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1. Starbucks Spikes After Hedge-Fund Billionaire Bill Ackman Discloses a Stake in the Company
  
  Explore Stock Market Data Today Oct 9 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...e coffee retailer... Starbucks shares jumped by as much as 5% Tuesday on news that the hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman had bought a stake in the coffee retailer. According to CNBC's Leslie Picker, Ackman disclosed the...
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2. Synergy Pharmaceuticals Investors Ask Ackman And Icahn To Intervene - Synergy Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGYP)
  
  Explore Stock Market News & Financial Analysis Apr 30 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...w shareholders to pledge support for an activist campaign in the company. They are asking both Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman to get on board. I recommend investors buying a speculative position as well as to consider partic...
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3. Is This the End of Activist Investing?
  
  Explore FoxBusiness.com Apr 6 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ed companies with multibillion-dollar market capitalizations, but compared to 2016 activity cooled... In 2017 activist investors targeted companies with multibillion-dollar market capitalizations, but compared to 2016 ac...
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4. Has Bill Ackman Lost His Touch? Pershing Investors Say Yes
  
  Explore Fool.com Apr 5 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ionaire investor's ability to bounce back from adversity. Post to Facebook Has Bill Ackman lost his touch?... Bill Ackman is one of the most influential investors on Wall Street, and the billionaire's Pershing Square Cap...
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5. Activist Investors Should Taker the Lead on Board Diversity
  
  Explore Bloomberg Apr 5 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ted as part of an agreement with activist ValueAct Capital. Other popular ones are Veronica Hagen, who was on Bill Ackman's slate at Automatic Data Processing Inc. and one of Broadcom's initial candidates in its attempt ...
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6. Ranking the Activists for Proxy Season 2017
  
  Explore Stock Market Today Dec 11 2017 BoardBlogs
  
  ... could also soon be in the works. But for now, GE's in the loss category. Mark 2017 as another rough year for Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square Capital Management. As of November 30, Pershing Square reported a -2.7% in...
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7. Bill Ackman Is Watching for These Six Washington Policies
  
  Explore Stock Market Today Nov 28 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...ol Hill and at the nation's securities regulator that will impact embattled billionaire Bill Ackman and other activist investors in the months to come. We took a look at the top six Washington issues facing insurgent man...
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8. We May be About to Witness the Fall of Wall Street God
  
  Explore Business Insider Nov 7 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...n was losing his connection to myth, and this publication published a piece titled "What the heck happened to Bill Ackman." In the following year, and in 2016, Pershing Square posted massive losses. The last two years ha...
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9. The Wall Street Journal: ADP to File SEC Complaint Against Bill Ackman as Proxy Fight Heats Up
  
  Explore wsj.com Oct 31 2017 BoardNews
  
  Human-resources software firm Automatic Data Processing Inc., locked in a proxy battle with William Ackman, says it will file a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission over what it calls false and misleading claims the activist investor made this week...
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10. P&G vs. Nelson Peltz: A Battle Over the Future of Big Brands
  
  Explore 4-traders : one website, all markets Oct 8 2017 BoardBlogs
  
  ...t. Its last game-changer was Tide Pods laundry packs in 2012. The weak results attracted an earlier activist, Bill Ackman, in 2012, which led to the departure of the CEO the following year. Mr. Ackman, whose Pershing Squ...
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11. ADP Needs a New CFO, Says Research Firm
  
  Explore ww2.cfo.com Sep 18 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...ive serial acquisition strategy.” The statement came in a note criticizing the substance of activist investor Bill Ackman’s threatened proxy fight at ADP, which was launched in August. Management CV calls the proxy fight...
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12. 4 Things This Billionaire Investor Wants You to Know About ADP
  
  Explore pantagraph.com Sep 12 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...(NASDAQ: ADP). While the company has actually performed quite well over the past few years, activist investor Bill Ackman thinks it can do much better, and recently purchased an 8% stake in the company. He backed his the...
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13. Activist Investor Bill Ackman Made Settlement Offer to ADP
  
