The SEI Difference

• Your innovative ideas built your business. Our innovative ideas will help keep you ahead of the curve.

  We know you are different from your competition; SEI is different too. Innovative thinking and creative solutions are at the core of all we do. Supporting those differences and helping you distinguish yourself from the competition is our goal.

  As a global provider of outsourced financial services, we are dedicated to providing you with unique business solutions that make you operate better, faster and smarter.

  Market dislocations and the era of the investor have forever affected the asset management industry. Business is more complex than ever before. Investors demand more information. Regulators are more forceful. These are the new realities.

  Helping a diverse array of global financial organisations deal with these new realities, SEI provides comprehensive front-to-back-office solutions. Our clients include those running some of the world's most successful hedge and private equity funds, family offices, funds of funds, endowments, foundations and mutual funds.

  SEI is your strategic partner, providing you with the tools you need to navigate and succeed in the increasingly complex investment markets and international regulatory environment.

  We know how to make a difference in your business.

• Knowing that our clients' needs can change with any shift in the market, we put our furniture on wheels so that we can quickly rearrange our workspaces to accommodate projects, team needs and client-specific requirements. Hanging from our ceilings are spiralling cables called "pythons" that provide power and mobility to each workstation.

  So what does that mean for you? This physical design gives employees a clear line of sight and face-to-face access to management and to each other so we can be responsive to your daily needs and challenges. Because there are no barriers, it reinforces transparency and personal accountability and encourages collaboration in everything we do.

  This open arrangement, which includes no cubicles, private offices or closed break rooms, is echoed throughout all of SEI's offices, and the transparent and innovative culture that it creates extends into your offices as well. Clients view us as a global extension of their businesses, which gives them full transparency and access to all of SEI's experts and innovation at all times.

• Return on Operations is about providing you with better analytical tools and data quality in support of trade execution, portfolio analysis, and investment compliance. It drives our quest for finding more efficient ways to improve audit and accounting processes. It enables more meaningful and timely reporting to your investors.

  The ways in which our clients gain Return on Operations are as diverse as they are.

  Return on Operations is ultimately about achieving more.

• With our technology, you can expect operational efficiency and accuracy. You also gain an operational environment that uses technology to reinforce a culture of communication, compliance and risk containment.

  SEI's approach to technology is holistic and forward-thinking. We understand that your unique business requires unique systems. Our business is to make certain you have those systems.

  We take an open-architecture approach to evaluating systems instead of having one technology solution across all asset classes or products. Technology needs to accommodate your current needs and be flexible enough to anticipate your future plans. We follow industry best practices, but are open-minded in terms of choice of systems and in how we build and maintain your technology solutions.

  Our internal experts ensure that we fully understand the technologies in the marketplace and their strengths and weaknesses. We also understand how they work together and can be combined to your best advantage.

  We aim to provide you with a seamless solution that allows your daily operations and investor relations to run smoothly and in line with industry best practices. We accomplish this by providing you with the best technology available and properly integrating our systems in accordance with your needs now and in the future.

• The foundation of your solution is an open-architecture platform with best-of-breed technology. By SEI evaluating and selecting from the best components and technology available in the marketplace, you gain a flexible, scalable offering that adapts as your business grows and changes. We are well-equipped to accommodate many different structures, including UCITS, QIFs, collective investment trusts, U.S.-registered '40 Act funds, exchange-traded funds, hedge and private equity vehicles, separately managed and institutional private client accounts and anything in between.

  Layered throughout our services is a dedicated focus on risk management, compliance and thought leadership. SEI's culture of compliance means that we not only adopt stringent processes and controls within our own systems, but we also provide you with tools, guidance and best-practice recommendations.

  Our ComplianceAdvantage program assists CCOs of US-based funds and supports the increasingly rigorous compliance agendas managers now must have in place. This is strongly tied in with our thought leadership program—the SEI Knowledge Partnership—which provides your team with actionable intelligence and guidance on the critical issues shaping the investment management industry.

• Our clients have come to depend on us to provide the operational stability for their current businesses, while simultaneously helping them lay the groundwork for moving smoothly to the next level. Particularly in volatile and uncharted waters, experience matters.

  Our wealth of experience and expertise as a global operational outsourcing partner can help drive your business forward. We are the right choice for servicing your front, middle and back offices, or any combination of the three, for the asset management business you have today and the one you want ten years from now.

  We tore down the walls so that you could come in and grow.