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The firm was co-founded in 1994 by Mike Vranos and Laurence Penn with funding from Ziff brothers investments. [3] By the end of 1995 the firm had become a three-fund operation with a variety of assets. [4] Ellington was affected by the Long-Term Capital Management debacle in 1998. [5]
The firm was founded as Och-Ziff in 1994 by Daniel Och with financial support from the Ziff family, founders of Ziff Davis Media. The company completed an initial public offering in 2007. The firm was one of the few hedge funds and private equity companies that completed IPOs before the 2007–2008 financial crisis. [14]
They also provided seed money to fund manager Daniel Och in exchange for a 10% stake in Och-Ziff Capital Management which went public in 2007. [6] The brothers dissolved Ziff Brothers Investments in 2014 and now invest independently. [6] In 2006, he served as a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation. [7]
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Dirk Edward Ziff was born in 1965, Robert D. Ziff in 1967, and Daniel M. Ziff in 1973. Their father was the Jewish American media magnate William Bernard Ziff Jr. (1930–2006), who had inherited Ziff Davis from his father William Bernard Ziff Sr. and built the magazine publisher that included titles such as Popular Aviation, PC Magazine, and Car and Driver. [1]
Daniel Och (born 1961) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and former CEO of Och-Ziff Capital Management, a global hedge fund and alternative asset management firm. [1] According to Forbes he has a net worth of US$3.6 billion, as of August 2021. [2]