Seems like that might be close to 25% of their alt investments. This sounds rather serious.<p>> the endowment’s value increased to $41.4 billion on June 30, 2024, up from $40.7 billion on June 30, 2023<p><a href="https://news.yale.edu/2024/10/25/yale-reports-investment-return-fiscal-2024" rel="nofollow">https://news.yale.edu/2024/10/25/yale-reports-investment-ret...</a><p>> Yale’s investment strategy depends heavily on alternative investments. As of 2019, they made up about 60 percent of Yale’s portfolio.<p><a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/10/24/yales-endowment-explained/" rel="nofollow">https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/10/24/yales-endowment-ex...</a>
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.<p>Aside, I tried to copy the <i>title</i> to search for context about this elsewhere:<p>>> <i>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</i><p>Well, that's... something. No ma'am, I don't think I will.
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?<p>For how much students pay and how many wealthy donors they have, why are tax payers funding Yale?<p>This is probably one of the rare times I support a funding cut.
Trump really does seem like an Israeli first president. Soon enough the only people his administration will be deporting are students critical of Israel