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    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Hedge funds
      Investor Boaz Weinstein leading rival bid for hedge fund Sculptor

      Saba Capital founder is working with Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman and Marc Lasry of Avenue Capital Group

      Boaz Weinstein
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      Why Wall Street is trying to shake up the 2024 race

      American investors fear a Biden-Trump rematch, but history may beat chatter when it comes to a third-party candidate

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of an animal, with the top half represented by the Democratic donkey and the bottom half by the Republican elephant
    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Bill Ackman takes stake in Bremont after buying its watches

      Billionaire investor’s backing values luxury UK brand at more than £100mn

      Bill Ackman speaks in a television interview
    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Hedge funds
      Barclays: the pegging will continue

      Pershing Square, round hole?

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Due Diligence
      Private equity’s ‘technicolour dreamcoat’ Premium content

      Plus, Asia’s richest man sets out his media ambitions, and Bill Ackman shorts the Hong Kong dollar

      Due Diligence logo
    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Currencies
      Bill Ackman, macro tourist, is back

      Short peg in a long-term hole

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Bill Ackman reveals short position against Hong Kong dollar

      Billionaire says ‘peg no longer makes sense’ and ‘only a matter of time’ before it breaks

      Picture of billionaire Bill Ackman
    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      LexSpecial purpose acquisition companies
      Bill Ackman: Spac failure leads to Sparc innovation Premium content

      Investors will give him cash for a deal only after he has picked out a target company

      Bill Ackman pitched PSTH as a unique Spac better aligned to the interests of ordinary investors
    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Bill Ackman winds down $4bn Spac after failing to find a target

      Funds from record-breaking vehicle returned to investors as appetite for blank-cheque companies withers

      Bill Ackman
    • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
      Netflix Inc
      Bill Ackman sells entire Netflix stake at roughly $400mn loss

      Move comes three months after billionaire took position with pledge to focus on ‘long-term horizon’

      Bill Ackman
    • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
      US & Canadian companies
      Bill Ackman cancels Netflix

      What a difference one quarter can make

    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      News in-depthInvestor activism
      Why some of the most feared activist investors are no longer so hostile

      Prominent veterans of Wall St proxy battles are taking a more low-key approach

      Bill Ackman at an event
    • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
      Due Diligence
      Ackman says he’s retiring from activist campaigns Premium content

      Plus, the FT traces the ownership of a mysterious yacht in Antigua and Goldman Sachs looks to diversify its business portfolio

      Due diligence logo
    • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
      Bill Ackman to abandon public battles for quieter investment approach

      Founder of activist hedge fund Pershing Square intends to work behind the scenes with companies

      Bill Ackman
    • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      This is nuts, there’s too much Spac-cash

      So why not park some there? Go on, live a little.

    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      Lex
      Ackman/Netflix: pandemic’s canny trader says growth darling now a value play Premium content

      At a low enough purchase price, hedge fund manager can afford to wait for streamer’s own subscriber growth to resume

      Bill Ackman pictured in 2017
    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      Bill Ackman buys Netflix stake worth $1.1bn after stock sell-off

      Hedge fund manager suggests other investors are ignoring long-term potential of streaming group

      Bill Ackman speaks at a conference
    • Wednesday, 10 November, 2021
      Property sector
      Bill Ackman tries to win neighbours’ support for divisive glass penthouse

      Hedge fund manager must convince board of prewar New York building to back modernist addition

      Bill Ackman wants to demolish the penthouse atop a 1927 building and erect two modernist glass boxes, shown here in a rendering, designed by architect Norman Foster
    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      Special purpose acquisition companies
      Wall Street law firms band together to defend Spac business

      Deal advisers rebut claims that blank-cheque groups are investment companies in disguise

      The New York Stock Exchange
    • Friday, 20 August, 2021
      LexPershing Square Tontine Holdings
      Pershing Square: Bill Ackman bets on Spac 2.0 Premium content

      New structure would remove existing time limits and stop investors’ cash being prematurely tied up

      Bill Ackman
    • Friday, 20 August, 2021
      Bill Ackman to return $4bn to Spac investors if new vehicle is approved

      Billionaire investor plans to pivot to new ‘Sparc’ model following lawsuit

      Bill Ackman
    • Sunday, 25 July, 2021
      LexInvestments
      Tontines: not such a murderous idea Premium content

      With people living longer and pension schemes underfunded, resurrecting them for the 21st century has a certain appeal

      A still photo from TV show ‘The Simpsons’
    • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
      Due Diligence
      Bill Ackman’s Universal vision runs into regulatory problems Premium content

      Plus, an Italian luxury dynasty embraces the Spac trend, and DD’s top takeaways from bank earnings season so far

    • Monday, 19 July, 2021
      Lex
      Pershing/UMG: Dance to the music of time Premium content

      Bill Ackman’s deal to acquire a stake in the resurgent music company lives on through his hedge fund

      Lady Gaga
    • Monday, 19 July, 2021
      Universal Music Group
      Bill Ackman abandons Spac plan to take $4bn stake in Universal Music

      Hedge fund manager changes course to buy into world’s biggest music label after SEC intervention

      Bill Ackman
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