Asset Management and Closed-End Funds
Raymond James acts as a trusted advisor to asset management companies, guiding management teams with in-depth industry and financial analysis and the creative structuring necessary to complete corporate transactions and successfully raise capital. We focus on long-term collaboration, leveraging both our industry expertise and the breadth and depth of our relationship network, across the entire FIG spectrum, to assist our asset management clients in achieving their strategic objectives.
Our broad range of investment banking services includes strategic and M&A advisory as well as debt and equity capital formation through public and private offerings. Whatever your objective – raising capital, responding to a potential buyer, determining if your company is in the right position to acquire a business or penetrating new markets through an acquisition – we provide the advice and structuring vital to success.
Raymond James also collaborates with some of the world’s premier money managers, assisting in their efforts to sell quality investments to the Raymond James retail investor. Our decision to underwrite and distribute products is grounded in solid principles of due diligence and our emphasis on client suitability. We are continually invited to lead or co-manage new closed-end funds for our clients based on our broad experience in both bull and bear markets.
Raymond James has acted as a co-manager on approximately 120 closed-end fund IPOs since 2000 with an average deal value of over $575 million.

Banker Contact:
Jack MacDonald
Dietrich Moor
Brian Nestor
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Jack MacDonald
Managing Director
Sector Focus: Asset Management
New York
212-883-6540
jack.macdonald@raymondjames.com
Jack MacDonald joined Raymond James & Associates in 2008 from XPL Advisors LLC, an asset management M&A advisory boutique, where was a principal and co-founder. Prior to co-founding XPL in 2002, Mr. MacDonald was a managing director and co-head of asset management investment banking at Putnam Lovell, where he also founded and served as co-head of the capital markets fixed income group. Prior to that, he was a vice president in the investment industries group of Citicorp Securities, Inc. Mr. MacDonald holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Business Administration with a focus in accounting from St. Norbert College.
Dietrich Moor
Senior Vice President
Sector Focus: Asset Management
New York
212-856-4364
dietrich.moor@raymondjames.com
Mr. Moor joined Raymond James in January 2012 from the Wells Fargo Financial Institutions Group where he was active in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and private placements in the asset management, closed-end fund, financial exchange and broker dealer sectors. In all, Mr. Moor has more than ten years' experience in the investment banking and corporate finance industry, including positions with Credit Suisse and Lazard. Before receiving his M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 2001, Mr. Moor was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Brian Nestor
Vice President
Sector Focus: Banks and Thrifts & Asset Management and Closed-End Funds
St. Petersburg
727-567-1759
brian.nestor@raymondjames.com
Mr. Nestor is a Vice President with the Financial Institutions Group. Mr. Nestor is active in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements, as well as initial public offerings of closed-end investment companies. Prior to joining Raymond James, Mr. Nestor worked as a corporate bankruptcy and commercial litigation attorney. Mr. Nestor received his M.B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in 2005 from the University of Notre Dame and received his J.D. degree in 2000 from the Notre Dame Law School. Mr. Nestor received his B.S. degree in Finance from Florida State University in 1996.
