{"id":53732,"date":"2016-08-02T06:56:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53732"},"modified":"2016-08-02T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:56:07","slug":"ackmans-pershing-square-gains-2-7-in-july-ytd-loss-cut-to-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/ackmans-pershing-square-gains-2-7-in-july-ytd-loss-cut-to-19.html","title":{"rendered":"Ackman&#8217;s Pershing Square Gains 2.7% in July; YTD Loss Cut to -19%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(FINalternatives) Bill Ackman\u2019s Pershing Square Holdings, the public version of his Pershing Square LP hedge fund, posted a net return of 2.7% in July, trimming its year-to-date net loss to -19%, according to a performance update released by the firm.<\/p>\n<p>The fund\u2019s portfolio continues to consist of 11 long positions and one short position, Ackman\u2019s long-suffering bet against Herbalife. In July, the company agreed to pay $200 million to settle an action brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission regarding its sales and compensation practices. Herbalife\u2019s stock, frequently alleged by Ackman to be a pyramid scheme, rose on the news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finalternatives.com\/node\/33548\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(FINalternatives) Bill Ackman\u2019s Pershing Square Holdings, the public version of his Pershing Square LP hedge fund, posted a net return of 2.7% in July, trimming its year-to-date net loss to -19%, according to a performance update released by the firm. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53732","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53733,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53732\/revisions\/53733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}