Yale Daily News, October 16, 2011, Sunday

Yale Daily News

October 16, 2011, Sunday

Yale Daily News (full article)

Return on endowment rivals peers

“Yale’s endowment is allocated across asset classes in order to maximize long-term return while controlling risk,” Salovey said. “There will be years in which it performs better than other university endowments and years when it does not. The important question is how does it do on an absolute and comparative basis over the long-term.”

Despite the Ivies’ impressive endowment performances this year, today’s unstable markets make it difficult to anticipate how higher education investments will perform in the future, said Ronald Ehrenberg, director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.