Warren Buffett formally wins his guess that the S&P 500 index fund would beat chosen hedge funds during the last 10 years. Fortune reported:

In 2007, Warren Buffett guess one million {dollars} that an index fund would outperform a set of hedge funds over the course of 10 years. This week he received that guess, however the huge winner within the wager is a charity known as Women Inc.

When he positioned the guess a decade in the past Buffett stated he would hand over any proceeds from the victory to charity. The charity he selected was his native Women Inc. affiliate, The Wall Road Journal experiences. The charity gives after-school care in addition to summer time applications for ladies ages 5 to 18.

Buffett formally “received” the wager on Friday, however stated all through 2017 that he was assured that he would win. Over the course of the guess the S&P 500 index fund returned 7.1% compounded yearly, considerably greater than the basket of funds chosen by an asset supervisor at Protégé Companions. That basket solely returned a median of two.2%.