  Explore CNBC.com Aug 28 2017 BoardNews
  
  The billionaire investor made a settlement proposal to ADP two weeks ago by suggesting that the board add his three nominees to avoid fighting an expensive and disruptive proxy battle, a new filing shows...
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14. Meet The New Breed Of Activist Investors Who Are Trying To Give Silicon Valley A Conscience
  
  Explore FastCompany.com Jun 10 2017 BoardBlogs
  
  ...at activist investors—whether impact-based or not—are becoming more mainstream. Well-known personalities like Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn have shown the investing world that a single voice can gain power and shift corpora...
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15. Buffalo Wild Wings' CEO is Leaving the Struggling Chain After Activist Investor Triumphs in Months-Long Battle for the Board
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 2 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...es after months of disputes between the hedge fund and the restaurant company. McGuire, who has been called a Bill Ackman "protégé," kicked off the power struggle in August 2016, when he published an open letter accusing...
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16. Why Valeant Pharmaceuticals Is Down 10% Today
  
  Explore Fool.com Mar 17 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...s entire stake in the embattled drugmaker... Following a decision by longtime investor and hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman to sell his shares in the struggling drugmaker, Valeant Pharmaceuticals' (NYSE:VRX) stock price wa...
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17. Another Round in Icahn v. Ackman
  
  Explore boardprospects.com Mar 15 2017 BoardProspects CEO
  
  ... victory in his bet on AIG with the removal of CEO Peter Hancock. Meanwhile, it has been a very tough week for Bill Ackman who finally dumped his shares in Valeant -- which resulted in a $4B loss for his fund. ...
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18. A Quick Reminder That Bill Ackman's Worst Nightmare is Still Very Much a Thing
  
  Explore Business Insider Feb 27 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...Valeant's stock price was hovering around $257, and the company's biggest cheerleader, hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman of Pershing Square, had nothing to do but smile. However, since accusations of accounting malfeasa...
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19. Pershing Square, Nine Others Hit With SEC ‘Pay to Play’ Violations
  
  Explore One America News News Jan 17 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...Dermid January 17, 2017 By Sarah N. Lynch and Svea Herbst-Bayliss WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s hedge fund paid $75,000 to settle civil “pay-to-play” charges with the Securities and Exchange C...
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20. Activist Investor Sends a Brutal Letter to turn Buffalo Wild Wings Franchisees Against Management
  
  Explore Business Insider Dec 6 2016 BoardNews
  
  ...ion," stated the letter to franchisees, signed by Marcato CEO and founder Mick McGuire, who has been called a Bill Ackman "protégé. In the letter, Marcato also announced the launch of WinningAtWildWings.com. The website ...
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21. Carl Icahn on CNBC Says a lot of Companies are ‘Way Overvalued’
  
  Explore One America News News Oct 17 2016 BoardNews
  
  ...vism and that serious investors need to be “extremely patient.” About Herbalife, Icahn declined to comment on Bill Ackman, who has been on the opposite side of the bet on the stock, and added that he stood by his major i...
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22. Criminal Probe Casts 2009 Ackman-Target Boardroom Brawl in New Light
  
  Explore Business Insider Jul 15 2016 BoardNews
  
  ...citing the ongoing investigation. Proxy solicitors like Georgeson have become more prominent with the rise of activist investors. They help companies assess whether shareholders will vote for or against management recomm...
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23. Actually, Herbalife is a Pyramid Scheme
  
  Explore Business Insider Jul 15 2016 BoardNews
  
  ...Bill Ackman is digging in. After the Federal Trade Commission on Friday reached a settlement with Herbalife the multilevel marketing company Ackman's hedge fund said the findings "constitute a pyramid scheme....
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24. Activist Investing: The Epidemic Plaguing Boardrooms
  
  Explore FoxBusiness.com Jul 15 2016 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ight target. Understand your company and which areas are underperforming. Those sectors are prime targets for activist investors. Make sure that shareholder value is maximized so an activist may never show up in the firs...
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