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by robrenaud 3769 days ago
Warren Buffet made a similar bet 8 years ago on a 10 year horizon, betting on Vanguard against some top hedge funds.

Buffett is very likely to win that bet.

http://fortune.com/2015/02/03/berkshires-buffett-adds-to-his...

http://longbets.org/362/

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This is interesting! Shoddy writing int he Fortune piece though.

"The amount handed over [to charity], though, is not likely to be $1 million, because of changes that Buffett and Protégé made in the wager a couple of years ago"

One paragraph later:

"Buffett also issued a guarantee: He will pay the winning charity $1 million if the Berkshire stock bought isn’t worth that much at the bet’s end."

Nitpicky I know, but it sounds like the winning charity is guaranteed $1 million.

Read a few more lines down and they state that the amount will most likely be more than $1 million, thus keeping the previous two quotes consistent.