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Yale sells up to $6B of its PE portfolio amid federal funding challenge

by themgt on 4/19/25, 12:05 AM with 17 comments

• by k-i-r-t-h-i on 4/19/25, 12:21 AM

  Seems like that might be close to 25% of their alt investments. This sounds rather serious.

  > the endowment’s value increased to $41.4 billion on June 30, 2024, up from $40.7 billion on June 30, 2023

  https://news.yale.edu/2024/10/25/yale-reports-investment-ret...

  > Yale’s investment strategy depends heavily on alternative investments. As of 2019, they made up about 60 percent of Yale’s portfolio.

  https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/10/24/yales-endowment-ex...

• by 0hijinks on 4/19/25, 12:30 AM

  As all eight Ivy Leagues collectively received this amount in funding in 2024, it would appear that Yale is planning for a longer-term drought.

  Aside, I tried to copy the title to search for context about this elsewhere:

  >> To be able to copy & paste content to share with others please contact us at subscriptions@pei.group to upgrade your subscription to the appropriate licence

  Well, that's... something. No ma'am, I don't think I will.

• by declan_roberts on 4/19/25, 12:19 AM

  Really that money should be going to any student from Yale with a student loan balance.

• by kennyadam on 4/19/25, 12:20 AM

  Friction-free viewing link: https://archive.ph/l8Zqz

• by iJohnDoe on 4/19/25, 1:57 AM

  I don’t know much about this stuff, so probably a silly question. Why the heck would Yale or Harvard need so much federal funding?

  For how much students pay and how many wealthy donors they have, why are tax payers funding Yale?

  This is probably one of the rare times I support a funding cut.

• by munchler on 4/19/25, 12:18 AM

  PE = private equity?

• by nsxwolf on 4/19/25, 12:19 AM

  Seems like they have enough money for anything.

• by arandomusername on 4/19/25, 12:18 AM

  Trump really does seem like an Israeli first president. Soon enough the only people his administration will be deporting are students critical of Israel