Last spring, when Internet stocks were sizzling, magazine publisher Ziff-Davis issued a tracker for its ZDNet Web division.
ZDNet investors don't hold a stake in the Web business, but in parent Ziff-Davis.
Representatives of Ziff Brothers, Jana, TPG-Axon, Jennison, UBS and Deutsche Bank declined to comment.
L.P. (KKR), Fortress Investment Group (FIG), and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (OZM).
News Corp has sold the online gaming site IGN to Ziff Davis parent company j2 Global.
Most of Ziff-Davis's subsidiaries have fallen dramatically in value since their flotation nearly two years ago.
Och-Ziff's IPO is backed by a large team of underwriters, led by Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers.
Killen is a 41-year-old Australian who joined Yahoo in 1996, after running European operations for Ziff Davis.
The seller is Dean Ziff, a private investor whose family founded and owned Sunglass Hut retail stores.
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Because legally it was not, its trading losses did not appear in either Ziff-Davis's or Softbank's accounts.
Since then, I have held executive positions at Ziff Davis, Outward Bound, Yahoo!
Och-Ziff is a global alternative asset management firm headquartered in New York City.
Ziff is part-owner, could be the most expensive--and the snootiest--private club in America.
More than a decade ago, a young Forbes reporter, Natasha Bacigalupo, started dating billionaire publishing scion Dirk Ziff.
Ziff Davis already boasts a substantial online portfolio, including PCMag.com, Toolbox.com, and Geek.com.
Mr Ziff accordingly proposes to replace beta with a measure of total risk.
Terry Nulty, CEO of ZDU, Ziff-Davis (ZD) ' online education unit, had Rosenthal's help building ZDU before Rosenthal joined Kaplan.
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The other way of doing it is Ziff-Davis': Issue all the new tracking shares directly to the public to raise cash now.
Natasha Bacigalupo was once a young Forbes reporter who met billionaire publishing heir Dirk Ziff while on the job in the 1990s.
The empire: Ziff-Davis magazines, Comdex computer shows, Kingston Technology, all through Softbank.
I'd like to thank Emily Ziff, my friends, my friends, my friends.
He wasted billions on Ziff-Davis, which he is now trying to sell.
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This also means, says Mr Ziff, that beta is not much use to anyone who is not thinking in terms of a total portfolio.
The older businesses, such as Ziff-Davis's publishing arm, did not generate as much cash as Mr Son hoped they would when he bought them.
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Our work suggests that Och-Ziff has significant operating leverage to assets under management, and recent inflows bode well for both revenue growth and margin expansion.
Unlike its quoted peers, Och-Ziff Capital Management and Fortress Investments, GLG chose to float with a one-vote-per-share structure, although its founders do retain dominant stakes.
Finally, we believe Och-Ziff has a strong management team, solid track record of healthy risk-adjusted returns, market share gain opportunities, accelerating fund inflows, and an attractive valuation.
Outside of the technology sector, there are two companies, Och-Ziff Capital Management and URS Corporation, that possess unique characteristics that make for attractive investments, in our opinion.
The Oz Master Fund posted a 0.69% return in April and a year-to-date return of 4.08%, according to the SEC filing Och-Ziff Capital Management made on Tuesday.
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"All signs point to this being the same type of denial of service problem that's being experienced by other sites, " according to Martha Papalia, spokeswoman for Ziff-Davis.
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