{"id":33207,"date":"2013-01-02T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33207"},"modified":"2013-01-02T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T15:47:27","slug":"buffett-is-still-crushing-that-bet-he-made-against-two-hedge-fund-managers-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2013\/buffett-is-still-crushing-that-bet-he-made-against-two-hedge-fund-managers-in-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Buffett Is Still Crushing That Bet He Made Against Two Hedge Fund Managers In 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Business Insider) It&#8217;s 2013, and that means that Warren Buffett is 5 years into a bet he made against two hedge fund managers at New York based fund Protege Partners.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2008, Buffett told Ted Seides and Jeffrey Tarrant of Protege that funds that invest in hedge funds for their clients would not beat the S&#038;P 500 over ten years. The loser of this bet has to donate $1 million to the winner&#8217;s charity of choice on December 31st, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Right at this very moment, Buffett is still winning. That may not be too surprising, since according to hedge fund tracker HFR, hedge funds returned an average of 5.5% in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/buffett-still-winning-hedge-fund-bet-2013-1#ixzz2GpkB5eDj\">Read Complete Article Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Business Insider) It&#8217;s 2013, and that means that Warren Buffett is 5 years into a bet he made against two hedge fund managers at New York based fund Protege Partners. Back in 2008, Buffett told Ted Seides and Jeffrey Tarrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33211,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207\/revisions\/33211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}