{"id":30278,"date":"2012-07-23T07:26:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30278"},"modified":"2012-07-23T07:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:26:35","slug":"ackman-protege-ferguson-to-leave-pershing-to-start-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/ackman-protege-ferguson-to-leave-pershing-to-start-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Ackman Protege Ferguson To Leave Pershing To Start Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/bill-ackman\/\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Bill Ackman<\/a>, the hedge-fund manager who is pressing for changes at Procter &amp; Gamble Co., is losing the first analyst he hired for his Pershing Square Capital Management LP, according to a letter to investors.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Ferguson, now a partner at Pershing Square, will leave by the end of the month to start a hedge fund that will use an activist strategy similar to Ackman\u2019s, the letter said. The fund, which will conduct value-oriented research and push for changes at companies, plans to open next year, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information isn\u2019t public.u<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-07-23\/ackman-protege-ferguson-to-leave-pershing-to-start-fund.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund manager who is pressing for changes at Procter &amp; Gamble Co., is losing the first analyst he hired for his Pershing Square Capital Management LP, according to a letter to investors. Scott Ferguson, now a partner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30280,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278\/revisions\/30280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}