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Quote of the day by David Swensen: "The underlying driving force behind market timing decisions seems to be emotional — fear, greed, chasing performance — buying something after it has gone up, disappointment, and sales after something has declined."David Swensen emphasizes that emotional biases, such as fear, greed, and performance chasing, often drive poor market timing decisions. Inv...
Quote of the day by David Swensen: "If you’re investing with a long time horizon, having an equity bias makes sense; stocks go up in the long run"David Swensen emphasised the importance of maintaining an equity bias for long-term investors, noting that stocks tend to deliver stronger ...
Nirmal Narvekar, Harvard’s $57 billion Indian-American money manager, bows outNirmal Narvekar, the Indian-American financier behind Harvard University's massive endowment, is set to retire in 2027. His tenure saw a si...
10 tips from David Swensen to achieve 'unconventional success' in investingSwensen's investment principles were based on the power of diversification to minimise risk. His approach revolutionized the way institutio...
From investments in Tencent to Zoom, Hillhouse founder Lei Zhang is one of the world’s richest financiersZhang met with Zoom’s Yuan in Menlo Park, California, before an early funding round in February 2015. Yuan explained the business and his e...
TPG's Trujillo goes from investor to fixer atop troubled UberStakes are high as San Francisco-based Uber seeks to rebuild its culture after a series of harassment and discrimination allegations led to...
- Yale varsity finds value in distressed corporate debt
Yale University, whose endowment dropped $5.9 billion in six months because of the recession, is pursuing a recovery by acquiring distresse...
- Harvard endowment looks to regain lost sheen
Mohamed El-Erian took over the management of Harvard University’s $29.2-billion endowment, the world’s largest, five months after its previ...