Yale's David Swensen and His Alums Are Among Best-Paid Endowment Heads
- Princeton’s Golden earned $4.3 million, ranking fourth
- David Swensen’s fund has outperformed over three decades
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It pays to have worked at Yale University’s investment office.
David Swensen, the chief investment officer at Yale, and people who worked for him early in their careers, were among the highest-paid endowment chiefs in 2017, according to preliminary data collected by Bloomberg. They took five of the top 10 spots in our ranking.