It is my humble and biased opinion that the true innate talents have little to do, if nothing to do, with a person’s age. I could argue with people who'd think differently and believe that attributes of talent/special abilities simply contribute to environmental influences or intensive training: simply put,  the excellence comes from the accumulations of experiences from time -  the aging process.  Granted, giftedness or innate talents are defined in wide ranges throughout time and spaces, yet time to time I notice many young individuals, especially in in art and music fields often demonstrate brilliant competence resulted in the strong evidence of presence of natural aptitudes.  So it would be safe to say that those young talented  people who have some natural high aptitudes can learn faster, deeper and wider than their peers, therefore they tend to excel in their youth.

Maybe this is unrelated above, even in the field that is demanding and stressful sector where I work, it’s not uncommon to see  many young guys in their 20s and 30s show  the exceptional insights pertaining to market sentiments and industry potentials well before the trends take shapes. Next time if you hear those old "experts"  running around and spreading the rumors on popular talk-shows or in PBS programs by saying that 2008 fanatical melt-down was caused by the creative products incepted by some unexperienced young guys, please don’t buy their arguments.  The real truth is that those old dudes were equally guilty as the young ones, possibly even more. Don’t forget, they were the ones who had hailed those products as the “pure innovations and breakthrough” back then.

Speaking of experiences,  the fact is , if stripped off the old money  from the funds before the melt-down,  chances are, the return on the funds  that those oldguys are managing  may fare far poorer than that  younger generation FMs when the ROIs are compared  in real dollar and cents after someday the recession in the view of the rear mirror.

It’s true that experiences indeed help, but it's possible that  there could be something which is  born with, one either has it or doesn't, period.