About Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated

This brokerage and investment banking firm I work for has three particularly admirable qualities:

Honesty. Integrity. Respect.

Stifel Nicolaus was founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1890. When the Wild West was being settled, St. Louis was the gateway to America's future.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated has grown from those dusty days to become a major market maker with assets of over $115 billion under management today.

The company provides brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory, and other related financial services. There are 84 senior research analysts covering 1198 companies, 87 of which are closed-end funds, for the firm.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated received awards in FT/Starmine World's Top Analyst Survey for 2011.

Overall, Stifel Nicolaus ranked #2 of the 193 firms that qualified for the survey.

With accolades like that, today's Stifel Nicolaus can add a bit of a national swagger to its Midwestern walk. Its differentiating strategy of providing clients with extraordinary research seems to be paying off. Certainly those interested in hiring a financial advisor and planning for retirement in Northern Colorado would do well to have such awesome information on tap.

Today, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is a full-service financial services firm with approximately 5,100 associates and more than 310 offices in 44 states and the District of Columbia (plus 3 European offices through Stifel Nicolaus Limited).

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is the largest subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp., which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SF."

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