Bill Ackman to close largest SPAC ever, return billions to investors

Two years after forming the largest special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) ever, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is shutting it down.

Ackman's Pershing Square Tontine Holdings raised $4 billion in its initial public offering in July 2020, but the activist investor told shareholders this week he would be returning those funds after failing to find a suitable target company to merge with. READ MORE