is essential reading for all investors, great and small. David Swensen is a leader and pioneer whose words reveal a rare combination of courage, integrity, and intelligence. No one can fail to find value here.
Richard C. Levin
F.W. Beinecke Professor of Economics and President, Yale University
David Swensen’s creative and disciplined approach to investment has given Yale the resources it needs to augment its capacity for excellence in scholarship and teaching. Those who absorb the wisdom in this book will likewise strengthen the institutions they serve.
About The Author
David F. Swensen
David F. Swensen (1954–2021) was the chief investment officer of Yale University and the bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management. He served on the boards of TIAA, The Brookings Institution, Carnegie Institution, and Hopkins School. At Yale, where he produced an unparalleled two-decade investment record of 16.1 percent-per-annum returns, he taught economics classes at Yale College and finance classes at Yale’s School of Management.
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