David Swensen Passes

[Parsad]

Yale's extremely well-regarded endowment manager, David Swensen, passed away from cancer:

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/5fe5568a-2b47-3c65-847e-aee46bd42f41/david-swensen-dies-at-67-how.html

[DocSnowball]

RIP David Swensen, one of the greats. 

In this lecture, he distilled more for me about markets and investing than anything else I've learned. What a legend.

https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252-11/lecture-6

 

[boilermaker75]

I remember his book, "Unconventional Success," as being pretty good.

[jobyts]

I was randomly listening to a podcast 2 days back by Ted Seides, who used to work with David Swenson. In the whole interview, he was referring to David Swenson and his skills.

https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/episodes/how-to-invest-like-the-best-w-ted-seides/ 

[John Hjorth]

On 5/7/2021 at 1:19 PM, boilermaker75 said:

I remember his book, "Unconventional Success," as being pretty good.

Mike,

Do we have this book in CoBF Books forum? - I do not recall seeing it there.

[boilermaker75]

20 hours ago, John Hjorth said:

Mike,

Do we have this book in CoBF Books forum? - I do not recall seeing it there.

 

John,

I don't recall seeing it in the CoBF Books forum.

It has been quite a while since I read it, > 10 years. So, I don't recall what is in it other than I had a good impression. I should reread it. I probably would get much more out of it today than I did when I originally read it. If I get to rereading it, I will post my impressions and some detail of what I got out of it.

Mike

 

[John Hjorth]

Thank you, Mike,

I've read several places over the years, that Mr. Swensen was very successful in his work for Yale. RIP.

Edited May 27, 2021 by John Hjorth

[Xerxes]

In the meantime, here is a column on him on The Economist

David Swensen, an influential investor, died on May 5th | The Economist 

Edited May 27, 2021 by Xerxes

[John Hjorth]

Thank you for sharing, Xerxes,

I just ordered :

David F. Swensen : Unconventional success, &

David F. Swensen : Pioneering Portfolio Management

at saxo.com .

[Xerxes]

Cheers

Same here, though I ordered only the second title.

[Xerxes]

Charley Ellis - The Magic of David Swensen (EP.197) - Ted Seides (capitalallocators.com) 

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