FBR Capital Markets Company Description
Don't confuse FDR and FBR: One was a beloved US president, while the other loves dead presidents. FBR Capital Markets provides investment banking, institutional brokerage, and fee-based asset management services for institutional and corporate clients and wealthy individuals. It also invests its own capital in merchant banking transactions alongside its clients and Friedman, Billings, Ramsey (FBR Group). The company focuses on the financial services, insurance, and energy industries as well as real estate and health care. FBR Group created FBR Capital Markets in 2006 and spun off some of its stake in an IPO the following year, but retains a controlling stake of around 50% in the firm.
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