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Your advisor taps our global resources and expertise to help you pursue your goals.

We invest because we believe in a better future. We invest to connect our today to our tomorrow. And whether we recognize it or not, we invest for more than goals; we invest for purpose.

Investing is personal, so planning should begin with the individual. It’s emotional, and your financial advisor can help keep you grounded. It’s a deliberate act of optimism, so it needs to connect what is to what could be.

Your financial advisor places you at the center, utilizing purposefully selected investments that are personalized for your goals, time horizons, and risk tolerances. Said another way, it’s about linking investments to investor outcomes. Because investing shouldn’t just connect your financial plan to goals. It should connect you to what matters most.

50

years of creating and managing wealth

5,000

approximate SEI professionals employed worldwide*

$1.5T

assets under management and administration*

*As of June 30, 2024

Connecting your portfolio to purpose.

At SEI, we recognize that asset allocation is the biggest determinant of investment success, which is why we apply time-tested, rigorous research and oversight¹. We know the future is unknown and that diversification can be the antidote to uncertainty. We partner with your advisor to help enhance returns, reduce volatility, and manage investment risk through:

Leading-edge investment strategies: Five decades of serving individual and institutional investors having a deep understanding of markets, disciplined research, and a sharp focus on risk management, broad diversification, and a commitment to goal achievement.
Access to leading boutique and institutional investment managers: You may benefit from the same sophisticated investment philosophy and processes used by institutional investors, generally only available to large organizations.
Robust tax management resources: It’s not just the money you earn that counts—it’s what you keep. With a special focus to help manage tax implications within your portfolio, we help you enhance after-tax returns.

Asset allocation

In our view, the best way to maximize the chances of investment success is to avoid making emotionally driven portfolio changes. Yet when market volatility inevitably strikes over the course of an investment plan, many investors find it difficult to refrain from acting on their anxieties.

Asset allocation can help address such “behavioral biases,” allowing investors to remain invested and focused on managing uncertainties. Specifically, asset allocation is the key to constructing portfolios that:

Align major financial goals (such as retirement, education or lifestyle) with risk tolerances, which can help improve investors’ understanding of how their current investments support their objectives
Allocate across a variety of asset classes and risk exposures, reducing reliance on any one source of return—which should encourage and sustain investors’ confidence that the investment strategy is well prepared for financial success across a wide range of economic and market scenarios

Portfolio design

What are the factors that cause some investments to outperform their peers across multiple markets in given geographic regions? Our research shows that you start by diversifying by asset classes—including equity, fixed-income, and alternative-investment portfolios, and also consider what types of investment strategies work best across various phases of the economic cycle:

Expansion
Stress
Distress
Recovery

Projections regarding how the portfolio may react to each phase, along with an identiﬁcation of return sources, complete the analysis.

Investment manager selection

A diversified, multi-manager approach distinguishes us from most other investment companies. We're what’s called a “manager of managers." We use substantial global resources to search the world for leading investment managers with innovative investment ideas.

The manager selection process is an exacting, step-by-step approach that starts with identifying opportunities, inefficiencies, and diversified sources of returns in the markets. These managers are given specific asset management assignments to handle security selection for their portions of the portfolio.

Portfolio construction

As part of the active management process, we continually monitor the portfolio, seeking to ensure it progresses toward your goal. Our Investment Management Unit monitors for any need to adjust the lineup of managers or the relative weight of the various styles, depending on whether the economy is in recovery, expansion, or under duress. In addition to the ratio of stocks, bonds, and cash inside a portfolio, we also continuously review the portion of the portfolio assigned to each independent investment manager. This ability to adjust to economic changes is designed to lessen volatility of returns.

Tax management

Risk management

We dedicate significant resources to oversight of our investment managers, who focus exclusively on research, portfolio strategy, and manager monitoring. Managers are required to stick to their assigned investment styles to assure that desired levels of diversification are maintained.

Monitoring goes beyond performance. The manager lineup may be adjusted as the markets change or if a more compelling investment opportunity presents itself. But sometimes we'll change managers because of changes within the management firm itself. We continually evaluate managers against both qualitative and quantitative criteria:

Qualitative criteria include the manager’s people, process, and portfolios.
Quantitative data, like performance and style adherence, are tracked closely.

Helping protect futures.

There are different ways to hold—or custody—investors’ assets.

Your financial advisor has established a relationship with SEI Private Trust Company because we provide custody services that focus on accountability, safety, and security, creating a resilient and meaningful future for generational wealth to come.

Security of your assets in SEI Private Trust company: As a federally chartered limited-purpose savings association—not a bank or brokerage firm—your assets are segregated from SEI’s and are custodied in your name. This means SPTC creditors have no claim to your assets and cannot pledge, lend, or margin custodied assets.
Extensive oversight: SPTC adheres to extensive, federally mandated controls designed to prevent fraud. Regularly audited by independent and internal auditors and subject to routine examination by the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the safety of your assets are our priority.

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Important information

¹1986, "Determinants of Portfolio Performance", Gil Beebower, Gary Brinson, Brian Singer.

Information provided by Independent Advisor Solutions by SEI, a strategic business unit of SEI Investments Company (SEI). Neither SEI nor its subsidiaries are affiliated with your financial advisor. Investment services are provided by SEI Investments Management Corporation (SIMC) a wholly owned subsidiary of SEI. The Investment Management Unit (IMU) is a team within SIMC.

For those portfolios of individually managed securities, SIMC makes recommendations as to which manager will manage each asset class. Upon SIMC’s termination of a manager from the program, SIMC may recommend a replacement money manager and the investor has the option to move the account assets to another custodian or to change the manager. However, if your Advisor has selected any strategy indicating the strategy investment managers as a "Gateway" manager, SIMC has not reviewed or approved this Manager or its investment process and will not monitor the Manager or its strategy overtime. Your Advisor has independently selected the Manager and strategy and is the sole fiduciary responsible for such selection and ongoing oversight, including all compliance oversight.

Neither SEI nor its subsidiaries provide tax advice. Please note that (i) any discussion of U.S. tax matters contained in this communication cannot be used by you for the purpose of avoiding tax penalties; (ii) this communication was written to support the promotion or marketing of the matters addressed herein; and (iii) you should seek advice based on your particular circumstances from an independent tax advisor.

For those SEI Funds which employ the ‘manager of managers’ structure, SIMC has ultimate responsibility for the investment performance of the Funds due to its responsibility to oversee the sub-advisers and recommend their hiring, termination and replacement.

Custody services provided by SEI Private Trust Company (SPTC), a federally chartered limited purpose savings association. SPTC is a wholly owned subsidiary of SEI. Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal.

There can be no guarantee risk will be managed successfully nor that your goals will be achieved. Diversification does not guarantee profit.

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