An article in The Sydney Morning Herald offers a profile on Australian hedge fund manager and “fraud-hunting short seller” John Hempton, a self-described eccentric who, while known mostly for his…
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Bill Ackman Seeing Rapid Investor Redemptions
After three years of poor performance, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management LP is losing investors at a clip and, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal,…
Ackman Efforts to Boost Pershing Share Price May Not Work
Since May, Bill Ackman’s hedge fund has bought back more than 2.8 million shares of the publicly-traded version of its investment fund, according to a recent Bloomberg article, “essentially taking…
Ackman's Argues the Ill Effect of Index Funds on the Market
Barron’s reports on Pershing Square Capital manager Bill Ackman’s latest letter to shareholders, in which he sharply criticizes index funds. Ackman suggests that index funds are making the U.S like…