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Tuesday 23 April 2013

Professor Swensen's Asset Allocation Strategy



@ 15 minutes

3 ways to make money:
Asset Allocation
Market Timing
Stock Selection




David Swensen is the chief investment officer of Yale University, where he has produced stunning results in managing portfolios over 25 years. In this lecture, he talks about managing a portfolio for individual investors and stresses on the importance of diversification and equity-orientation.

Special Lecture in Seoul April 2010

Guest Speaker David Swensen (YaleCourses)





Published on 5 Apr 2012
Financial Markets (2011) (ECON 252)

00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction, Overview, and "Barron's" Criticism of the Swensen Approach to Endowment Management
15:49 - Chapter 2. Asset Allocation
30:38 - Chapter 3. Market Timing
37:16 - Chapter 4. Security Selection
46:02 - Chapter 5. "Barron's" Criticism Revisited
52:57 - Chapter 6. Questions & Answers

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu

Saturday 14 April 2012

Quantifying Uncertainty and Risk

Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis I (Lawrence Summers)

Guest Lecture by David Swensen: Investment Management (Yale lecture)




Uploaded by  on Nov 19, 2008
Financial Markets (ECON 252)

David Swensen, Yale's Chief Investment Officer and manager of the University's endowment, discusses the tactics and tools that Yale and other endowments use to create long-term, positive investment returns. He emphasizes the importance of asset allocation and diversification and the limited effects of market timing and security selection. Also, the extraordinary returns of hedge funds, one of the more recent phenomena of portfolio management, should be looked at closely, with an eye for survivorship and back-fill biases.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Changing Institutional Portfolio Management
03:59 - Chapter 2. Asset Allocation: The Power of Diversification
16:44 - Chapter 3. Balancing the Equity Bias into Sensible Diversification
20:48 - Chapter 4. The Emotional Pitfalls of Market Timing
32:58 - Chapter 5. Survivorship and Backfill Biases in Security Selection
43:17 - Chapter 6. Finding Value Investing Opportunities as an Active Manager
49:02 - Chapter 7. Yale's Portfolio and Results
54:48 - Chapter 8. Questions on New Investments, Remaining Bullish, and Time Horizons

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website:http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Spring 2008.