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Bill Ackman and the Current State of Activist Hedge Funds, Part I

Bill Ackman, the forty-three-year-old founder of hedge fund firm, Pershing Square Capital Management, has had a rough go of late. Readers may recall that in 2007 he raised $2 billion from private investors in order to start a new hedge fund, Pershing Square IV.   Employing a highly-leveraged mix of common stock and call options,  Ackman invested the proceeds in […]