Kevin Elliott

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823 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Better With Money · ‘The best performing stock market was Colombia last year’: Picking an index fund as an Irish investor · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think we'll get back to that in a moment because it's another key factor.

But a second thing is over time,

If we look again, look at historical data, passive investing has proven to outperform active management.

By active management, I mean that you're paying a fund manager or a hedge fund manager to manage your money on your behalf.

I'll give you a little analogy for that briefly.

So Warren Buffett, I think many people would have heard of Warren Buffett, one of the most famous investors of all time.

He runs Berkshire Hathaway or had done, he's recently retired.

So back at the peak of the market in 2007, he was invited to a charity fundraiser and he was in the room and he was with hedge fund managers and fund managers.

And he asked if anybody was willing to bet him that a low-cost index fund would beat any fund manager over a 10-year period.

And one individual put their hand up.

And his name escapes me, but the fund he ran was Prodigy Partners.

So they both put up $500,000.

Warren Buffett was going to invest in S&P 500, Prodigy Partners.

So we're going to put together a syndicate of different funds, right?

So different actively managed funds.

And over the 10-year period...

The compounded annual growth rates year on year, the index fund was up 7.2% and the actively managed fund was 2.2%.

Oh, wow.

Huge difference.

Now, that is not, you know, we must, with some kind of context, look at the timeframe.

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