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Can Bill Ackman Still Turn 2022 Around?

Pershing Square notched an 8 percent return in November.
By Michelle Celarier
December 02, 2022
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Ackman’s Pershing Square Jumped 10% in October

The hedge fund cut its 2022 losses by 40 percent last month.
By Michelle Celarier
November 02, 2022
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Pershing Square Ups Family Dollar Stake

Pershing Square Capital Management has acquired about 5 million shares in Family Dollar Stores to become its largest shareholder.

June 09, 2011
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These Are the Most Popular Hedge Fund Stocks

A new company tops SEI Novus’s exhaustive ranking of the 15 stocks with the most hedge fund managers.
By Stephen Taub
August 24, 2022
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Pershing Square Capital Management

Pershing Square Capital Management's founder and CEO William Ackman is notorious for his headline-making activist investments. In 2002 he released a report as co-head of Gotham Partners challenging the credibility of Armonk, NY-based Municipal Bond Insurance Association's (MBIA) triple-A rating, ultimately taking a large short position through credit default swaps against MBIA corporate debt. When MBIA crashed in 2008, Ackman made $1 billion for Pershing Square's investors. Getting there was painful: It took five years for him to be proven right, and his controversial bet cost him investors and even landed him in the crosshairs of then-New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer...

May 26, 2015
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Pershing Square Buys 12.2% CP Rail Stake

Pershing Square Capital Management, the New York–based $10 billion hedge fund managed by William Ackman, has acquired a 12.2 percent stake in Canadian Pacific Railway.

October 31, 2011
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