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In 2007 hedge fund manager Ted Seides accepted the challenge. Buffet chose a low-cost Vanguard S&P fund and Seides picked five funds-of-funds with interests in more than 200 hedge funds to go up against Buffett. The official amount for the bet was 1 million dollars.
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In a 2005 letter to the shareholders of his company wrote that active management professionals (hedge fund managers) not outperform individuals who used a passive (index) investing strategy over a ten-year period. To prove his sincerity in this belief he offered $500,000 (for charity) to anyone w...
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Buffett acknowledged a lesson learned from an interesting plot twist over the course of the bet.
· At the outset of the wager, Buffett and Seides bought about $300,000 worth U.S. Treasury bonds, widely considered a safe investment.
· The expectation was that the bonds wo...
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· "Bonds had become a dumb -- a really dumb -- investment compared to American equities" or stock, he said.
· So, in 2012, Buffett and Seides dumped their Treasury bonds and used the money to buy B-class shares of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB).
· By the end ...
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John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019) was an American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group, and is credited with creating the first index fund. An avid investor and money manager himself, he preached inve...
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