Published on 08/14/2024 at 04:32 pm EDT
NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Billionaire investor William Ackman built new stakes in sportswear company Nike and investment management company Brookfield, during the second quarter, according to a regulatory filing made on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss)
William (Bill) Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, an American hedge fund that holds shares in Wendy’s International and McDonald’s Corporation. As well it has interest in Target Corp., the second largest discount company in US.
Graduated at Harvard College, he holds also an MBA from Harvard Business School. He began his career working for his father in the real estate, and in 1993 he founded Gotham Partners Management Co. This investment company encounters some troubles including legal problems that will lead to its dissolution in 2003.
In 2004, William Ackman comes back on the financial stage. He has created Pershing Square Capital, and he showed a lot of activism buying massive share in the lowest price for resale in two years maximum. A short-term strategy often criticized by the US Medias. His different attacks against FSA, American division of Dexia, and also against MBIA and Ambac, that it forecast the collapse, earned him a strong enmity in financial world.
In 2007, William Ackman took a share up to 5 millions of dollar (3,5%) in Sears Holdings, third group in distribution sector in US, behind Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
Pershing Square Capital Management manages approximately 2.4 billion of dollar of which 40% was invested in shares of McDonald.
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Pershing Square Capital Management LP
 Pershing Square Capital Management LP Investment ManagersFinance PSCM is a concentrated, research-intensive, fundamental value investor in the public markets. The firm generally focuses on high-quality businesses, which they believe has limited downside and that generate predictable, recurring cash flow, and in certain cases seeks to catalyze managerial, operating and governance changes as levers to create substantial, enduring and long-term shareholder value. PSCM aims to manage risks through careful investment selection and portfolio construction, engaging in typically only one to three new core investments each year. PSCM is an activist firm and is included in the SharkWatch50 as one of the 50 most prominent and impactful activist investors. | Chief Executive Officer |
Pershing Square Foundation | Founder |
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