25 Biggest Activist Short Sellers in the Hedge Fund World

1. Pershing Square (Bill Ackman)

Pershing Square Capital Management is a hedge fund launched in 2004 by a renowned investor Bill Ackman. He is known to say that when he finds an interesting company for a short position he would go “to the end of the earth”. At least, this is what he said when he discussed shorting Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), which ended up being his worst failure, with the fund losing around $455 million. In his public presentation about the company, Bill Ackman mostly criticized its business model accusing it was a pyramid scheme. Bill Ackman’s biggest success in short selling was MBIA.

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This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.