{"id":58317,"date":"2017-06-05T09:12:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T13:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58317"},"modified":"2017-06-05T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T13:12:24","slug":"bill-ackman-on-the-industry-valeant-and-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/bill-ackman-on-the-industry-valeant-and-retail.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ackman On The Industry, Valeant And Retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvest) Bill Ackman, the founder of the well-known Pershing Square Capital hedge fund, is making a comeback, or so he hopes. He spoke at this year\u2019s SALT conference, which also had Dan Loeb and Joe Biden as highlighted speakers. Ackman claims to have \u201csomething to prove\u201d after his fund was down more than 30% at one point. Notably, Ackman is referring to having something to prove after his Valeant Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: VRX) blunder. He notes that selling Valeant was one of the best things he\u2019s done. Ackman notes that he failed on the judgment of Valeant\u2019s management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvst.com\/posts\/91139-bill-ackman-on-the-industry-valeant-and-retail\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvest) Bill Ackman, the founder of the well-known Pershing Square Capital hedge fund, is making a comeback, or so he hopes. He spoke at this year\u2019s SALT conference, which also had Dan Loeb and Joe Biden as highlighted speakers. Ackman [&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-58317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58317","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=58317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58318,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58317\/revisions\/58318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}