Is it time to invest in Pershing Square? By Anne Ashworth Updated: 16:51 EST, 12 January 2024 e-mail View comments Until late last year, the billionaire US activist investor Bill Ackman was almost unknown outside Wall Street and the City, despite a series of corporate battles. But his fame has now spread worldwide in the wake of his successful free-speech campaign to unseat the president of his alma mater Harvard. This has been a highly contentious fight, waged largely on X, formerly Twitter, where Ackman is the financier you cannot afford to ignore. This intervention in the governance of academia is turning the spotlight on Ackman…
