Mr Anbar-Colas will be responsible for all CLO/CDO trading within the firm’s Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities (MBS/ABS) group, part of the fixed income division at Jefferies. The firm’s MBS/ABS group now includes approximately 85 sales, trading and origination professionals in the US, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Mr Anbar-Colas joins Jefferies from Cohen & Company, where he was a managing director and head of European ABS and global CLO trading. Previously, he worked at UBS as executive director and head of global CDO trading. He also worked at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers in a various sales and trading positions.
Tim Cronin, global head of the fixed income division at Jefferies, said: “We are very pleased to welcome Mr Anbar-Colas to lead Jefferies’ growing CLO/CDO trading group in Europe and see his joining as another important step in the continued expansion of Jefferies’ global fixed income business.”
In a joint statement, Johan Eveland and William Jennings, co-heads of the global MBS/ABS group at Jefferies, said: “We remain committed to building out Jefferies’ broader asset-backed trading effort globally, and Mr Anbar-Colas’s knowledge, experience and relationships in trading CLOs and CDOs will make an immediate contribution to the firm’s leading platform.”
