Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Jefferies Financial Group provides diversified financial services including investment banking and asset management globally.
Jefferies Financial Group
Jefferies Financial Group is a global investment banking and capital markets firm providing financial advisory, underwriting, institutional trading, asset management, and wealth management services. Headquartered in New York, the firm operates across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. Its core investment banking operations deliver advisory and capital raising solutions for corporations and institutional investors, while its capital markets division executes equity and fixed income trading. Additionally, the company manages alternative investment platforms and provides private wealth solutions. Through its worldwide network of offices, the firm offers research coverage and financial market access to corporate, institutional, and high-net-worth clients globally.
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Operations
Products and/or services of Jefferies Financial Group
- Investment Banking: Provides advisory and underwriting services for mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, initial public offerings, and equity and debt capital markets transactions. Serves corporate entities, sponsor groups, and institutional clients across primary global industry sectors.
- Equities Trading and Execution: Delivers equity sales, trading, market making, derivative solutions, prime brokerage, and outsourced trading execution. Connects institutional investors to international liquidity venues and equity exchanges across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and emerging financial markets.
- Fixed Income Markets: Executes trading, sales, and market making across investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, government bonds, mortgage-backed securities, municipal obligations, and foreign currency products. Serves institutional investors, central banks, and financial institutions worldwide.
- Global Research and Strategy: Publishes fundamental equity, fixed income, macroeconomic, and sector research covering thousands of listed companies and assets worldwide. Provides institutional clients with market insights, equity strategy, ESG evaluations, and quantitative analysis to support investment decisions.
- Alternative Asset Management: Manages private equity, private credit, real estate, hedge fund platforms, and fund-of-funds investment strategies. Generates fee-based revenues and performance allocations by deploying capital across public and private market opportunities for global institutional investors.
- Wealth Management: Delivers financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, capital markets advisory, margin lending, and family office services. Serves high-net-worth individuals, private business owners, executives, foundations, and family offices across key commercial and wealth hubs.
Jefferies Financial Group executive team
- Mr. Joseph Saul SteinbergCo-Founder & Chairman
- Mr. Richard Brian HandlerCEO & Director
- Mr. Brian Paul Friedman CPA, J.D.President & Director
- Mr. Matthew Scott LarsonExecutive VP, CFO & Principal Financial Officer
- Mr. Michael James Sharp J.D.Executive VP & General Counsel
- Mr. Mark L. CagnoVP, Controller & Chief Accounting Officer
- Mr. Jun WuHead of Health-Care Coverage - Asia
- Mr. Peter ColwellGlobal Head of Industrial, Energy & Infrastructure Banking
- Mr. Oliver DiehlMD & Continental European Head of Equity Capital Markets
- Mr. Haim Jimmy HallacManaging Director