Pershing Square

Bill Ackman

Wall Street's most public activist investor.

Founder of Pershing Square Capital, a concentrated activist value investor who credits Greenblatt's writing as formative.

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Ackman's shelf

6 books publicly recommended

Benjamin Graham

17 investors · Buffett, Lu, Pabrai +14

Joel Greenblatt

5 investors · Spier, Klarman, Ackman +2

Seth Klarman

4 investors · Lu, Spier, Ackman +1

Peter Lynch

4 investors · Pabrai, Ackman, Rochon +1

Lawrence Cunningham (ed.)

2 investors · Ackman, Lu

David Einhorn

1 investor · Ackman