Harvard's Secret to Endowment Investing Success

By Paul Kedrosky · Sunday, January 21, 2007 ·
Ivy League schools have turned in remarkable investing track records on multi-billion-dollar endowments. How have they done so well? There are a number of reasons, but my favorite is one cited in the current Economist:
According to one former Harvard official, its endowment fund has done so well because it has avoided taking advice from the economics faculty.
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