Company: SFB
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094691
Chunk: 24

Company: STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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 ownership greatly exceeds that target. Independent Compensation Committee Consultant and Identification of Peer Group In 2024, the Committee continued to retain Compensation Advisory Partners LLC (CAP) as the Committee’s independent Compensation Consultant. CAP reports directly to the Committee, attends Committee meetings, and provides executive compensation related services. These services include reviewing this compensation discussion and analysis, advising on compensation program design such as restricted cash, PRSUs and peer company selection, providing market data on executive compensation trends and named executive officer compensation levels, and assisting the Committee with evaluation of pay-for-performancealignment. For 2024, the Committee considered the conflicts-of-interestrelated considerations for retention of a compensation consultant set out in the NYSE’s listing standards, and determined that no such conflict of interest exists with respect to CAP. CAP identifies and the Committee adopts a single “peer group” as a reference group for the Committee’s review of compensation levels and market practices. Our peer group is composed of companies operating in the investment banking, brokerage and asset management businesses that are of similar size, by revenue, assets, income, market cap and total shareholder return.

| Peer Group                                                                                                                    |     |                                                                                                              |     |                                                                                                            |
| Affiliated Managers Group Inc.   Ameriprise Financial, Inc.   Evercore Inc.   Franklin Resources, Inc.   Houlihan Lokey, Inc. |     | Invesco Ltd.   Jefferies Financial Group Inc.   Lazard Ltd.   LPL Financial Holdings Inc.   Moelis & Company |     | Northern Trust Corp.   Piper Sandler Companies   Raymond James Financial, Inc.   T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. |

| Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders |     | 39 |

KEY EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION PROGRAM ELEMENTS The Committee seeks to utilize a balanced mix of compensation elements to achieve its goals, with total compensation for our executive officers heavily weighted towards variable elements that reward performance. The following table describes each component of our executive compensation program, how it is determined, and the purpose or purposes we believe it accomplishes. “Realized” compensation is paid (or vests) to the executive officer either during or on account of the year and is of fixed realizable value and ordinarily available to the executive officer. “At-Risk”compensation, by contrast, is delayed and subject to future conditions. An executive officer risks losing this compensation on account of these conditions not being met.

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