Yale Daily News

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Endowment is up 28 percent

Fund increases to $22.5 billion from $18 billion

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, September 27, 2007

The University endowment returned a staggering 28.0 percent last fiscal year, the strongest performance of any large college endowment fund so far this year.

The returns boost the endowment to $22.5 billion from last fall’s total of $18 billion, according to a University press release, keeping it the second-largest university fund in the country. But some investing experts questioned how much longer Yale can continue to lead a crowded endowment field that is increasingly adopting the same strategies Yale has profited from over the past decades.

The year’s performance was an...

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