I see every day how competitive the markets are, and how tough. So the idea that you can do this yourself, that's out the window.
David Swensen
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Without Jim's mentorship, there's no way I would have completed my Ph.D. Here,.. It was fair to say that I lacked direction, so Jim kind of took me under his wing.
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I enjoyed my time on Wall Street, I learned a lot, and I still have a lot of friends there, but I never saw myself there long term, because when I looked at the senior guys there, that wasn't the kind of life I wanted for myself,.. Here, I'm supporting one of the world's great institutions.
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I think what the people at GESO are doing is antithetical to everything that Yale stands for,.. They're just slinging mud.
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I wouldn't say that I have faith in hedge funds per se, but I have reasonable faith in our ability to discriminately select high-quality partners,.. You're seeing a lot of hedge fund problems now because there's such mindless enthusiasm on the part of the public. A lot of the entrants are low-quality, and you've got a lot of people crashing around doing dumb things.
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