Investment banking group Jefferies has expanded its Asia equity research unit with the appointment of four senior executives. It has added Julian Bu as head of China industrials and co-head of Asian conglomerates equity research, Jessie Guo as head of Asia consumer equity research, Johnson Leung as head of Asia transport equity research and Laban Yu as head of Asia oil and gas equity research.

Bu joins the firm from Macquarie Group and Guo from HSBC Holdings. Leung was previously with Tufton Oceanic and Yu with Macquarie Securities.

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