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“Karl is a world-class analyst who brings more than a decade of equity research experience to our team,” said Jack Blackstock, co-head of BMO Capital Markets equity research. “Our expansion with software continues to build out our core technology equity research team, dove-tailing perfectly with our current technology coverage: Communications Equipment (Tim Long), Enterprise Hardware (Keith Bachman), Semiconductors (Ambrish Srivastava) and our team in
Mr. Keirstead has covered IT Services and Software for more than 10 years. He comes to BMO Capital Markets from Kaufman Brothers. Previously, he worked at Lehman Brothers where he ranked highly in the Greenwich Associates and Institutional Investor surveys in the Services category. Between his years at Lehman and Kaufman, Mr. Keirstead founded A Running Start Foundation, which benefits young people in
He holds a MBA from the
BMO Capital Markets' global research coverage currently evaluates 932 publicly traded companies, with a team of 66 equity research analysts, six macro/strategy analysts and a total research staff of 195. BMO Capital Markets has been steadily hiring within all areas of its business in the
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BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider, with more than 2,000 employees operating in 14 North American offices and 26 worldwide, offering corporate, institutional and government clients access to a complete range of investment and corporate banking products and services. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$386 billion total assets and 38,000 employees as at July 31, 2010.
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