Sachem Head Capital Management

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Sachem Head Capital Management
Industry Financial services
Hedge funds
Founded2012 [1]
FounderScott Ferguson
Services Investment management
AUM US$3.4 billion(April 2024) [2]
Website www.sachemhead.com

Sachem Head Capital Management is a value-oriented investment management firm based in New York City, managed by Scott Ferguson.

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The fund was founded in 2012. According to Fortune, Ferguson "tends to be less combative than other activists." [1]

History

Ferguson, a protégé of Bill Ackman at Pershing Square Capital Management, founded Sachem Head in 2012. [3] The name derives from Sachem Head, an overlook in the Pocumtuck Range in New England.

Ernesto Cruz, formerly of JAT Capital and Highline Capital Management, joined Sachem Head in 2013, becoming a partner and an analyst of technology stocks. In February 2017, he left Sachem Head to become a portfolio manager for GIC Private Ltd., Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. [4]

A 2016 article in Fortune noted that while other protégés of Bill Ackman were "struggling," Ferguson was "doing well," outperforming not only Ackman but the market. In 2014, Sachem Head's fund returned 20.5%. [1]

As of January 2024, Sachem Head had approximately $3.4 billion in assets under management. [2]

Investments

Sachem has taken positions in Zoetis Inc., an animal health-care group. A month after CDK Global, an IT provider, went public in early October 2014, Sachem Head became its biggest investor. As of 2016, CDK's stock had risen by more than 80%. [3]

In February 2017, Sachem Head's largest position was in Autodesk, which manufactures 3-D design software, and which returned 7.7% in 2016. [4]

In January 2018, Sachem Head asked Whitbread, owner of the Premier Inn chain in the United Kingdom, "to consider a break up of its Costa Coffee chain from its hotels and restaurant businesses." Sachem Head believed that such an action would "boost the value of its individual businesses." [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hargrave, Marshall (16 March 2016). "Bill Ackman's Pershing Protégés are Struggling Too". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  2. 1 2 Herbst-Bayliss, Svea (1 April 2024). "Twilio appoints Sachem Head partner Andy Stafman to board" . Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 Butt, Rachel (2016-06-17). "Here are the 10 biggest activist money managers and some of their most impressive bets". nordic.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  4. 1 2 Taub, Stephen (24 February 2017). "Scott Ferguson's Sachem Head Loses a Partner". Institutional Investor. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  5. Martin, Ben (2018-01-17). "Activist investor Sachem Head pushes Whitbread to consider break-up". Reuters. Retrieved 2019-03-01.