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.
We host many highly informative meetings each year with clients, industry decision makers, and thought leaders across the U.S. and in Europe.
Alfred Ray joined Stephens in 2020 following a 30-year career in public education in Texas, fourteen of those years at the campus level, three at central administration and eight as superintendent of schools.
During his career, he has been directly involved in bond referendum construction projects in Texas City, Cedar Hill, and Mansfield ISDs (as a principal); responsible for management of multiple specific projects including financing in Fort Bend ISD (as area superintendent); and responsible for the entire referendum in all facets at Duncanville ISD (as superintendent). The total of the bond projects Alfred was either partially or totally responsible for comprising over $800million. As a superintendent, his school district was conferred nearly every fiscal award or accolade available; and he was elected to represent his peer superintendents to multiple terms on both the executive committee for TASA and the legislative council for the UIL. He brings his school district expertise to help Stephens provide Texans with strategic underwriting solutions.
Alfred attended undergraduate school at Texas A&M, playing for the Aggies varsity baseball team, before completing undergraduate and master’s degrees at University of Houston-Clear Lake.
He holds a Ph.D. in educational administration from the school he considers his alma mater, Texas A&M. Alfred is a registered Municipal Advisor Representative, Municipal Securities Representative and a registered Uniform State Law Securities Agent.
