Funding. The obligations of Company hereunder are intended to be paid out of its general assets or, in Company’s absolute discretion, through a funding program including insurance or annuity contracts or bank accounts to be owed by Company. Company reserves the absolute right in its sole and exclusive discretion either to fund the obligations of Company undertaken by this Plan or to refrain from funding the same, and to determine the extent, nature and method of such funding.

Funding. The Plan is unfunded. All benefits shall be paid from the general assets of the Employer. Shares of common stock of Stifel Financial Corp. distributed in satisfaction of benefits awarded under this Plan are authorized by the Stifel Financial Corp. 2001 Incentive Stock Plan, as amended and restated, and the Stifel Financial Corp. 2007 Incentive Stock Plan for Ryan Beck Employees.

Employer shall deposit annually the maximum allowable SEP IRA contribution at an individual retirement account designated by Employee and for the benefit of Employee.

Funding Indemnification. If any payment of principal on a Eurocurrency Rate Loan occurs on a date which is not the last day of the applicable Interest Period, whether because of acceleration, prepayment or otherwise, or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan is not made or continued, or a Floating Rate Advance is not converted into a Eurocurrency Rate Advance, in any such case, on the date specified by any Borrower for any reason other than default by the Lenders, or a Eurocurrency Rate Advance is not prepaid on the date specified by the Company or any other Borrower for any reason, the Company shall indemnify each Lender for any loss or cost incurred by it resulting therefrom, including, without limitation, any loss or cost in liquidating or employing deposits acquired to fund or maintain the Eurocurrency Rate Loan.

Funding Losses. In the case of any Borrowing which the related Notice of Borrowing specifies is to be comprised of Eurodollar Loans, the Borrower hereby indemnifies, and agrees to indemnify, each Lender against any loss, out-of-pocket cost, or expense (other than any lost profit) actually incurred by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill on or before the date specified in such Notice of Borrowing for such Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, including any such loss, cost, or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or redeployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to fund the Eurodollar Loan to be made by such Lender as part of such Borrowing when such Eurodollar Loan, as a result of such failure, is not made on such date.

The named fiduciary shall determine and communicate in writing to the fiduciary responsible for investment of plan assets the funding policy for the plan. The funding policy shall set forth the plan's short-range and long-range financial needs, so that said fiduciary may coordinate the investment of plan assets with the plan's financial needs.

Funding Status The Plan at all times will be entirely unfunded and no provision will be made with respect to segregating any assets of the Company for payment of any benefits Any Participant or Eligible Spouse will only have the rights of a general unsecured creditor of the Company with respect to any rights under the Plan The Company may choose to establish a separate trust (the "Trust"), and to contribute to the Trust from time to time assets that will be held therein, subject to the claims of the Company's creditors in the event of the Company's insolvency, until paid to Plan Participants and Surviving Spouses in such manner and at such times as specified in the Plan It is the intention of the Company that such Trust, if established, will constitute an unfunded arrangement, and will not affect the status of the Plan as an unfunded Plan The trustee of the Trust may invest the Trust assets, unless the Board, in its sole discretion, chooses either to instruct the trustee as to the investment of Trust assets or to appoint one or more investment managers to do so

Funding Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

Loans. Made any loans or advances to any Person other than travel advances and reimbursement of expenses made to employees, officers and directors in the Ordinary Course of Business;

Loans. Each Revolving Loan borrowing, each payment or prepayment of principal of any Revolving Loan, each payment of fees (other than administrative fees payable pursuant to [Section 3.4(c)] and [Section 3.4(d)], the Issuing [[Organization A:Organization]] Fees and, as set forth in Section 3.4(a), the Facility Fees), each reduction of the Revolving Committed Amount, and each conversion or continuation of any Revolving Loan, shall (except as otherwise provided in [Section 3.11]) be allocated pro rata among the Lenders in accordance with the respective Revolving Loan Commitment Percentages of the Lenders (or, if the Commitments of the Lenders have expired or been terminated, in accordance with the respective principal amounts of the outstanding Loans and Participation Interests of the Revolving Loan Lenders); provided that, if any [[Organization A:Organization]] shall have failed to pay its applicable pro rata share of any Revolving Loan, then any amount to which such [[Organization A:Organization]] would otherwise be entitled pursuant to this Section 3.7 shall instead be payable to the Administrative Agent until the share of such Loan not funded by such [[Organization A:Organization]] has been repaid; provided further, that in the event any amount paid to any [[Organization A:Organization]] pursuant to this Section 3.7 is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Administrative Agent, each [[Organization A:Organization]] shall, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, repay to the Administrative Agent the amount so paid to such [[Organization A:Organization]], with interest for the period commencing on the date such payment is returned by the Administrative Agent until the date the Administrative Agent receives such repayment at a rate per annum equal to, during the period to, but excluding, the date two Business Days after such request, the Federal Funds Rate, and thereafter, at the Base Rate plus two percent (2%) per annum.