TheStreet.com engaged in a “roast” of “the prematurely gray” activist hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, and snarky jokes ensued, all in front of an audience of financial journalists and industry participants Friday evening at the “Financial Follies” in New York. Bill Ackman’s prematurely gray hair questioned by Tim Cook The coloring of Bill Ackman’s hair, who has stated he is in the best tennis shape of his life, was a theme throughout the roast. “What’s with the prematurely gray hair?” questioned “Tim Cook,” played by Jonathan Marino. “You can afford to lose half a billion dollars on J C Penney Company…
TheStreet.Com Roasts Bill Ackman, Hits Icahn And Others
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.