FORM 8-K
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549



CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported):  January 30, 2001


                    Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc.
            (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)




   Virginia                      54-1837743                   001-13731
(State or other    (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or    (Commission File Number)
jurisdiction of                organization)
Identification No.)



                             1001 Nineteenth Street
                           North Arlington, VA 22209
              (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)


                                (703) 312-9500
              (Registrant's telephone number including area code)



Item 9.


        On January 30, 2001,  Friedman,  Billings,  Ramsey Group,  Inc. issued a
press  release  announcing  its earnings for the 4th quarter 2000. A copy of the
press  release  has been  filed  on Form  8-K on  January  30,  2001.  Friedman,
Billings,  Ramsey Group, Inc. is supplementing the information  contained in the
January  30,  2001 Form 8-K by  furnishing  the  following  Year End and  Fourth
Quarter 2000 FBR Group Earnings Conference Call Transcript.

1.        Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc., attaches herewith, as exhibit
99.1, Year End and Fourth Quarter 2000 FBR Group Earnings Conference Call
Script, January 30, 2001.

      The following Exhibit is furnished as part of this report:

99.1 Year End and Fourth Quarter 2000 FBR Group Earnings Conference Call
Transcript, January 30, 2001.

SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company
has duly  caused  this  Report  to be signed  on its  behalf by the  undersigned
hereunto duly authorized.

FRIEDMAN, BILLINGS, RAMSEY GROUP, INC.

By: /s/ Emanuel J. Friedman
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer





      EX-99.1 CONFERENCE CALL TRANSCRIPT




For Immediate Release
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Media Contact:  Michael W. Robinson (703)-312-1830 or mrobinson@fbr.com
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Investor Contact:  Kurt Harrington (703)-312-9647 or kharrington@fbr.com
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                        Year End and Fourth Quarter 2000
                               FBR Group Earnings
                             Conference Call Transcript
                                January 30, 2000


[Speaker:  Michael Robinson]

Good  morning.   This  is  Michael   Robinson,   Vice   President  of  Corporate
Communications  and  Investor  Relations at Friedman,  Billings,  Ramsey  Group.
Before  beginning  our call,  I would like to remind  everyone  that  statements
concerning future performance,  developments or events,  concerning expectations
for  growth,  filed  backlog  and market  forecasts,  and any other  guidance on
present  and  future  periods,  constitute  forward-looking  statements.   These
forward-looking  statements  are  subject  to a number of  factors,  risks,  and
uncertainties  which  might  cause  actual  results  or  developments  to differ
materially  from stated  expectations  or current  circumstances.  These factors
include,  but are not  limited  to, the  effect of demand for public  offerings,
activity in the secondary securities markets, the high degree of risk associated
with venture  capital  investment,  competition  among  venture  capital  firms,
competition  for business and  personnel,  available  technologies,  and general
economic,  political,  and market conditions.  Additional information concerning
factors that could cause  actual  results to differ  materially  is contained in
FBR's Annual Report on Form 10K and quarterly reports on Form 10Q.

I would now like to turn over the call to our Chairman  and  Co-Chief  Executive
Officer, Emanuel Friedman.

[New speaker: Manny Friedman]

Thank you and good morning. As I'm sure you've seen by now, Friedman,  Billings,
Ramsey Group this morning  reported that our broad mix of asset  management  and
capital markets  businesses - with their focus on financial  institutions,  real
estate,  technology,  and energy - resulted in net income of $18.1  million,  or
$0.36 per share diluted and $0.37 per share basic for the year.  Revenue for the
year was $180.9 million.

This compares  favorably with our net loss of $7 million or $0.14  (diluted) per
share last year on revenue of $139 million.

As you know, we also reported our fourth quarter results today. For the quarter,
FBR had net  income  of $1.4  million,  or $0.03  (diluted)  per share and $0.03
(basic) per share,  versus net income of $10.2 million,  or $0.21  (diluted) per
share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $26.4
million, compared with $67.6 million for the fourth quarter of 1999.

Again this year, our revenues were evenly diversified - with a third coming from
each of our principal  businesses in asset management,  investment banking,  and
institutional brokerage.

