David Swensen, Who Revolutionized Endowment Investing, Dies at 67
At Yale, a colleague said, he showed “there was a way to compete hard and well in financial markets, but to have our lives be about something that mattered more.”
The money manager David Swensen, who oversaw Yale University’s endowment, in an undated photo. His investment strategy became known as the “Yale model” and was imitated by other colleges and universities.Credit.Driely Schwartz Vieira for The New York Times
Published May 6, 2021Updated May 7, 2021
David Swensen, a money manager who gave up a lucrative Wall Street career to oversee Yale University’s endowment and proceeded to revolutionize endowment investing, in the process making Yale’s the best-performing fund in the country over a 20-year period, died on Wednesday in New Haven, Conn. He was 67.
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More than 40 works by local and national artists are up for bid Jan. 14-21. Written By: John Lamb | ×
A porcelain teapot by North Dakota State University instructor Dave Swenson. Special to The Forum
FARGO After the Plains Art Museum’s annual Spring Gala was scrapped last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, staff started thinking of different ways to hold the event’s anticipated art auction.
Rather than holding off for one big auction this year, the Plains will host four smaller auctions, each focused on a specific medium or theme.
The plan rolls out with the online-only Pop Up on the Plains: Ceramic Art Auction. While bidding runs Jan. 14-21, works are already up for view on the Plains’ website.
How much real estate should you have in a balanced portfolio?
By Jonathan Chevreau on May 5, 2021
REITs and REIT ETFs offer exposure to residential or commercial real estate, without the hassle of being a landlord. But how safe will they be in a post-COVID world?
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When investors talk about income-producing assets, the first that come to mind are dividends and interest, with capital gains a close third. But what about investment real estate? If you hold an asset allocation ETF, it will be chock full of stocks and bonds but offer little real estate exposure apart from a few publicly traded real estate firms.
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Johnson County landowners consider trading ethanol crop for fields of solar in $4.7M project Source: By Zachary Oren Smith, Iowa City Press-Citizen • Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
On land that has yielded corn and beans, Jim Dane and some other Johnson County farmers may see something new produced.
Locally, the Dane name is associated with Dane’s Dairy, a popular ice cream shop just off Highway 1 now run by his sister. But Jim Dane still works 500 acres his family accumulated over the last century. Today, 200 acres are in the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program; some of the remaining 300 are in row crop.