How Harvard and Yale Beat the Market: What Individual Investors Can Learn From the Investment Strategies of the Most Successful University Endowments

How Harvard and Yale Beat the Market explores the benefits of endowment investing and shows you how to structure your individual investment endeavors around an endowment-type portfolio. While the average investor doesn’t have access to many of the money managers and vehicles that high-profile endowments use, you can still learn from the investment strategies outlined here and implement them in your own investment activities. Filled with timely tips and practical advice from an expert who designs portfolios based on endowment investment strategies, How Harvard and Yale Beat the Market will put you in a better position to achieve investment success.

How Harvard and Yale Beat the Market will provide you with the tools you need to make sure your savings are there when you need it. This book will tell you why it is important for you to invest like the endowments do and how the current financial environment will actually enable you to make substantial profits. Part I of the book will talk about the mistakes investors make and why large endowments outperform. Part II will give an introduction to the different investment vehicles investors can use that will allow you to create an endowment type of investment portfolio. Part III will talk in depth about the different asset classes you may want to consider for your portfolio. Part IV will then take what you have learned and show you how to apply it when designing your own portfolio.  The large endowments like Harvard and Yale have revolutionized the investment landscape. How Harvard and Yale Beat the Market will give you the tools you need to create portfolios like the large endowments do.