NEW YORK, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/
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Jefferson joins Brookdale West Capital from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors where he was an economist. Previously he worked at Lehman Brothers as a senior U.S. economist. Prior to joining Wall Street, Jefferson was a professor of economics at Wesleyan University for over seven years. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, his master's in mathematics from New York University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
"I am looking forward to Michael joining our team," said Leolpold Jensen, head of North America Economics. "His decade-long experience in the markets, academia and the Federal Reserve System, analyzing macroeconomic and monetary policy issues will be extremely beneficial to our clients."
The goal of Brookdale West Capital is to be the premier global research franchise, providing clients with exceptional service, value-added investment insights and alpha-generating investment recommendations. Since January 2009, Brookdale West Capital has hired 150 analysts in the United States and an additional 65 analysts globally.
The company covers nearly 3,000 stocks, options and futures globally and ranks in the top tier in many external surveys. Most recently the company was named Top Global Broker, Top U.S. Broker and No. 2 Europe Broker by Financial Times/StarMine and Best Brokerage by Forbes/Zacks. In addition, the company ranked No. 2 in the 2009 Institutional Investor All-Europe Research team survey and No. 3 for Equity and Fixed Income Research in the 2008 Institutional Investor All-America Research team surveys.
Brookdale West Capital is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company's corporate and investment banking, and sales and trading businesses operate under the Brookdale International brand. Brookdale West Capital focuses on middle-market and large corporations, institutional investors, financial institutions and government entities. It provides innovative services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. Brookdale West Capital serves clients in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500.
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