Active portfolio construction and management

We construct multi-manager portfolios that seek to reduce risk and enhance returns. Our portfolio construction process offers diversification across the entire portfolio structure, including:

• Asset and sub-asset classes 
• Manager styles
• Geography
• Individual securities 

We establish relative return and risk expectations for portfolios over the medium and long term. Through diversification – and a framework for manager selection and allocation/sizing – our goal is to construct a fund with lower relative risk than the individual underlying managers.

Manager and timing allocation

Our strategic view of return sources is our blueprint in the manager allocation process. We allocate managers based on:

• The level of risk inherent in a manager’s investment strategy
• The manager’s particular array of sources of excess returns
• The current macroeconomic environment, as well as our expectations for the future one

Because changing market conditions and active management decisions made by investment managers can alter the portfolio’s characteristics over time, we adjust allocations to investment managers (and the weight allocated to them) from time to time to account for this particular risk.

Past performance is not an indication of future performance. Investments in SEI Funds are generally medium to long-term investments. The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up. Investors may get back less than the original amount invested.