Leadership Letters
Winning Summer Interns Setting The Jefferies Tone For The Month Of August!
Last month, we asked each of our 176 US and Asia-based summer analysts and associates to help define the future of Jefferies by writing their own August 1st “Jef_All Letter.” Specifically we asked each summer intern to give us their thoughts, ideas or plans on how we can address one or more of the following […]
What We At Jefferies Have Learned From Living With Covid For Four Months
We are six months into the calendar year and for the last four of these months, we have all been living with the realities of Covid.
Outstanding First Half…Let’s Pace Ourselves
We just released our Second Quarter results below and we want to thank each of you for your amazing hard work and dedication to Jefferies and our clients. We are now one month past halfway through our fiscal year and, while nobody knows what the future will hold, it should be obvious to all of you that we are in the best position possible to continue our 2020 journey towards an extremely successful collective achievement.
We Learned A Lot These Past Three Months…Bring On The Next Six!
While these past three months feel like years unto themselves, when we look at the calendar today, it is “only” June 1st – the exact mid-point of Jefferies 2020 fiscal year.
George Floyd & Mental Health
We imagine like most of you, none of us have been able to sleep at night recently and this time it is not because of the horrible nature of the Coronavirus. In the past week we have seen two of the most glaring examples possible of hatred, anger, racism and evil imaginable.
We Are In Awe Of Team Jefferies
THANK YOU, THANK YOU AND THANK YOU! Yesterday each of you rallied and together working with our clients we raised $9.25 million which will go immediately to help those in the front line battling this horrible virus the world is fighting.
30 Things I Have Learned During My First 30 Years At Jefferies
Thirty years ago today at the age of 28, I officially began working at Jefferies in Los Angeles. Technically, I agreed to join Jefferies in February of 1990 to help build a high yield bond department, but for the first three months I had a dual role as I was also helping to liquidate the bond portfolio of my previous employer that just filed for bankruptcy, Drexel Burnham Lambert.
When Are We Going To Return To Work At Jefferies?
Welcome to the month of May. It is clear that for the next month of our lives, the press and the chatter will be incessantly focused on the plans and strategies emerging about how businesses are going to “bring people back to work.”
Solid First Shot But More Bazookas Needed
A little over two weeks ago, we wrote to you that the epicenter of the massive turmoil in the economy is the endless range of businesses that employ a large portion of the work force. Our focus was, and is, to help working people maintain their jobs throughout this hopefully contained period of isolation and demand collapse by supporting and maintaining previously strong and viable enterprises that employ good hardworking people.
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.