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Re:Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would out... by cma on Sunday September 17, 2017 @07:14PM (#15272234)
The type of strategy they employed isn't something small time investors could. It was a complex option scheme essentially buying options on their own short term trading.
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Re:Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would out... by dsacco on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:48AM (#15275349)
While what you're saying is true, in fairness there are two caveats:

1. Virtually all profitable strategies run by hedge funds are inaccessible to small time investors nearly by definition, because they have more capital and lower capacity constraints,

2. The partnership you're talking about with Deutsche Bank doesn't account for most of their returns, and was only in effect in the last decade, not decades before.

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