NEW YORK & HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jefferies announced today the appointment of Desh Peramunetilleke as
Head of Global Microstrategy Product in Equity Research. He is based in
the firm’s Hong Kong office. Desh heads up the newly-formed
Microstrategy team, which includes Mahesh Kedia, Shrikant Kale, Barnis
Yuen, Jeffrey Tong and Jenny Wu.
Microstrategy is a bottom-up product that uses company fundamentals to
create insights into markets and sectors, and combines it with top-down
macro trends to develop systematic investment strategies, diagnostic
screens and proprietary risk scores for clients all over the world and
across investment styles.
“We are very excited to have Desh join Jefferies’ leading equities
platform,” commented Peter Forlenza, Jefferies’ Global Head of Equities.
“We are substantially expanding our Asian equities platform given our
outlook on the Asian regional markets and the opportunity. Jefferies is
perhaps singular in the industry currently to have the intent and
ability to enlist such impressive teams in Asia.”
Mr. Peramunetilleke was most recently Head of Microstrategy at CLSA and
has over 20 years of equity research experience.
Jefferies Group LLC, the largest independent full-service global
investment banking firm headquartered in the U.S. focused on serving
clients for over 55 years, is a leader in providing insight, expertise
and execution to investors, companies and governments. Our firm provides
a full range of investment banking, advisory, sales and trading,
research and wealth management services across all products in the
Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF), a diversified
financial services company.
Contacts
For inquiries:
Richard Khaleel
1-212-284-2556
[email protected]
