Pershing Square Capital Management founder Bill Ackman told the audience at Delivering Alpha that his fund would take an activist role in Proctor & Gamble.
“We’re going to take a hard look to see if we can add any value” to Proctor & Gamble , Ackman said.
Pershing Square, a hedge fund with roughly $10 billion under management, has been a large and active investor in Canadian Pacific Railway and retailer J.C. Penney .
Earlier in the day, Ackman had told investors in a letter that it sold its Citigroup shares to help build a stake in Procter & Gamble. Ackman told CNBC his fund owns about $1.8 billion dollars worth of stock in P&G.