Warren Buffett Won His 10-Year Bet Against Hedge Funds. Here's What the S&P 500 Has Done Since It Ended.

Warren Buffett Won His 10-Year Bet Against Hedge Funds. Here's What the S&P 500 Has Done Since It Ended.

Did the fund that beat the hedge funds keep that up after the bet was over?

Warren Buffett Won His 10-Year Bet Against Hedge Funds. Here's What the S&P 500 Has Done Since It Ended

On Dec. 19, 2007, Warren Buffett bet that a low-cost index fund built to track the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) would beat a hand-picked set of hedge funds over the 10 years from the start of 2008 to the end of 2017. It wasn't close. The index fund returned 125.8% in the decade, or around 8.5% a year.…