The Ledger, every show
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Ackman: Herbalife runs paid Google ads targeting my name
“Herbalife is still running a negative campaign about me personally, which I find fairly remarkable. The way you can see this is if you Google my name I don't know if you want to do this right now. What will pop up is an advertisement And it, the advertisement …”
Ackman: Herbalife settled with SEC for $20M over China disclosures
“In the last six months, and you can Google it, Herbalife paid, settled with the SEC for twenty million dollars for misleadingly describing their China business and their public finance, because it actually, the compensation scheme is precisely the same as, and…”
Four of Gotham Partners' Debut LPs Were Forbes 400 Billionaires
“But of the original six, four of the six were in the four, 400 wealthiest people in America.”
Ackman: SVB was unique in its disproportionate long-duration asset exposure
“Silicon Valley Bank was, I would say, unique in the disproportionate amount of exposure they had to, kind of, long-duration fixed-income assets versus other banks.”
Ackman: 85% of Pershing Square's capital is permanent public capital
“85% of our capital is in the, you know, comes from a public company. And as a result, we have very, very long duration money, and we don't need to worry about this quarter or this year in making decisions, and that, I think, is a huge advantage.”
Ackman: Dedicated black swan funds surged 1,000% in market crash
“All they do is put on these kind of hedges waiting for disaster, and they're, you know, some of them are up a thousand percent. You know, some of the smaller ones are up a thousand percent in the last month or so.”
Ackman: Pershing Square dollar grew 27 to 28 times over 22 years
“So if you invested a dollar in Pershing Square, you know, 22 years ago, that's, that became you know 20 I think, I should know this number. It's like 27 or 28 times net of all fees. Okay? Over, over 22 years.”
Ackman Raised $3.1 Million From Six LPs to Launch Gotham Partners
“But we had I think we eventually saw well over a hundred people, and we had six people ultimately say yes and give us money, and the six people totaled, look, 3.1 million dollars. Actually three million, and my partner and I put up a hundred together.”