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Dan Och’s note to clients two days before Christmas, telling them that star trader Jimmy Levin wasn’t going to get the top job at Och-Ziff Capital Management Group after all, shows how tough succession can be at hedge funds.
Och, who founded Och-Ziff more than two decades ago and is still its chief executive officer, told clients that he had changed his mind about Levin and would seek a successor from the outside, according to people familiar with the firm, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
Och, 56, said in the note that after conferring
