Tag Archives: Bill Ackman
Bill Ackman and the State of Activist Investing, Part II
Despite a series of ongoing challenges, a variety of environmental effects have recently swung in the activists’ favor. First, as mentioned in my previous blog post, stock prices have taken a tremendous hit over the past year. Yet while the news media tend to tout the market’s recent resurgence, in reality the S&P 500 still remains more than 25% below […]
Bill Ackman-Style Investing: Know that you can’t know the unknowable
The 3Q08 Pershing Square letter, written by portfolio manager Bill Ackman, is a great example of the salient decision making that good fundamental managers employ. They strive to eliminate unanswerable questions as not to distract the firm from their ultimate goal; profiting from fundamental research. “We spend little time trying to outguess market prognosticators about the short-term future of the […]