In all, staff and non-salary spending will be cut back by 12.5 percent, according to President Richard Levin and Provost Peter Salovey in a recently released statement. Yale’s endowment shrunk 30 percent to around $16 billion in June, $1 billion less than the university expected and planned around being able to spend.

According to Yale’s statement, its public investments were not the problem; rather, its real estate and private investments have mostly contributed to Yale’s 25 percent loss in investment value. Because of this, Yale’s investments have not recovered significantly with the recovery of the stock market, its private investments instead remaining relatively weak.

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Yale to Cut Spending Annually Until 2014

Don’t try anything fancy. Stick to a simple diversified portfolio, keep your costs down and rebalance periodically to keep your asset allocations in line with your long-term goals.

Swensen, by the way, is not some CNBC guru or Wall Street hotshot. He manages Yale University’s endowment.

In other news, a major West Coast enterprise led its peers by attracting an astounding $832 million in capital last year. Thats not revenue from its consumers. It’s not even investment money. That funding came from gifts.

That enterprise would be Stanford University, which”raised the most money among academic institutions for the third year in a row,” reported Bloomberg today.

No big messages here, just a gentle reminder that an organization need not turn a profit to be big business.

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