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April 03, 2000
First Union Securities Adds Senior Business Services Analyst to Equity Research Department
BALTIMORE - First Union Securities, Inc. has announced that D. Cotton Swindell has joined the Equity Research team as a Director/Senior Vice President following the Business Services Industry.
Swindell joins First Union Securities from DB Alex Brown where he followed the Environmental, Industrial and Business Services industries for nearly ten years. Prior to DB Alex Brown, Swindell worked with Prudential-Bache Securities. Swindell received his MBA in finance from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and his undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia. He will work out of the First Union Securities' Baltimore equity research offices.
"We are excited to have Cotton on board to cover the business services industry for us," noted Anthony Gallo, National Director of Equity Research for First Union Securities. "Cotton's vast industry expertise will position us nicely to provide value-added research in the Business Services industry."
First Union Securities Equity Research division currently has nearly 50 senior analysts covering approximately 500 companies in nine main sectors: Communications & Technology, Real Estate, Healthcare, Industrial, Energy, Consumer, Furnishings & Textiles, Financial Services, Business Services.
First Union Corporation is a leading provider of financial services to more than 16 million retail and corporate customers throughout the East Coast and the nation. It is the nation's sixth largest bank holding company with assets of $253 billion as of December 31, 1999. The company operates full-service banking offices in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C., and securities offices in 41 states.
Important Notice: First Union Securities is the trade name under which First Union Corporation conducts its investment banking, merger and acquisition, asset management and mutual fund, brokerage and insurance businesses.
First Union Securities includes: (1) First Union Securities, Inc. ("FUSI"), a registered broker-dealer and member NYSE/NASD and SIPC providing investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory and brokerage services to corporations, individuals and other institutions throughout the United States; (2) First Union Brokerage Services, Inc. ("FUBS"), a separately registered broker-dealer and member NASD and SIPC providing primarily retail brokerage services; (3) First Clearing Corporation ("FCC"), a separately registered broker-dealer and member NYSE/NASD and SIPC, providing securities clearance and settlement services; (4) the Capital Markets and Capital Management Groups within First Union National Bank ("FUNB"), a national banking association, and its subsidiaries, providing asset management, lending, structured finance risk management, derivatives, and fiduciary services to institutions and individuals; (5) various subsidiaries within First Union Corporation providing investment advisory, administrative and other services to the Evergreen and Mentor families of mutual funds; and (6) various wholly-owned state insurance agencies.
Stocks, bonds, mutual funds or other securities offered or sold through First Union Corporation or any of its bank or non-bank subsidiaries are not deposits of any bank and are not insured, guaranteed or otherwise protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency; are not endorsed or guaranteed by First Union Corporation, FUNB or any bank; and involve investment risk, including possible loss of principal.
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