NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CLSA Americas, the North American affiliate of Asia's leading independent brokerage and investment group CLSA, is pleased to announce that Chad Messer has joined its institutional equity division as a healthcare trader.
Mr. Messer joins CLSA Americas as a Director and will be based in New York. He has over twenty years of financial services experience, all with Deutsche Bank Securities and predecessor firms including Alex Brown and Bankers Trust. He was most recently with Deutsche Bank Securities in New York, where he was a Director and Healthcare Trading Sector Head. Mr. Messer holds a BA in History from Denison University.
Rick Gould, CEO of CLSA Americas commented, “We are very excited to have Chad join our team. Chad’s deep background and experience in healthcare trading, as well as his strong relationships with top-tier institutional accounts, allow us to expand the scope of CLSA America’s trading platform and provide our clients with a key product offering.”
About CLSA Americas, LLC
CLSA Americas is the North American affiliate of CLSA, Asia’s leading and longest-running independent brokerage and investment group. CLSA provides broking, equity trading and execution, corporate finance and asset management services to global corporate and institutional clients. CLSA established a US representative office in New York in 1986 to serve US fund managers investing into Asia and has the largest dedicated Asia-markets sales desk in North America. In 2009, CLSA initiated coverage on US equities and today has staff located in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco and Canada.
About CLSA Ltd.
CLSA is Asia’s leading and longest running independent brokerage and investment group. The company provides equity broking and execution services, capital markets & corporate finance and asset management services to global corporate and institutional clients.
Renowned for service excellence, product innovation and award-winning market intelligence, CLSA has provided research, sales and trading services to investors since 1986. CLSA has built its reputation on unrivalled equity research and economic analysis which is consistently ranked the best in Asia. In 2014, Asiamoney recognized CLSA as the Best Broker in Asia for Combined Research and Sales over the past 25 years (1990-2013) in the Asiamoney 25 year Poll-of-Polls. With exchange memberships in every developed market in Asia and the USA, together with a dedicated team of experienced sales traders, CLSA is committed to delivering the best execution.
CLSA is headquartered in Hong Kong, and has over 1,500 dedicated professionals located in 25 offices across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the The Americas. CLSA’s parent company is CITIC Securities International. Additional information is available at www.clsa.com.
