Leadership Letters
What To Look For In The Ideal Business Partner
20 years ago, I met Brian Friedman. He was not looking to re-establish a career in investment banking, had no experience in sales, trading or research, and did not want to help build or run another financial services company.
Our Ten Best Thoughts On What’s Next – Looking Forward, Always
A little over a year ago, we all started dealing with the reality of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Almost everything we thought we knew, assumed or depended upon as a construct for living our lives or running our businesses was abruptly called into question and challenged.
Thank You Team Jefferies For An Outstanding First Quarter Of 2021
Below is a copy of our just released Q1 2021 results.
Our Asian Jefferies Family
We feel compelled to share our feelings and emotions that we expect must be on many of your minds.
A “Good Day” Brings Optimism At Jefferies As We Continue to Grow Stronger Together
It’s difficult to believe that we have all been dealing with the impact of COVID-19 for twelve months. In some ways, it still doesn’t feel real, but in other ways it feels like an eternity of pain, sadness, confusion and sacrifice.
Jefferies to hold “Doing Good” Global Trading Day on February 26
As we have endured almost a full year of the global effects of COVID-19, we believe it is an appropriate time for us to step back and reflect on all that we at Jefferies have to be thankful for in our lives.
Is It Really Only February 1st?
Just when we thought we saw it all in the torturous, volatile and seemingly endless year of 2020, the very first month of calendar 2021 delivers us a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and a short squeeze of epic proportion that has turned into a virtual tug of war with financial, political and societal ramifications.
Vaccines Are On The Way, But We Must Stay the Course and Protect Ourselves, Our Families and Each Other
One of Jefferies' great strengths is our ability to focus intensely on today with an incredible sense of urgency, while at the same time, thinking, acting and building for the long-term.
So Much To Give Thanks For In 2020
For most of 2020, each of us has been living in a COVID-19 pandemic world. It is easy and obvious to state all of the things that have brought varying degrees of pain and hardship to the world, and it is easy to become overwhelmed with the challenges, setbacks and disappointments of a global pandemic.