Like just about everyone else with exposure to Wall Street's woes, university endowments took a big hit during the economic downturn.

According to Bloomberg, Yale's endowment lost -25% during fiscal 2009. The value of the Harvard endowment dropped by -27.3% over that period.

As is the case at Harvard, Yale's endowment owns a variety of alternative investments, but it has also disclosed holdings in a handful of U.S.-listed equities. We recently took a look at Harvard's strategy and noted the prevalence of international-focused ETFs in its portfolio. Yale, meanwhile, appears to have scaled way back on its equity portfolio.

Looking at Yale's top U.S.-listed holdings at the end of Q3, the endowment's top positions ware in ETFs iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund (NYSE: EFA - News) and iShares S&P 100 Index (NYSE: OEF - News).

Besides the ETFs, Yale's end-of-Q3 portfolio included stocks like biotech Celgene (Nasdaq: CELG - News), natural gas firm Crosstex Energy (Nasdaq: XTXI - News), data center firm Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX - News), and big bank JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM - News).

Looking at tickerspy.com's graph charting the performance of the Yale's end-of-Q3 holdings so far in Q4, one can see that the holdings are ahead of the market. If you want to see how your performance stacks up to Yale's or see some of the other stocks it's invested in, visit tickerspy.com to see Yale's top holdings and a chart of their combined performance.

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