NEW YORK, May 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers LLC ("Weiss"), an asset management firm with 40 years of trusted performance and dedicated client service, today announced a strategic relationship with Leucadia Asset Management, the asset management arm of Leucadia National Corporation ("Leucadia"), a diversified financial services company. As part of this new alliance, Leucadia, which conducts its investment banking and capital markets business through Jefferies, has agreed to make an investment into Weiss' multi-strategy hedge fund business.