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Bill Ackman Says No More Buybacks


Pershing Square’s big comeback offers a lesson on the drawbacks of share repurchases.

Share buybacks are a common rallying cry of activist investors, but Bill Ackman’s latest annual letter to the shareholders of his publicly traded hedge fund, Pershing Square Holdings, shows how wrongheaded they can be.Over the past few years, Ackman has done everything he can to boost the flagging share price

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