Jeff Muskus
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Swensen brings ideas to new book
Yale Chief Investments Officer David Swensen's new book, "Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment," began as a way to apply the lessons of endowment management to an individual's portfolio. But by the time he finished the...
Yale's investment chief shares some strategies
Swensen's reign has yielded larger returns, contention
Yale's investments are guarded by a Viking in gray slacks. Tall and lanky, David Swensen GRD '80, Yale's chief investment officer, usually wields a pen rather than a battle axe. But those close to the University's top money manager are quick to note...
Unions find new forums for change
Labor groups trade in strikes for committee meetings
Union representatives are still protesting some Yale policies two years after the end of a protracted strike, but their voices are now filtered through committees rather than megaphones. Though local union members have marched on University offices...
Endowment tops $15 bill.
Investments bring a 22.3 percent return
Thanks to an impressive 22.3 percent rate of return, Yale saw its endowment grow to $15.2 billion in the last fiscal year. The endowment's total value rose by approximately $2.5 billion over the past fiscal year, which ended June 30. Faced with...
Biomedical Engineering finds new home
Though undergraduates have been living in their dormitories for nearly a month, members of Yale's Biomedical Engineering Department are just starting to move into their own new quarters. Construction crews finished their work at the Malone Center on...
ITS to update Yale Webmail system
More stable version will prevent overload
Some obsessive e-mail checkers might cringe at memories of stalled connections from overloaded servers, but new software and hardware upgrades may soon delete worries about system performance. After several months of preliminary beta testing, Yale...
University adapts to energy price hike
With oil and gas prices soaring, Yale officials are reworking the University's energy policies in an attempt to keep finances in the black without leaving students in the dark. By the first day of class, Yale had already expended the contingency...
Beinecke asked to cede texts
Nearly 2,000 documents from America's colonial era have spent half a century on loan to Yale, and the owners of those centuries-old items now say they are overdue. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library currently holds the collection, which were...
Organic food options triple
Rise in funds allows more organic meals
Though the Berkeley College dining hall will remain the only Yale eatery to serve entirely organic food this year, a roughly 50 percent increase in total expenses for the Yale Sustainable Foods Project will help bring organic items to all residential...
Hiring practices prompt union meetings
Yale's labor unions began an era of relative peace and trust-building with the University two years ago after three weeks on strike, but new allegations of unfair hiring practices have raised tensions and brought protesters back to management offices.