We provide investment banking, research, sales and trading, asset and wealth management, public finance, insurance, private capital, and family office services.
We are a family-owned financial services firm that values client relationships, long-term stability, and supporting the communities where we live and work.
The idea of family defines our culture, because each of us knows that our reputation is on the line as if our own name was on the door.
Our reputation as a leading independent financial services firm is built on the stability of our longstanding and highly experienced senior executives.
We are committed to corporate philanthropy; economic and financial literacy advocacy; and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Stephens is proud to sponsor the PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, and PGA TOUR Champions careers, as well as applaud the philanthropic endeavors, of our Brand Ambassadors.
Stephens is the official investment banking partner of Williams Racing, one of the most winning teams in F1 history. We share that tradition of success.
We host many highly informative meetings each year with clients, industry decision makers, and thought leaders across the U.S. and in Europe.
Austin Brady joined Stephens in 2017 as an Account Executive; he was brought on board to support the expansion of the Stephens Insurance Energy Group into the Houston marketplace.
Brady’s energy experience includes five years at Frank’s International, a global oil services company providing a comprehensive range of highly engineered tubular services to leading exploration and production companies, where he served as the Onshore Sales Manager. In this role, he provided strategic leadership to a sales force covering all major domestic drilling basins while overseeing the execution of global Master Service Agreements and pricing contracts. Complementing his knowledge of onshore operations, Brady has substantial experience working closely with some of the most active drilling programs and well intervention specialists in the Gulf of Mexico. Brady also spent a decade servicing clients in the financial services industry where he held roles of increasing responsibility in fixed income sales, trading, and analytics.
A native Houstonian, Brady is a graduate of Strake Jesuit College Preparatory and received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Southern Methodist University.