Bill Ackman
- Gotham
- Pershing Square
- Herbalife
- 2015-? - Bill Ackman - [Herbalife] - Who Wants to be a Millionaire - 334p
- 2016 - VIDEO - Betting on Zero - [Herbalife] --- [BonkNote] --- [VIDEO-YouTube-01:44:16]
- Carl Icahn
- 2013 - CNBC - Billionaire Brawl: Icahn vs. Ackman - [link-YouTube]
- Clash Of Titans: Carl Icahn Vs. Bill Ackman Five Years After Epic Showdown | CNBC - [link-YouTube]
- - Book - Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle, by Scott Wapner
- MBIA - Bond Insurer - Monoline
- Eric Dinallo, NYSID
- [MBIA - Bond Insurer - Monoline]
- 2002 1209 - Report - Is MBIA Triple A?, by Bill Ackman, Gotham Partners - 55p
- <WishList> - Letter to Moody's and the S&P about Ambac (ABK) and MBIA
- 2007 - Report - Who's Holding the Bag, Bill Ackman, Pershing Square - 64p
- 2007 1201 - NYT - Short Seller Sinks Teeth Into Insurer, by Joe Nocera - [link]
- 2008 0131 - Bill Ackman to Eric Dinallo Superintendent of Insurance State of New York, re: Monolines, Bond Insurer Transparency - 20p
- Sean Dilweg, Commissioner of Insurance State of Wisconsin
- 5 directors at the Securities and Exchange Commission
- “Open Source Research”
- 2008 0214 - GOV (House) - The State of the Bond Insurance Industry, Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) --- [BonkNote]
- 2008 0214 - MBIA - MBIA Releases Text of Letter Sent to Regulators on 'Open Source Model', re: Bill Ackman - 5p
- 2010 0423 - FCIC - FCIC memo of staff interview with William Ackman - 3p
- letter, which was addressed to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and others.
- 2020 - Book - Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff, by Christine S. Richard
- (p2) - MBIA had risk, “hidden in an entity with no ability to absorb risk.”
- He believes MBIA encouraged the SEC and NY AG to investigate him.
- Asked why he chose to short MBIA, he said MBIA was “crooked and stupid” where Ambac was simply “stupid.”
- MBIA used insurance company capital to guarantee derivatives, an act which is illegal in NY.
- They set up “transformer” SPV in order to get around the NY Insurance Department rules.
- He missed AIG, assuming that Hank Greenberg was too smart to get caught so short on capital.
2010 0423 - FCIC - FCIC memo of staff interview with William Ackman - 3p
- Since 2002, Pershing Square's founder, William Ackman, had been the monoline industry's most vocal skeptic, publishing a number of reports questioning the insurers' high credit ratings and periodically shorting the companies' stock. 160
2010 - AP - Inefficiencies in the Information Thicket: A Case Study of Derivative Disclosures During the Financial Crisis - [link]
- Investing with Leaders - Warren Buffett talks about Bill Ackman & Herbalife Scam - [VIDEO-YouTube-03:35]
- Bloomberg Originals - Bill Ackman: Herbalife Distributors Turning State’s Evidence - [VIDEO-YouTube-26:17]