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Daniel Och

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “chairman and chief executive officer of och-ziff capital management group”. Today it says “american billionaire hedge fund manager”.
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The opening as it read in 2010

Daniel Och is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, a global hedge fund and alternative asset management firm.1 As of March 5, 2008, Och's net worth was $3.6 billion, the 296th on The World's Billionaires list published by Forbes. Receiving $918,939,482 total compensation last year, he was the highest paid executive on The Globe Opinion's executive compensation list in 2008.2

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “chairman and chief executive officer of och-ziff capital management group”. Today it says “american billionaire hedge fund manager”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

chairman and chief executive officer of och-ziff capital management group

Now

american billionaire hedge fund manager

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