As Ackman 'Goes Public', He Dismisses Comparisons to Icahn

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Mark Melin
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Bring on the Carl Icahn / William Ackman spread trade.

Trading in shares of PSH, Pershing Square Holdings, was rung in by the fund’s founder, William Ackman, on Euronext’s Amsterdam market today launching at a share price of $25.

Ackman a major part of the mainstream market

In listing on the Amsterdam exchange, making it close to the 25th largest company traded on the exchange, Ackman said in a Bloomberg interview this makes him a major part of the mainstream of the market, as opposed to London, where he would be relegated to the specialist funds market. In...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.