Alessandro Astore

Alessandro Astore joined Jefferies in July 2025, after working in Technology and Industrials Specialist Sales at Berenberg for 2 years.

Bhumi Kanabar joined Jefferies in August 2022, after reading Economics & Management at the University of St Andrews and interning in the Luxury team in 2021.

James Grzinic joined Jefferies in London as a Senior Equity Research Analyst at the end of July 2009. His coverage is Pan-European Luxury and General Retail. James has almost 30 years of sell-side experience covering European Retail & Brands. Prior to joining Jefferies, he headed up the European retail team at Dresdner Kleinwort, which consistently achieved top rankings.

Frederick Wild joined Jefferies in June 2018 and covers pan-European Food and General Retail. He previously worked as a researcher in Parliament for an MP after completing his MSc in Economics at the University of Edinburgh.

What We Are Known For

• Holistic pan-European coverage of 26 companies across Luxury, Brands, General Retail, and Food Retail subsectors enables broad yet detailed analysis of the key trends and issues affecting the sector.
• Impactful, actionable top-down and bottom-up insights are backed by almost 30 years of experience and a large network of industry contacts. We continue to expand the suite of alt data sources which we use to keep on top of industry developments as they take shape.
• Anti-Consensual. We are willing to take non-consensual views backed by fundamental analysis as opposed to a ‘following the crowd’ mentality.