
Marion Halftermeyer
Reporter at Bloomberg News
Cover finance and investing topics for @business. Writing a book about Credit Suisse. Tips welcome: [email protected]. @columbiajourn @bostoncollege
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12 hours ago |
bloomberg.com | Allison McNeely |Dawn Lim |Preeti Singh |Marion Halftermeyer
The Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut. (Bloomberg) -- Yale University’s $41 billion endowment, led for decades by the late investing giant David Swensen, has been the envy – and the blueprint — for many US universities eager to secure their financial future. Swensen was the face of higher education’s embrace of private equity, illiquid investments held for the long term.
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12 hours ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Allison McNeely |Dawn Lim |Preeti Singh |Marion Halftermeyer
Yale University’s $41 billion endowment, led for decades by the late investing giant David Swensen, has been the envy – and the blueprint — for many US universities eager to secure their financial future. Swensen was the face of higher education’s embrace of private equity, illiquid investments held for the long term. His push beyond the traditional stocks and bonds portfolio was a major part of the endowment’s size doubling five times over. And where Swensen went, others followed.
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1 week ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Marion Halftermeyer |Martin Z. Braun
Blackstone Inc. agreed to buy $5 billion of private equity holdings from the New York City pension system, one of the largest sales of its kind. The transaction, which represented 450 individual commitments in 125 funds from 75 different managers, is for “portfolio strategic realignment” purposes, according to a statement from the New York City Comptroller’s office, not liquidity needs.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Marion Halftermeyer |Martin Z. Braun
Blackstone Inc. agreed to buy $5 billion of private equity holdings from the New York City pension system, one of the largest sales of its kind. The transaction, which represented 450 individual commitments in 125 funds from 75 different managers, is for “portfolio strategic realignment” purposes, according to a statement from the New York City Comptroller’s office, not liquidity needs.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Marion Halftermeyer |Martin Braun
Blackstone Inc. agreed to buy $5 billion of private equity holdings from the New York City pension system, one of the largest sales of its kind. The transaction, which represented 450 individual commitments in 125 funds from 75 different managers, is for “portfolio strategic realignment” purposes, according to a statement from the New York City Comptroller’s office, not liquidity needs. Blackstone declined to comment.
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