Profile
Prior to joining Duncan-Williams on March 7, 2010, Mr. Desmaras worked as a Managing Director for MFR Securities, Inc. He has wealth of experience in the securities industry.
His experience includes not only public finance investment banking but also institutional sales and trading sides of the business.
Mr. Desmaras traded municipal bonds and mortgage backed securities at Drexel Burnham Lambert.
He has an extensive experience in institutional sales at Merrill Lynch, and Popular Securities, where for over a decade, he made markets in municipals, IRBs, and MBSs, among other securities, at these institutions.
He began his investment banking experience at Popular Securities and worked to raise over $2.6 billion for a variety of issuers and security types from 1997 to 1998.
He rejoined Popular Securities in 2004, to open its first US mainland office and was a key member of a team that covered east coast and mid-west accounts.
Mr. Desmaras has a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MBA from Columbia University, where he concentrated on derivatives and corporate finance.
Former positions of Carlos Desmaras
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MFR Securities, Inc.
 MFR Securities, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Founded in 1994, MFR Securities, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maria Fiorini Ramirez, Inc. (also known as MFR, Inc.), a macroeconomic research firm. MFR Securities provides a variety of capital markets, sales, trading and investment banking services to institutional clients including corporate treasurers, financial institutions, GSEs, state treasurers, county treasurers, municipalities, pension managers, fund managers and insurance companies. Their sales and trading services focus on governments, agencies, municipalities, corporations, banks, insurance companies, ABS, MBS, CMBS, CPs, Yankee, Euro, domestic CDs, emerging markets and equities. MFR Securities' research focuses on providing an appraisal of U.S. and international economic conditions, central bank policy and political trends. The firm seeks to provide timely and accurate forecasts of economic activity, interest rate trends and monetary and fiscal policy developments. MFR Securities also provides technical analysis of U.S. Treasury and equity markets. | Analyst-Equity | 2010-03-05 |
Training of Carlos Desmaras
| University of Pennsylvania | Undergraduate Degree |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York | Masters Business Admin |
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MFR Securities, Inc.
MFR Securities, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Founded in 1994, MFR Securities, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maria Fiorini Ramirez, Inc. (also known as MFR, Inc.), a macroeconomic research firm. MFR Securities provides a variety of capital markets, sales, trading and investment banking services to institutional clients including corporate treasurers, financial institutions, GSEs, state treasurers, county treasurers, municipalities, pension managers, fund managers and insurance companies. Their sales and trading services focus on governments, agencies, municipalities, corporations, banks, insurance companies, ABS, MBS, CMBS, CPs, Yankee, Euro, domestic CDs, emerging markets and equities. MFR Securities' research focuses on providing an appraisal of U.S. and international economic conditions, central bank policy and political trends. The firm seeks to provide timely and accurate forecasts of economic activity, interest rate trends and monetary and fiscal policy developments. MFR Securities also provides technical analysis of U.S. Treasury and equity markets. | Finance |
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