Jefferies Financial Group is a financial services company engaged in investment banking and capital markets, asset management and direct investing. Co.'s segments include: Investment Banking and Capital Markets, which focuses on investment banking, equities and fixed income; Asset Management, which manages and provides services to a group of alternative asset management platforms across a range of investment strategies and asset classes; Merchant Banking, which includes investments in Linkem S.p.A., the fixed wireless broadband services in Italy, Vitesse Energy, LLC and JETX Energy, LLC, which is engaged in oil and gas production and development, and real estate primarily HomeFed LLC.