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    "description": "<h2>Why Stifel</h2>\n<p>Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, <strong>where success meets success</strong>.</p>\n<h2>What You'll Be Doing</h2>\n<p>The Quantitative Execution Researcher works closely with the Electronic Trading team in the initiation and development of equity trading algorithms, transaction cost models, and order routing strategies. This position is heavily involved with the quant research idea generation process and initiates research into trading signals and model factors. 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Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations.  Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more.  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