This decision to target customers that were focused on long-term results enabled Baupost to distinguish itself from private equity firms that would sell winning investments quickly in order to justify the high short-term performance they needed to raise more capital from investors.

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In October he was handed a 12-month jail term by a judge who found him in contempt of a High Court order instructing him to disclose Atiya's whereabouts.

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