Stanford’s Investments Beat Harvard, Yale With 14% Increase
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Stanford University, the third-richest U.S. college, said its investments rose 14.4 percent in the year ended June 30, beating returns at Harvard and Yale universities on gains in credit investments and stocks.
The increase, along with gifts from donors and distributions to the university, led a 9.6 percent climb in the endowment to $13.8 billion in the year ended Aug. 31, the school near Palo Alto, California, said today in an e-mailed statement.