William Ackman

William Ackman, Director at Howard Hughes (NYSE:HHC), made a large insider buy on September 3, according to a new SEC filing. What Happened: A Form 4 filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday showed that Ackman purchased 150,156 shares of Howard Hughes at a price of $92.0...

William Ackman, Director at Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG), made a large insider buy on September 7, according to a new SEC filing. What Happened: A Form 4 filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday showed that Ackman purchased 41,208 shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill at a...

Airbnb Inc, the online platform for vacation rental bookings, is planning to undergo an initial public offering in December, according to Reuters. What Happened: Airbnb submitted the IPO documents confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in August and plans to make the...

Major activist hedge funds have formed a lobbying group called Council for Investor Rights and Corporate Accountability (CIRCA) to promote shareholder activism across the country. The announcement comes as presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been voicing against activist...

Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, acquired a $3.3 billion stake in Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE: VRX), a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. With this stake, the fund holds about 5 percent of the company's shares...

William A. Ackman, activist investor and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, released a letter earlier Friday advising the board of directors of Allergan on how best to maximize shareholder value and optimal strategies when considering the merger. Some Key Takeaways: 1. Now that the...

Four pharmaceutical companies have been flirting with merger deals. Discussing the confusing courting, Barron’s called them the Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice of pharmaceuticals, referencing the sexy 1969 comedy-drama with the tag line “Consider the Possibilities.” In...

This weekend in Barron's online: the Penta Quarterly and a profile of Barry Rosenstein, as well as the prospects for Avon Products, TD Ameritrade, Pitney Bowes and more. Cover Story "Jana Partners' Rosenstein" by Lawrence C. Strauss. How Barry Rosenstein rose from an Asher Edelman underling to...

The Ira Sohn Conference taking place this week in New York is an annual gathering of premiere hedge fund managers that raises money for cancer research. The all-star list of big-league investors includes David Einhorn, William Ackman, Jeffrey Gundlach and several other notable names.  Each...

Who would have guessed all it would take was a phone call? Following a 30-minute phone conversation last week, one of Wall Street’s longest running feuds between activist investors Carl Icahn and William Ackman ended according to The Wall Street Journal. Ackman told Icahn’s assistant on April...

The war of words was rekindled Thursday between activist investor, William Ackman, and the J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) board of directors, with the board returning fire after Ackman made public a letter in which he urged the board to act quickly to replace interim CEO Myron “Mike” Ullman. In a...