Billionaire Bill Ackman is known for making big contrarian bets on Wall Street, including piling into Chipotle Mexican Grill when it was still reeling from the E. coli crisis, and shorting Herbalife ...

Bill Ackman founded Pershing Square Capital Management ... Fellow activist investor Carl Icahn took the opposite stance on Herbalife. He began building a long position in the company, eventually ...

Bill Ackman, founder and chief executive of Pershing ... Ackman labelled the sales as one of the firm's "greatest investment regrets." Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) In 2012, Ackman wagered $1 billion ...

Bill Ackman is one of several high-profile billionaires ... bets of Ackman’s Pershing career was his massive short of Herbalife (initiated in 2012), a supplement company with a multi-level ...

New York CNN — Bill Ackman, the Wall Street agitator who ... most memorable gamble was a disastrous $1 billion bet against Herbalife. But in recent years, he moved his day job away from ...

The billionaire Bill Ackman has been in the headlines lately ... about a decade ago when he went up against a company called Herbalife, which makes nutritional supplements. Ackman called it ...

“I think Bill’s getting a bit carried away ... Word and then pasting it into a tweet. Following the Herbalife debacle, Ackman emphasized a core principle to help Pershing Square judge ...

Bill Ackman has more than 1.2 million followers ... Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Then there was Herbalife, the nutritional supplement company that Mr. Ackman said was preying on people ...