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Bill Ackman

  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Private equity’s recruiting mania Premium content

    Plus, credit rating agencies get into a spat and DD readers respond to Bill Ackman’s latest push to build a conglomerate

    Commuters leave the Wall Street subway stop in New York City
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Can Bill Ackman create a Berkshire Hathaway rival?

    Hard-charging hedge fund boss faces steep hurdles in bid to emulate Warren Buffett

  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Bill Ackman’s uphill Berkshire climb Premium content

    Plus, CATL sells shares to fuel global expansion and DHL teams up with Evri

    Bill Ackman
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    Can Bill Ackman create a ‘modern-day’ Berkshire Hathaway?

    Hard-charging hedge fund boss faces steep hurdles in bid to emulate Warren Buffett

    A montage of Bill Ackman with the logo of the Howard Hughes portfolio, the Ward Village planned community in Hawaii and the planned mixed-use development Summerlin Las Vegas
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    LexUS companies
    Ackman pushes the envelope on creative executive pay Premium content

    Billionaire financier’s bid to emulate the Oracle of Omaha comes with some quirks

    Bill Ackman, chief executive officer and portfolio manager at Pershing Square Capital Management
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Ackman completes quest to launch Berkshire Hathaway lookalike

    Financier assumes effective control of Howard Hughes and will shift its strategy to hunt for acquisitions

    Bill Ackman
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Bill Ackman’s main fund drops 15% this year as trade war hits holdings

    Billionaire’s Pershing Square Holdings bet on tariff-exposed stocks like Nike

    Bill Ackman
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    LexTennis
    Bill Ackman and Novak Djokovic show Big Tennis no love Premium content

    The pair argue that players are being short-changed by the game’s power brokers

    Novak Djokovic
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Ackman takes $2.3bn stake in Uber

    Ride-hailing group is ‘one of the best managed and highest quality businesses in the world’, activist investor says

    Person driving car while holding a phone with the Uber app displayed on it
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    UnitedHealth refers Bill Ackman’s social post to US securities watchdog

    Hedge fund manager suggested healthcare group could be inflating its profits

    Bill Ackman
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    LexMergers & Acquisitions
    Buffett-chasing tycoons will need to prove their own mythology Premium content

    Public markets today rarely offer bargains — the Oracle of Omaha built his edifice some 60 years ago

    Bill Ackman, chief executive and portfolio manager at Pershing Square
  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Bill Ackman’s Berkshire Hathaway fever dream Premium content

    Plus, the big hopes hanging on the UK’s IPO market this year and Jefferies lands a mega healthcare deal

    Bill Ackman
  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Bill Ackman says he wants to build a ‘modern-day Berkshire Hathaway’

    Investor is seeking control of US real estate company in push to transform his hedge fund into a diversified financial group

    Bill Ackman giving a speech
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Daily Telegraph
    New York Sun’s Efune is leading bidder for Telegraph

    Bill Ackman sounded out but decided not to participate in auction for British broadsheet

    A man reads a copy of the Daily Telegraph
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    LexPershing Square Capital Management LP
    Bill Ackman must find a sweet spot to tempt both early and later investors Premium content

    Balance is needed on incentives to ensure Pershing Square USA fund does not struggle after floating

    Pershing Square Capital Management chief Bill Ackman being interviewed in November 2023
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Bill Ackman gears up for an IPO comeback Premium content

    Plus, Arizona iced tea takes on investment bank Evercore in court and arrest of Telegram founder churns up financial troubles

    Bill Ackman
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Bill Ackman seeks to revive IPO with sweeteners for investors

    US fund relaunch could include right to buy extra shares or stock in billionaire’s hedge fund

    Bill Ackman being interviewed
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Pershing Square Capital Management LP
    Ackman’s Pershing Square weighs deal to take property group private

    Fund eyes real estate company Howard Hughes after recent attempt to take US entity public came to abrupt halt

    Bill Ackman
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    FT Asset Management
    Bill Ackman’s grand vision unravels

    Plus, cash piles up, investing in classic cars, and school’s out for summer

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    How Bill Ackman’s $25bn IPO dream unravelled

    What started as a characteristically bold scheme came crashing down after a startling series of setbacks

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    FT AlphavilleCraig Coben
    Ackman’s quixotic IPO is over – for now

    Ack-man of La Mancha

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Bill Ackman wanted $25bn. He got zero Premium content

    Plus, Ares raises a record private credit fund and Rio Tinto stays out of the mining dealmaking frenzy

    Bill Ackman
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Ackman abruptly withdraws IPO of Pershing Square US fund

    Decision follows vastly lowered target and delay in pricing

    Bill Ackman
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    IPOs
    The IPO window is open! (For some)

    “Well-positioned businesses are pricing their IPOs above price talk and are trading well in the aftermarket”

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    US companies
    Seth Klarman’s weird Pershing flirtation

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