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'Marketplace' Report: Yale Outsmarts the Market

The list of the top-performing college endowments came out Thursday. Yale University's endowment has beaten the S&P 500's performance for the last five years. Marketplace's Steve Tripoli talks to Alex Cohen about how college endowments work and how schools like Yale manage to beat the market year after year.

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