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From 1985 to 2021, Yale’s endowment achieved an annualised return of 13.7 per cent, growing from US$1 billion to over US$40 billion after making withdrawals for the endowment’s liabilities.
To give a sense of this 36-year achievement and the power of compounding, a good annualised return of 8 per cent – global public equities’ historical return over longer time frames – would have compounded your money by 16 times.
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