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Jefferies International Ltd. (Investment Management) (Jefferies International-IM) is the investment management division of Jefferies International Ltd., an investment banking and capital markets firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm is ultimately owned by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) in the US. Jefferies International-IM offers investors an innovative range of strategies.

Jefferies Investment Management Ltd. (JIM) is a subsidiary of Jefferies International Holdings Ltd., itself a subsidiary of US-based Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF), the global investment bank and institutional securities firm with offices in the US, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Arab Emirates, India, China, Japan, and Singapore. The group is a leading provider of financial advisory, asset management, securities research and institutional brokerage. They advise growing small- to medium-sized companies and investors worldwide. JIM was established in 2002 and is based in London. The firm manages the Cayman-domiciled Global Convertible Opportunities fund, an alternative strategy formerly known as the Asymmetric Convertible Fund.

Jefferies Schweiz AG (Investment Management) (Jeffries Switzerland) is the investment management division of Jefferies (Switzerland) Ltd., part of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) in the US. Established in 1995, JAMZ is based in Zurich and is locally known as Jefferies Vermögensverwaltung AG. The firm provides investment management and advisory services, specializing in international convertible bonds. Their clients are European public-sector institutions, high-net worth individuals, and pension funds, in particular pension funds related to large European companies. Jeffries Switzerland manages discretionary institutional portfolios and a Luxembourg-domiciled umbrella fund specialized in convertibles, with country-specific sub-funds. The firm's founding followed the 1993 development of benchmarks for the global convertibles market in the form of the Jefferies Active Convertible Indexes (JACI).