It's no surprise - and in fact it's the  cornerstone  of our strategy - that the
same industry  expertise and research  depth that we have always  brought to our
capital markets  business in financial  institutions,  real estate,  technology,
and, most recently, energy, have enabled FBR to prosper in the same areas in the
asset  management  arena. Our performance in 2000 is evidence of our breadth and
our ability to use our  understanding  of these industry sectors to maximize our
returns.

Before I turn the call over to my Co-CEO Eric  Billings  for more details on our
capital markets  activities,  I'd like to briefly focus on our asset  management
accomplishments last year, and some of our plans for the future.

For the year,  our asset  management  revenue  was $63.8  million,  more than 51
percent ahead of last year $42.1 million.

For the fourth  quarter,  in asset  management,  FBR  reported  $1.9  million in
negative revenues versus $16 million in the previous quarter,  and $35.8 million
in the  fourth  quarter  of  1999.  Asset  management  revenues,  which  include
investment  gains and losses,  were adversely  affected in the fourth quarter by
the downturn in the technology sector which was partially offset by $9.2 million
of revenue from the company's non-technology asset management vehicles.

In 2000,  the  diversity  of our asset  management  vehicles  continued to be an
especially  good  revenue  driver for us. In addition to  realizing  significant
returns on our own invested capital, our sector-specific  strategy enabled us to
generate  steady  fee income  throughout  the year as  capital  flowed  from one
industry sector to another. With 11 proprietary venture capital, private equity,
hedge  fund,  and other  alternative  asset  management  vehicles,  FBR's  asset
management  business has  investments  in financial  institutions,  real estate,
technology, energy, and related companies.

Of the 11 vehicles,  5 are focused  squarely on technology,  while the remainder
offer opportunities across a number of sectors. In 2000, more than $13.3 million
in revenue came from our non-technology-based asset management products.

In the financial sector,  FBR Ashton, a proprietary hedge fund which has focused
on publicly-traded  U.S. financial equities since 1992, generated a gross return
of 45 percent in 2000.

Additionally, FBR's three private equity funds focused on the financial sector -
FBR Private Equity Fund, FBR Financial Services Partner (FBR Financial Fund II),
and  FBR  Future  Financial  Fund  -  contributed  significantly  to  the  asset
management group's revenue in 2000.

The FBR Arbitrage Fund continued with outstanding  results and a return of gross
28 percent for 2000 and a 3 year compound return of 27.6%.

In the real estate  sector,  FBR Asset  Investment  Corporation  (Amex:  FB) - a
publicly-traded  Real Estate  Investment  Trust (REIT) managed by FBR - declared
dividends  of $2.95 per share in 2000,  representing  a return of 21 percent for
the year. FBR Asset's book value also  increased 24 percent,  or $4.36 per share
to $22.35  in the year  2000.  FBR  itself  has a 35  percent  equity  ownership
interest in FBR Asset.

In the  technology  sector,  FBR  Technology  Venture  Partners  I  (FBR  TVP I)
generated  a gross  return  of more than 9 times the  original  investment  from
inception  through the end of 2000, of which more than 6.5 times was distributed
to FBR TVP I's  partners  during  the  year.  By the end of 2000,  FBR TVP I had
distributed $267 million to its partners. Another $43 million was distributed in
January 2001.

Also in 2000,  FBR launched  three new technology  venture  capital funds,  with
almost $100 million targeted for investments in technology companies in the U.K.
and Europe, the Pacific Northwest, and the genomics and biotechnology sector.

With that,  I will turn the call over to my Co-CEO Eric  Billings for a detailed
discussion of our capital markets accomplishments in 2000.

[New speaker:  Eric Billings]

Thank you Manny. It's a pleasure to talk with you this morning about our capital
markets  activities  - and we will be pleased to take your  questions  in just a
minute.

Last year was a good year for FBR's capital markets businesses.

Capital markets  revenues for the year was $107.3 million,  more than 24 percent
ahead of last  year's  $86.1  million.  Investment  banking  revenue  was  $53.9
million, 10 percent over 1999's $49 million; and institutional brokerage revenue
for the year was $53.4 million,  more than 44 percent above the previous  year's
$37 million.

In the fourth  quarter,  FBR's $26  million in capital  markets  revenue  (which
includes investment banking and institutional brokerage) was consistent with the
third quarter's $25.6 million.

