Stifel Financial

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Stifel Financial Corporation
legal form Corporation
ISIN US8606301021
founding 1890
Seat St. Louis , Missouri , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Ronald J. Kruszewski (Chairman and CEO )
Number of employees 7100
sales 2,996,000,000 US dollars
Branch Financial service providers
Website www.stifel.com
As of December 31, 2017

The Stifel Financial Corporation is a US financial services provider with an affiliated investment bank and is based in St. Louis , Missouri. The first predecessor company of Stifel Financial was founded in 1890 as Altheimer & Rawlings Investment Company by Benjamin Altheimer and Edward Rawlings. The later namesake Herman Stifel joined the company in 1897, Henry Nicolaus and his son Louis worked for Altheimer & Rawlings from 1910. The company renamed Stifel Investment Company in 1917 and again in 1923 in Stifel, Nicolaus Investment Company .

In 1983 the company went public and since 1987 Stifel's shares have been listed on the NYSE . As of 2000, several competitors in the field of asset management and investment banking were taken over, including Miller Buckfire & Co. , Thomas Weisel Partners and the European MainFirst Bank AG .

The Stifel Nicolaus & Company and Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited are active with a total of five offices in Switzerland.

Individual evidence

  1. Stifel: Annual Report 2017 , accessed on February 13, 2019
  2. Stifel: Stifel History , accessed on February 13, 2019
  3. Stifel: Our History , accessed on February 13, 2019
  4. Handelsblatt: Stifel takes over Frankfurt Mainfirst Bank AG , accessed on February 13, 2019
  5. Authorized agencies of foreign banks and securities firms In: finma.ch , accessed on February 24, 2020 (PDF; 313 KB).