Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman's hedge fund, owns a 7.8% stake in the discount retailer.
Ackman, whose hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owned 17.8% of J.
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The investment world has been abuzz about the Herbalife standoff between hedge-fund titans Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, and Carl Icahn.
When Pershing Square Capital disclosed a 16.5% stake in J.
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William Ackman charges his investors rich fees for the privilege of parking their money at his Pershing Square Capital Management hedge funds.
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He's hardly alone in seeing unrealized value in CCA. Activist investor William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management is its largest shareholder with 9.4%.
His name was Bill Ackman, the hedge fund impresario who had, that very week, launched Pershing Square Capital Management 6, 500 miles away in Manhattan.
He will present his best investment idea for this year, as will fellow short-seller James Chanos of Kynikos Associates and activist William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, among others.
Private equity shop Warburg Pincus and William Ackman of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management have each earned a place among Wall Street's upper reaches by making smart investments.
He called members of the committee of directors making the selections, as well as big investors including William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, people familiar with the matter said.
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Some of the recent strength is being attributed to recent positive notes out of Deutsche Bank and Oppenheimer, as well as the unrelenting support of Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital.
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Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital is J.
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Along with the company's board of directors, he's rejected a plan pushed by private equity firm Pershing Square Capital to sell off some company-owned restaurants and distribute the proceeds to stockholders through dividends and share buybacks.
"I'm not a fan of sticking real-estate companies in a trust so you don't have to pay corporate tax, " said activist hedge fund investor William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital during a recent real-estate conference sponsored by New York University.
It was a clear shot at Pershing Square Capital, the New York hedge fund run by William Ackman, who released a letter to regulators Wednesday, along with a lode of data, to support his claim the bond insurers are headed for a swift demise.
Ambac shares have lost 90% of their value since January 2007 and William Ackman, a short-seller who runs the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, has railed against them (to his own benefit), saying the bond insurers could be insolvent by the second quarter because of their exposures to the structured finance market.
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