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by BenOfTomorrow 5268 days ago
Actually, the top comment in your link points out that Buffett has been LOSING the bet since its inception.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/26/the-warren-buffett...

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Hedge funds across the board lost more money since that post came out. Its hard to tell exact performance on the bet though since they don't disclose exactly which hedge funds are in the basket being evaluated for the bet.

To give a sense of how bad it's been, one of the top hedge funds, led by John Paulson who made a few billion dollars by betting contrarian during the subprime crisis, lost 52% in one of his funds this year.

Some more recent data:

http://www.economist.com/node/21526326

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/misery-continues-complete-nove...