SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JMP Group Inc. (NYSE:JMP), a growth-oriented investment banking and asset management firm, announced today that JMP Securities, JMP Group’s broker-dealer subsidiary, will host the second annual JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference in Boston at the Four Seasons Hotel on Tuesday, November 13, 2007. The conference will feature presentations by chief executives of 36 public and private companies in the biotechnology and medical devices sectors before an audience of healthcare industry peers, institutional investors and financial sponsors.