Thanks to George Soros. 

Not Bill Ackman's day.

Ring the alarm y'all.

His short isn't working out so well.

From last year's Delivering Alpha.

Ack. It's been a rough year.

His big short. 

From the Sohn Investment Conference

Here we go. 

The winners of the Pershing Square Challenge.

Stand by your department store.

The board won't listen to him anymore. 

Up 6 per cent.

[credit provider=”Reuters/ Lucas Jackson”] Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman recently did a Q&A  “Value Investor Insight”, a newsletter run by Whitney Tilson and John Heins.Advisor Perspectives has an excerpt.

[credit provider=”Business Insider source”] The National Consumers League wants the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation on Herbalife.”Herbalife’s business practices have recently come under intense investor scrutiny, and NCL is now calling on federal regulators to examine both the claims lodged against Herbalife and Herbalife’s responses,” wrote the NCL […]

[credit provider=”Getty Images Entertainment/ Stephen Lovekin/Staff”] Struggling retailer JCPenney’s stock hit a new 52-week low today. The stock was last trading down more than 3% early in the session at $14.51 a share.

[credit provider=”VF”] We’ve read a copy of tomorrow’s Vanity Fair profile on billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management — and you’re definitely going to want to check it out.William Cohan’s profile is packed with juicy tidbits about the relationships between the players in […]

[credit provider=”Julia La Roche for Business Insider”] Nutritional and weightloss supplement seller Herbalife just beat fourth-quarter earnings estimates and raised its sales guidance.Herbalife posted $1.05 EPS. Sales came in at $1.1 billion, according to the earnings release.

[credit provider=”Getty Images Entertainment/ Stephen Lovekin/Staff”] Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, who has been in the spotlight for his Herbalife short, is answering investor questions live at the Harbor Investment Conference at JPMorgan Chase right now. Ackman’s $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management is shorting more than 20 million shares of […]

Activist investor Bill Ackman, who is shorting $1 billion worth of Herbalife stock, has just released 38 pages of 284 questions for the company.

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, the founder of $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, has just released 38 pages of questions for Herbalife. There are 284 questions in total.

[credit provider=”Julia La Roche for Business Insider”] Through a FOIA request, New York Post’s Michelle Celarier has obtained 192 complaints about Herbalife filed with the Federal Trade Commission over the last seven years. According to the Post’s report, the FTC is probing the multi-level marketing company that sells nutrition products.

[credit provider=”Getty Images Entertainment/ Stephen Lovekin/Staff”] Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, who has been in the spotlight lately for his big Herbalife short, is putting on a hedge fund conference in the coming weeks.On February 13, Ackman, the CEO of $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, and Mark Axelowitz, managing director from UBS […]

[credit provider=”Getty Images Entertainment/ Stephen Lovekin/Staff”] Last month, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square, attacked Herbalife, the multi-level marketing firm that sells nutrition products.Now the company appears to be stepping up its defence and preparing a counter-attack.

Shares of Herbalife, which has been one of the most controversial stocks lately, have fallen below the pre-Ackman short levels. 

Activist investor Bill Ackman and billionaire investor Carl Icahn just squared off in the best moment in financial television on CNBC’s “Half Time Report”.

[credit provider=”CNBC screengrab”] Activist investor Bill Ackman, the founder of $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, and billionaire investor Carl Icahn brawled moments ago on CNBC’s “Halftime Report” hosted by Scott Wapner.It was one of the greatest moments in financial television with two hedge fund titans, who have been feuding […]

[credit provider=”YouTube” url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEORpjVNJQk”] Everyone has been talking about the hedge fund war over Herbalife — a multi-level marketing firm that sells weight loss and nutrition products.

A man from Cincinnati took out an ad in the New York Times telling hedge fund titan Bill Ackman to “get a life.” 

Herbalife, a multi-level marketing firm that sells nutrition products, has become one of the most controversial stocks lately. 

I visited a Herbalife nutrition club in Queens. There is plenty wrong with this company – but this is not a post about the things that are wrong with the company (most of those I will leave for other people to think about). This is simply a post about what […]

Shares of Herbalife have rallied back since hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the CEO of $11 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, revealed his massive short position on the stock. 

[credit provider=”FactsAboutHerbalife.com”] During today’s investor presentation, Herbalife’s president Des Walsh said the ‘most offensive thing’ from Bill Ackman’s short thesis was when he showed photos of their “Nutrition Clubs.”Walsh says the clubs provide value to these communities, many of which are lower income and have a need for education about […]

This morning we learned that Dan Loeb is long nutritional supplement company Herbalife, and now we know why.

[credit provider=”Pershing Square Capital Management” url=”http://www.visualwebcaster.com/Pershing/84728/event.html”] Activist investor Bill Ackman, who runs Pershing Square Capital Management, is known these days for his massive short on Herbalife — a multi-marketing company that sells weight loss and nutritional supplements. He gave a mammoth presentation last month explaining that he believes Herbalife is a […]

Activist investor Bill Ackman has generated a great deal of buzz since revealing his massive short position on Herbalife — a multi-level marketing company that sells weight loss and nutritional supplements — but that doesn’t mean everyone agrees with him.

