The Independent – With his Hampshire estate boasting one of the finest shoots in the county, the 42-year-old City tycoon has all the trappings befitting one of the most powerful hedge fund investors in Europe. His dealmaking prowess is as legendary in hedge fund circles as the battle strategies of the Duke of Wellington, the one-time resident of his grand 920-acre spread.
So powerful was his hedge fund company, Och-Ziff, that it was made one of the 16 key “priority investors” in the Royal Mail flotation which made millions of pounds in instant profits by being given extra allocations of the underpriced shares.
