STEPHENS

conducting business and market research

investment advice, general securities brokerage, investment banking involving corporate strategic advice, public and private capital raising for others, financial consulting in the field of mergers and acquisitions, private equity investing, insurance brokerage, public financing and underwriting of municipal and corporate debt, financial advisory services, financial asset management, providing financial services with respect to securities and other financial instruments and products, namely, money management services, institutional sales and trading as both principal and agent