[credit provider=”Getty Images Entertainment/ Stephen Lovekin/Staff”] Activist investor Bill Ackman, who runs $11 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, told CNN Money‘s Maureen Farrell that he will go “to the end of the earth” for his a massive short position on Herbalife to play out.Ackman, who is known for being a […]

[credit provider=”Bloomberg TV screenshot” url=”http://www.bloomberg.com/video/58462718-bloomberg-s-richard-interview-on-ackman-bet-against-mbia.html”] Bill Ackman, the CEO of $11 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, revealed last month that he has an enormous short position on Herbalife. According to Bloomberg News’ Duane Stanford, the activist investor first looked into shorting Herbalife 18 months ago after receiving a phone call from […]

Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, appears to be taking his battle with Herbalife, which he calls a  “pyramid scheme”, to another level.  

[credit provider=”Julia La Roche for Business Insider”] A few days ago I wrote a post describing shorting multi-level marketing schemes as akin to the Battle of Stalingrad. Little did I know that Bill Ackman was shorting well over a billion dollars in Herbalife stock. [If you need the figure you can back […]

Interesting…

Bill Ackman, who has an enormous short position on Herbalife, believes that the multi-level marketing company that sells nutrition and weight loss supplements is a pyramid scheme. He has a price target of zero and believes the company will fail.  

[credit provider=”FactsAboutHerbalife.com”] Activist investor Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, has just unveiled his website taking on Herbalife, a multi-level marketing company that sells weight loss and nutrition supplements. Ackman, who has an “enormous” short position, believes Herbalife is a pyramid scheme.  He also has a price target […]

Activist investor Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, has officially launched a website about his short thesis on Herbalife. 

Shares of Herbalife are down 14% today.  Yesterday, hedge fund giant Bill Ackman gave his brutal short thesis in a presentation, which is circulating today.. 

Shares of Herbalife are tanking again today after activist investor Bill Ackman gave a blistering 342-slide presentation on his short thesis for the nutrition and weight-loss multi-level marketing company. 

[credit provider=”Julia La Roche for Business Insider”] Activist investor Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, gave a blistering three-hour long presentation in Midtown Manhattan yesterday about his short position on Herbalife. He wasn’t the only one from Pershing presenting the extremely in-depth 342-page slide deck calling the multi-level […]

[credit provider=”CNBC screenshot”] Herbalife has responded to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman’s epic three-hour long presentation of his short thesis for the company calling it a “malicious attack.”Ackman, who has an “enormous” short position on Herbalife, called the company a pyramid scheme. He also has a price target of $0 […]

[credit provider=”Bloomberg” url=”http://www.bloomberg.com/video/bill-ackman-certain-herbalife-is-a-pyramid-scheme-RtAHqsHLSPK_zGuRA2LCzw.html”] Pershing Square Capital’s Bill Ackman has gone public with his short position on Herbalife, and the stock has been getting creamed.Ackman was on Bloomberg Television with Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle today to explain why he believes “this is the highest conviction I have ever had about […]

[credit provider=”Julia La Roche for BI”] Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, gave a huge three-hour long presentation on his new short position — Herbalife.The activist investor considers Herbalife, a multi-level marketing company that sells weight management and nutritional supplements, to be a “pyramid scheme.”

Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, was on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” this morning to talk about his bullish case for JCPenney following a piece by Andrew Ross Sorkin in the NYTimes that ripped into the retailer. 

[credit provider=”Julia La Roche for Business Insider”] Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management and the Pershing Square Foundation helped do something truly remarkable this past Saturday. Employees from the hedge fund and the Pershing Square Foundation helped build and pay for a brand a new playground on an […]

[credit provider=”CNBC”] Yesterday hedge fund heavyweight Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, presented his big idea at the 8th annual Value Investing Congress. He wants the sale of one of his long-time investments, General Growth Properties, to Simon Property Group. 

Dealbook’s Michael de la Merced just Tweeted the following after Bill Ackman’s appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” this morning. 

Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, presented his big investment idea at the 8th annual Value Investing Congress in Manhattan. 

Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, is still making a bullish case for JCPenney even though his hedge fund is taking a beating on that investment.

[credit provider=”Pershing Square Capital Management” url=”http://www.visualwebcaster.com/Pershing/84728/event.html”] Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, just filed his 13F regulatory filing. For the second quarter ended June 30, 2012, Pershing Square revealed that it exited its entire positions in Kraft and Family Dollar Stores. 

[credit provider=”YouTube/FloatingUniversity” url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kijlZzN5TBo”] Monte Burke of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote a piece about a fishing guide named Oliver White who took Pershing Square Capital Management’s founder, Bill Ackman, on a fishing trip in the Bahamas.  At the end of the trip, Ackman was so impressed with the young man, that […]

[credit provider=”CNBC”] Shares of Procter & Gamble soared on Thursday when it was revealed that Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital held a huge stake in the consumer goods giant.Ackman, a legendary activist investor, is known for bringing big changes to the companies he invests in.

Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, disclosed a 12% passive stake in Burger King in a 13G regulatory filing with the SEC. [via @CNBCnow]

We’ve got the May numbers for Pershing Square Capital, activist investor Bill Ackman’s hedge fund.

[credit provider=”CNBC”] Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, just sent out his Q1 letter to investors dated June 12, 2012.  In the letter, the activist investor said they have added new investments, one of which is a short position.  

Activist investor Bill Ackman said in his Q1 letter to investors dated June 12, 2012 that shortly after Pershing Square disclosed its stake in JCPenney the hedge fund was approached by a private equity firm to buyout the retailer for a premium.  

[credit provider=”Heidi Gutman/CNBC”] Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, who is profiled in Maneet Ahuja’s “The Alpha Masters,” reveals in the new book that sex is what motivates him to succeed.Yes, the activist investor is motivated by sex.  

Hedge fund Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, just scored a huge win in his proxy fight with Canadian Pacific Railway. 

A Bloomberg TV producer snapped a picture of Pershing Square Capital Management’s founder Bill Ackman riding the Subway this morning. 

Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman made a splash when he made a $25 million donation to the non-profit Signature theatre. It’s located on 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

Last week, we asked Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, if he thought customers shopping at a JCPenney store in the future will have an experience reminiscent of going into an Apple store. “I think the answer is ‘yes.’  What I mean by that is not that it’s […]

[credit provider=”Pershing Square Capital Management” url=”http://www.visualwebcaster.com/Pershing/84728/event.html”] There are a lot of reasons why you’re probably not a wealthy and successful hedge fund manager.One reason is that you’re not as articulate as Pershing Square Capital Management’s Bill Ackman.

What did Pershing Square Capital Management’s hedge fund manager Bill Ackman get after his $25 million charitable donation to the non-profit Signature Theatre?

[credit provider=”CNBC”] During Pershing Square founder Bill Ackman’s appearance co-hosting CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, he distanced himself and his firm from the private equity industry—which has received a recent bout of bad publicity due to its connection to presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.The hot Romney issue right now is the tax […]

Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital has been in a highly publicized battle with Canadian Pacific Railway’s management.

[credit provider=”Train Chartering & Private Rail Cars” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157606085079145/with/2655469066/”] Hedge fund superstar Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management recently disclosed a 12.2% stake in Canadian Pacific Railway.The Canadian railroad company, which has been in operation since 1881, operates on a 14,800-mile network in six Canadian provinces and 13 states in the […]

Hedge fund superstar Bill Ackman is passing on his investing wisdom to Harvard and Yale students as part of an online lecture series.

Bill Ackman is having a big week because of JCPenney.

Four hours after the opening bell yesterday, Pershing Square’s stake in JC Penney had jumped by about $200 million on the back of news that the company had tapped Apple’s SVP of Retail, Ron Johnson, as CEO.

[credit provider=”Wikimedia” url=”http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/SertifikatG.jpg”] There’s no-one happier than Bill Ackman right now about JC Penney’s new acquisition: Apple’s SVP of Retail, Ron Johnson.Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square, is JC Penney’s largest shareholder — as of March, the hedge fund owned 39,075,771 shares.

At the Ira Sohn conference in May, Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman revealed a new position in Family Dollar, with had not previously appeared in his latest 13-F.

Bill Ackman joined forces with a former Pershing Square partner to buy a 9.9% stake in in Alexander & Baldwin, a real estate and transportation company based in Honolulu, Bloomberg reported.

Bill Ackman doesn’t want his firm, Pershing Square, to be labelled a hedge fund. Nonetheless, like the rest of the hedge fund universe, the firm has just filed its latest 13F.

There’s a lot of reasons a hedge fund manager is successful; intelligence, foresight, intuition, acumen.

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square LP had a very nice 2010.

[credit provider=”Zoom” url=”http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Mochrie_Doreen_346757982.aspx”] Doreen Mochrie begins as the new head of investor relations at $6.8 billion hedge fund Perry Capital next week, Hedge Fund Alert reports.The role is a similar one to the role she had at Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital, which she officially left in February last year. […]

[credit provider=”Pershing Square Capital Management”] Legendary hedge-funder Bill Ackman of Pershing Square thinks you should ignore plummeting house prices and doomsaying gurus and step up to the plate. Houses are now a screaming buy, Ackman says.

[credit provider=”Pershing Square Capital Management”] Pershing Square Capital Management and founder Bill Ackman are bullish on housing and feel there has never been a better time to get into the game.They firm cites a variety of reasons, including low interest rates, significant declines in property values, and the potential to […]

Goldman Sachs has spun off into a new firm a private equity group that invests in inner city-based, midmarket businesses and companies. New MainStream Capital, will manage about $250 million.

Bill Ackman and Pershing Square Capital Management have just lost big in their battle over StuyTown.