Stifel Financial Corp. appointed Stephen Manaker as a managing director and senior analyst covering real estate investment trusts.

Manaker will be in charge of providing equity research coverage of self-storage REITs, as well as traditional and nontraditional small and mid-cap real estate companies.

He has sell-side experience, having worked at Compass Point, Oppenheimer & Co. and Bear Stearns, and has also worked on the buy-side at hedge funds Balyasny Asset Management LP and S.A.C. Capital Advisors.