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Andy Serwer

New York

Editor at Large at Barron's

Editor at Large, Barron's. Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. West coast jazz. East coast rap.

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  • 1 week ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer |Abby Schultz

    University Endowments Are Breaking Up With Private Equity. It’s Hard to Do.It once seemed like the perfect investment—offering better returns than stocks with less risk. Lately, though, private equity has become an albatross. Legendary Yale University endowment head David Swensen loved to riff on Benjamin Franklin’s line about life’s only certainties being death and taxes.

  • 2 weeks ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

    To scholastic purists, business leaders and big donors intruding into the ivy-covered, ivory tower of academia is a modern-day outrage—but the mixing of commercial interests and universities is nothing new. The fact that institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Rice, and Stanford were named after their wealthy benefactors just begins to get at the depth and breadth of those relationships.

  • 3 weeks ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

    Cameron Bready knows he needs to deliver.

  • 3 weeks ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

    Billy Hult wants to make trading bonds as easy as buying 100 shares of Nvidia —and as CEO of Tradeweb , a giant bond-trading platform company, he gets to work on that every day.

  • 4 weeks ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

    May has started off as a momentous month, with milestones—expected or otherwise—coming and going nearly every day. Refreshingly, many of these occurrences aren’t coming out of Washington. (Sorry, Elon.) Instead, these are narratives tied to larger-than-life, iconoclastic business leaders who’ve made their careers out of upsetting the status quo, going their own way—and even helping out the little guy.

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8 May 25

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3 May 25

RT @barronsonline: Warren Buffet Is Stepping Down From Berkshire Hathaway After 60 Years. Plus, 4 Other Takeaways You May Have Missed. http…

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3 May 25

Average CEO pay is now $25 million. Tariff that! My Saturday story, (along with co-author Abby Schultz.) Thanks @rhsabat @equilarinc The Highest-Paid CEO in America Is Someone You’ve Probably Never Heard Of https://t.co/DRRIBmvEuo via @BarronsOnline