Investment Products & Services

At Stifel, you’ll find open architecture, your choice of fee-based or brokerage accounts, and all the investment tools you need to serve your clients as you see fit.

With thousands of mutual funds and ETFs available in the marketplace, it is imperative to know which ones will best address the needs of your clients. Stifel’s Product Advice Department can help you select the right mutual funds to implement an asset allocation strategy or match a product to a client’s unique financial objectives and risk tolerance.

The functions of the Product Advice Department include:

Due Diligence – The firm currently offers access to more than 300 fund families covering more than 10,000 individual funds. In addition, more than 28 different 529 Plans are available for college and higher education planning.

Mutual Fund Analysis – The Mutual Funds Marketing Department employs qualitative and quantitative analysis to select, evaluate, and monitor mutual funds that appear on a recommended list of attractive funds across more than 30 asset classes.

Portfolio Analysis – Creating custom portfolio analysis reports that provide clients a complete and compelling representation of their asset allocation, fixed income and equity style distribution, sector weightings, risk and reward analysis, regional exposure, and much more.

Morningstar Advisor Workstation – Available on all desktops and provides Financial Advisors access to on-demand investment intelligence on mutual funds, closed-end funds, ETFs, and stock. It also provides a tool to create client-friendly sales proposals and hypotheticals, evaluate multi-asset portfolios, and create custom searches.

The rapid growth in number and volume of exchange traded funds (ETFs) requires that financial advisors are kept up to date with the latest information on products as they are brought to market. Our Product Advice Department can assist you in selecting the best ETFs to implement an asset allocation strategy or trading strategy to match a client’s financial objectives and risk tolerance. In addition, they will help you identify how ETFs can be used for portfolio completion, increasing diversification, hedging, and tax loss harvesting.

Fund Due Diligence – The ETF Department explores the various factors that impact the performance of an ETF. From evaluating the methodology of an index to trading liquidity, they will review this information in order to evaluate, select, and monitor performance of available exchange traded funds.

Highlight Trends – The group also reviews fundamental and technical research comments to identify ETF investing opportunities.

Mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are offered by prospectus only. Investors should consider a fund’s investment objective, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. The prospectus, which contains this and other important information, is available from your Financial Advisor and should be read carefully before investing. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate, so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. ETFs trade like a stock and may trade for less than their net asset value. There will be brokerage commissions associated with buying and selling exchange traded funds unless trading occurs in a fee-based account.

Investors should consider carefully the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses associated with a 529 Plan before investing or sending money. The official program offering statement, which includes information on municipal fund securities, is available from your Financial Advisor and should be read carefully before investing. The value of a 529 account may fluctuate, and there is no guarantee that any investment portfolio will achieve the stated goal. Your investment may be worth more or less than its original value.

Diversification and asset allocation do not ensure a profit or protect against loss.

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