As Ackman Scales Back Activist Role, JANA’s Barry Rosenstein Embraces The Role

Mark Melin

Published onJanuary 24, 2018

As Pershing Square Capital founder Bill Ackman cuts nearly one-fifth of his staff and shuns the activist limelight, JANA Partners co-founder and fellow activist Barry Rosenstein sees opportunity. With activism their “best performing area of concentration in 2017,” JANA and its long / short strategy managers are not shying away from activism. They are embracing it, according to a letter to investors reviewed by ValueWalk.

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Mark Melin

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.

As Ackman Scales Back Activist Role, JANA’s Barry Rosenstein Embraces The Role

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