Five weeks ago, Carl Icahn announced he’d be closing the hedge fund he opened in 2004. Was this a sign retirement was next to come, some wondered? Hell no, Icahn recently told a reporter who checked in with the activist investor. “What else would I do? Play shuffleboard somewhere?” Mr. Icahn said from his vacation home in Florida. Carl’s got no time for anything so patently ridiculous, and is in fact busier than ever. What’s he been up to? Read more »
Bill Ackman
Carl Icahn Likens Judge Saying He Owes Bill Ackman $8 Million To Being Wrongfully Accused Of Murder, Sent To Death Row
By Bess LevinIt also appears as though investors have added about $1 billion since January. Read more »
Those ranked 11-25 on AR Magazine’s annual paycheck list. Read more »
He had a plan to save the book industry one story at a time, but now that’s probably shot to hell. Read more »
The Post reports Ackman and Scoggin Capital manager Craig Effron will do battle with McEnroe and his brother, Patrick, after bidding $100,000 on one hour of tennis at a charity lunch the other day. If the brothers are trying to gather intel on Ackman’s style, the Pershing Square founder’s formidable game was described in a book by Christine Richard, Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street’s Bluff. Read more »
Apparently it involves going long the US housing market. [PDF via Whitney Tilson]
“Sometimes the better part of valor in an investment situation is to move on. Onward.”
Let’s all meet at Target to celebrate. Read more »
“He’s like the Carl Icahn of the real estate world — you pay him to go away,” Joshua Stein, principal of New York-based commercial real estate firm Joshua Stein PLLC, said of Ackman. “He can create value by merely not being there, by merely going off into the sunset.” [Bloomberg]
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