A Customized Plan Deserves a Range of Services

Our Services

Our services cover all areas of wealth management, from investment and retirement planning to risk management estate planning strategies. We specialize in helping our clients develop a comprehensive, cohesive financial strategy that aligns with their unique needs and helps them to pursue both short- and long-term goals.

Wealth Planning

We understand that you have a unique set of circumstances that shape your financial goals and needs. Our holistic approach to wealth planning leverages the knowledge and expertise of Stifel’s experienced professionals to address all aspects of your financial situation. The financial planning process provides you with the opportunity to assess financial and non-financial assets, saving and investing practices, and the ability of these to help you pursue your stated long-term financial goals.

Estate Planning

Estate planning encompasses more than the distribution of your estate to your heirs. It is a process designed to identify the best possible way to accumulate, preserve, and pass your wealth by implementing a plan that aligns with all of your objectives. A carefully prepared estate plan can help you address lifetime management issues and ensure you are financially prepared to meet with an estate planning attorney.

Tax Planning

Understanding the ever-changing income tax code is no easy task. Our tax planning professionals help you better understand federal and state income taxes and how they may impact particular investment strategies. Our goal is to help interpret the tax code as it relates to your investments and to provide you with customized tax planning ideas to discuss with your tax advisor.

Asset Management

Using Stifel’s planning capabilities, we’ll analyze your particular investing behaviors, individual preferences, and the asset classes that align with your risk tolerance and customized investment plan. Our asset management affiliates employ a diverse range of active equity, fixed income, asset allocation, and alternative investment strategies.

Banking, Lending, and Trust Services

We take a collaborative approach to lending, cash management, and trust services to complete your full financial picture. Stifel Bank provides access to a variety of lending program to meet your ongoing liquidity needs. Stifel Trust can help pair you with appropriate third-party trustees for your trust accounts as well as assisting in selecting an appropriate advisory strategy for managing trust assets.

Cash Management

We offer a comprehensive suite of cash management services to integrate your day-to-day liquidity needs with your long-term ambitions. While great for the occasional payment, these solutions are also an attractive alternative to a traditional bank.

Exchange Traded Funds

Exchange traded funds and notes are financial instruments that provide the diversification of a basket of securities combined with the flexibility of trading throughout the day like stock. Whether you are looking to gain broad market exposure, focus on a specific area of the market, or construct a fully diversified portfolio, through ongoing, professional research of the full universe of exchange traded funds and notes, we can recommend specific products that best fit your customized needs.

Fixed Income Strategies

With a deep understanding of bonds and fixed income investments, we can help you integrate these core investments into your plan using a disciplined process designed to help preserve your hard-earned wealth while striving to provide a steady cash flow today and into the future.

Philanthropy

We can work closely with you to fulfill your philanthropic endeavors in a tax-efficient manner through charitable giving strategies, including endowments, private foundations, and donor-advised funds. While Stifel does not provide legal or tax advice, we work in tandem with your CPA and estate attorney to bring light to complex issues that you may not have considered.

Mutual Funds

Stifel can take the legwork – and guesswork – out of the mutual fund selection process by providing the research and knowledge needed to navigate the thousands of choices available. Mutual funds offer professional management, diversification, and convenience. Stifel offers over 250 fund families encompassing thousands of different mutual funds.

Investment Banking

Stifel has a full-service investment bank with deep industry experience that serves as a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, private equity groups, and leading public and private corporations in North America, Europe, Asia, Israel, and Latin America. The investment bank has more than 600 investment banking professionals ready to provide the insight and expertise you require. Our integrated approach allows us to deliver the full capabilities of Stifel’s institutional capital markets platform and retail brokerage network, which are among the most highly regarded in the industry.

Education Planning Strategies

We develop strategies for the various ways to save for a child’s education, including college savings plans, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, and UGMA/UTMA accounts.