FBR's $13.6 million in investment  banking  revenue for the fourth  quarter came
from public  underwritings,  private placements,  and merger and acquisition and
other advisory assignments in the financial institution,  technology, and energy
sectors.  With 11 deals in all,  investment  banking revenue matched that of the
third quarter.

The  quarter  also  saw  continued  strength  in FBR's  institutional  brokerage
business,  with  revenue of $12.3  million,  versus $12 million in the  previous
quarter,  which is up 29  percent  over  fourth  quarter  1999  revenue  of $9.5
million.

In  investment  banking,  we saw a nice  mix of  public  underwritings,  private
placements,  merger and acquisition  and other advisory  assignments for leading
companies from across the financial institutions,  real estate,  technology, and
energy sectors.

In addition to maintaining our traditional  strength in public  underwritings in
2000, we also fulfilled our promise of increasing our merger and acquisition and
other advisory revenues.

In all, we participated in more than $4 billion in underwritings  and advised on
more than $1 billion in mergers and acquisitions. To give you a sense of some of
the transactions we were involved with:

o        In financial institutions we advised Prism Financial on its acquisition
         by the Royal Bank of Canada;  advised City Holding  Company on the sale
         of the  servicing  rights for about $1.1  billion of mortgages to Ocwen
         Financial  Corporation;   and  co-managed  a  $67.5  million  secondary
         offering for American Capital Strategies, Ltd.
o        In technology we advised Aether Systems, Inc. on its acquisition of
         Cerulean Technology, Inc.; underwrote the $165 million initial public
         offering of webMethods, Inc.; and handled a $52.7 million private
         placement for Strategy.com, and a $19 million private placement for
         Headstrong.
o        In energy we lead managed the $19.5 million  initial public offering of
         Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (with total returns of 75 percent for the
         year,  making it the #1 best performing oil and gas industry IPO of the
         year according to CommScann  Equidesk);  lead managed the $80.5 million
         initial  public  offering/re-capitalization  of DevX Energy,  Inc.; and
         finished the year as the #8 energy  equity  underwriter  in the country
         (according to Bloomberg).

And already in 2001 we've seen renewed  activity,  for the first time in several
years, in another key area of strength for FBR,  mortgage REITs. Just last week,
FBR  lead  managed  a  $85  million  secondary   offering  for  Annaly  Mortgage
Management,  Inc.,  the first  mortgage REIT to  successfully  access the public
capital markets in almost three years.

And, as some of you may remember, FBR was ranked the #1 REIT IPO lead manager in
1998,  and executed the last initial  public  offering in that sector before the
market's focus shifted.

Our technology team, under the leadership of Phil Facchina, almost doubled their
revenues over the previous year, just as they did in 1999.

Overall,  our work in the technology  sector with an array of global  technology
leaders,  was the largest single  contributor to our investment  banking revenue
last  year - first  through a wave of public  underwritings,  and later  through
major private placements and merger and acquisition assignments.

Our  institutional  brokerage  business was another  good  performer in 2000 and
continued  to generate  significant  revenue as a result of the  company's  deep
research  base which  provided  a detailed  framework  for  capitalizing  on the
market's volatility in 2000. In fact, one of our lead technology analysts, David
Hilal,  was honored in June as the "number one stock picker" in the Internet and
Software and Services sector by The Street.com.

In 2000, FBR also initiated research coverage on 65 new companies,  bringing our
total to 371 companies  under  coverage with an increased  emphasis on providing
coverage of larger  companies in order to  facilitate  even greater  penetration
into large institutions.

Finally,  the results from our private  client group this year were noting short
of  spectacular.  Armed with a "best in class" team of managers and a full range
of equity and fixed  income  products,  our private  client  group  continues to
attract  a wide  range of  clients  focused  on two  goals:  safeguarding  their
existing  wealth  and  finding an  experienced  hand to help them  discover  new
opportunities for further wealth creation.

As our 2000  capital  markets  results  make clear,  even in the most  turbulent
markets,  FBR has a demonstrated ability to identify,  communicate,  and execute
transactions across our four focused sectors

With  that,  I would  like to open  the call for  questions.  Joining  me are my
Co-CEOs Manny Friedman and Russ Ramsey - along with our Chief Operating  Officer
Bob Smith and our Chief Financial Officer, Kurt Harrington.

[At end of Q&A]


If there are no further questions, that concludes our conference call for today.

Thank you for joining us.  Have a good day.

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