
Leadership Letters
Even With Heartbreaking Loss, Springtime Can Bring Green Shoots of Optimism
We hope you, your family and your colleagues are healthy and managing through this crisis as safely and effectively as possible. As you know, this week the coronavirus caused us to lose our friend and partner, Peg Broadbent, who served as CFO of Jefferies Group since 2007.
The Epicenter of the Massive Turmoil in the Economy and the Markets
Jefferies’ Investment Banking clients are primarily mid-sized public and private companies in all industries, generally worth $500 million to $10 billion. They employ many tens of millions of people and represent a true cross-section of the economy.
Priorities, Strategies and Emotions of Living and Operating in a Pandemic
The two of us have spent virtually every waking hour (and unfortunately plenty of our sleep time) for well over a month focused on and thinking about the Coronavirus and its implications for all of our families and friends, our clients and Jefferies.
Grasping for the Bright Side and Perspective in Dealing with the Coronavirus
Now that each of us has a second to breathe and truly be with our families, we would like to share some bigger picture thoughts with you.
A Time of Uncertainty, and a Time to Step Up At Home and At Jefferies
The Coronavirus has now expanded globally and is becoming a factor in every one of our lives. None of us truly knows the scale and scope of what we will be dealing with, but there is no doubt that fear of the unknown is beyond unsettling.
The Too Often Overlooked Real Center Of Our Universe
Insight-generating, client-swaying, wisdom-sharing and revenue-generating MDs and Senior Vice Presidents are fuel that power Jefferies.
Thank You Jefferies – Asia
Nobody said it would be easy. Just when we thought we only had to deal with Brexit, trade wars, environmental disasters, government shutdowns, riot protests, and political elections, we have now been introduced to Coronavirus.
Fiscal 2020 – Our Goal and Our Plan for By Far Our Best Year Ever and the Beginning of the Road to 2030
Thirty years ago, just after one of us arrived at our firm, Jefferies was a pure boutique with one real business, cash equities, which drove net earnings of $7 million on galactic-wide total revenues of $144 million.
Proud to Have Millennials Teach Us Their Way
It is often said that millennials are a complicated breed of super-humans with unique ways of living, learning, playing and working.