Ron Kruszewski | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer |
Victor Nesi | Co-President |
Jim Zemlek | Co-President |
Jim Marischen | Chief Financial Officer |
Joel Jeffrey | Head of Investor Relations |
Steven Chubak | Wolfe Research |
Devin Ryan | JMP Securities |
Chris Allen | Compass Point |
Alex Blostein | Goldman Sachs |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Stifel Financial Year-To-Date and Quarterly Financial Conference Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions]. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Joel Jeffrey, Head of Investor Relations at Stifel Financial.