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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In 2007, when Dan Och took his hedge fund public, he was making a bet that his company would stand the test of time. More than 15 years, a bribery scandal, and a feud with his protégé later, things have not worked out as planned. The FT’s Ortenca Aliaj and Sujeet Indap go inside the saga that lost shareholders more than $10bn.
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For further reading:
Sculptor Capital: grey areas cause grey hairs in messy bidding war
Fight over Sculptor hedge fund sale entwined in Daniel Och’s tax affairs
Sale of Sculptor Capital on cusp of approval after hedge fund brawl
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0:29.6 | It's pretty well known in finance that hedge funds can be among the most secretive types of investment firms. |
0:38.0 | Behind that, there's this idea that this secrecy and lack of transparency gives them an extra edge over their competitors. |
0:47.2 | But there's this one hedge fund manager who took a pretty unusual step within his industry. He listed his firm on the stock market. |
0:55.0 | So if you're a public company, obviously you report four times a year, you have to publish |
0:58.8 | securities filings, that's time-consuming and onerous, and you're subject to SEC regulation. |
1:05.0 | That's the FT's Wall Street editor, Sujit Endup. |
1:08.0 | He says that when a hedge fund manager named Daniel Auk decided to take his company public back in 2007. This was a surprising move. |
1:16.9 | And just that kind of scrutiny is not something many hedge fund founders want, who are often very secretive and already have a stable of |
1:24.9 | investors who are loyal to them. By taking his firm public in 2007, Dan Ock made a |
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