WJB Capital Group, Inc. Expands Coverage of Healthcare Industry

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- WJB Capital Group, Inc. (WJB), a privately held institutional broker-dealer and a Member of the NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and other principal exchanges, announced today a strategic partnership with HealthCare Research and Consulting (HCRC), forming WJB HealthEdge.

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In this new venture, HCRC will provide WJB exclusive access to HCRC's internal team of analysts as well as their extensive clinical expert networks covering all therapeutic areas.  WJB HealthEdge will provide institutional investors with proprietary insights across the healthcare industry in the form of live events, conference calls, and other customized research and services.  WJB HealthEdge will offer these services to clients without a contract or annual fee.

John Strapp, Co-founder of HCRC and Chairman of The Kinetix Group, parent company of HCRC, stated, "Partnering with WJB Capital Group is an exciting opportunity to expand our client base within the financial industry and to continue to provide proprietary insights to the investor community."

Craig Rothfeld, WJB's Managing Partner and Executive Director, added, "A strategic partnership with HCRC is an important and significant step in WJB's commitment to the Healthcare Sector.  WJB HealthEdge is unique in its product offering and complementary to our existing best-in-class corporate access program.  HealthEdge will now offer our customers premiere access to doctors, payors, investigators, and other healthcare insiders making WJB the premier destination for healthcare information and the trading of healthcare equities and derivatives."

About WJB Capital Group, Inc. (WJB)

WJB Capital Group, Inc. is a privately held institutional broker-dealer and a member of the NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and other principal exchanges. Since its founding in 1993, WJB Capital has employed a partnership philosophy that focuses on customer-centric trading and execution solutions to the buy-side.  WJB offers an extensive suite of global trading and execution services; agency equity and derivative executions, a dedicated corporate access team, macro, technical, derivative, TMT and financial strategists, and comprehensive commission management solutions. WJB operates its own live trading desks for all major U.S. equity and option exchanges as well as in the global market centers of Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, and South Africa. For more information regarding WJB please visit http://www.wjbcapital.com or call 646-344-4300.

About HealthCare Research and Consulting (HCRC)

HealthCare Research and Consulting is a global, independent healthcare research and advisory firm providing customized research, due diligence and strategic consulting.  With proprietary assets and unparalleled access, HCRC has provided unique insights in commercially assessing compounds, companies, and therapeutic areas since 2003.  For more information regarding HCRC, please visit  http://www.hcrccorp.com or call 646-867-0531.

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