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Strategic portfolios

This is a marketing communication.

The SEI Strategic Portfolios provide a core investment solution designed to help meet a wide variety of investors’ financial goals.

The Strategic Portfolios help you and your clients to take an objective investment approach with the aim of maximising returns, limiting volatility, and managing investment risk.

In one fund, they deliver a full portfolio solution that encompasses asset allocation, manager selection, manager allocation, and risk management, democratizing the investment solution and allowing you to focus on your clients and the achievement of their investment goals.

Inside our Strategic Portfolios

The Portfolios are highly diversified and are constructed using SEI’s Asset Class Funds as well as third-party funds, and manager pools.

Each asset class building block is comprised of sub-advisors, often with complementary investment styles selected and continuously monitored by SEI’s investment committee. Additionally, the asset allocation within each Strategic Portfolio is reviewed and rebalanced by SEI on a continuous basis, which helps to ensure that the Strategic Portfolios do not stray away from their objectives.

The combination of building blocks in our Strategic Portfolios results in a highly diversified, institutional quality investment solution comprising multiple funds and thousands of underlying investment holdings.

Each portfolio is structured as a single net asset value (‘NAV’) fund, which means that gains made on the sale of any underlying funds within a Strategic Portfolio are not subject to capital gains tax.

Five key benefits

  1. Unique goals-based approach – Our approach means that success is measured against a range of investor goals and not against benchmarks alone.
  2. High level of diversification – The asset allocation of each portfolio is designed to be well-diversified across up to six asset classes—equity, fixed income, inflation sensitive, income, liquidity, and absolute return.
  3. Access to some of the world’s best managers – Our team of more than 100 analysts located worldwide selects some of the best from the entire universe of investment products, including institutional and boutique managers not usually available to the retail market.
  4. Continuous portfolio management – Our analysts continuously monitor each manager’s philosophy, process, people, and performance. SEI’s sophisticated technology enables us to monitor the portfolio holdings and trades to ensure that the portfolios are aligned with the overall strategy.
  5. Aligned to investor risk profiles – Designed to cover a spectrum of investor risk profiles, the portfolios can be mapped to some of the market-leading risk profiling tools.

Our Strategic Portfolios extend across the spectrum of risk profiles and investment objectives, are ISA-eligible, and are available to investors all over the world. The suite of seven fund strategies falls into two groups: Stability-Focused and Growth-Focused.

  • Stability Focused Strategic Portfolios – designed for investors who seek to protect against losses while working towards a comfortable level of growth.
    • Defensive Strategy
    • Conservative Strategy
    • Moderate Strategy
  • Growth Focused Strategic Portfolios – designed for investors whose goal is to steadily accumulate assets at a rate consistent with their risk tolerances relative to their goals.
    • Core Strategy
    • Balanced Strategy
    • Growth Strategy
    • Aggressive Strategy

SEI Euro Strategic Portfolios

Available to most investors who reside in European countries.

  • Euro Conservative Fund
    • Aims to protect against the risk of a significant loss of capital and provide the opportunity for a conservative level of capital growth and income.
  • Euro Core Fund
    • Provides the opportunity for capital growth and income in line with global equity and fixed-income markets whilst seeking to manage the respective risks.
  • Euro Moderate Fund
    • Provides the opportunity for a moderate level of capital growth and income while lowering the risk of a significant loss of capital.
  • Euro Balanced Fund
    • Provides capital growth and income in line with global equity and fixed-income markets whilst seeking to manage the respective risks.
  • Euro Growth Fund
    • Provides capital growth and risk exposure predominantly in line with global equity markets.
  • Euro Aggressive Fund
    • Provides capital growth and risk exposure in line with global equity markets.

SEI Global Strategic Portfolios 

Available to most investors who reside outside of Europe.

  • Global Conservative Fund
    • Aims to protect against the risk of loss of capital while providing the opportunity for a conservative level of capital growth and income.
  • Global Core Fund
    • Provides the opportunity for capital growth and income in line with global equity and fixed-income markets whilst seeking to manage the respective risks.
  • Global Balanced Fund
    • Provides capital growth and income in line with global equity and fixed-income markets whilst seeking to manage the respective risks.
  • Global Growth Fund
    • Provides capital growth and risk exposure predominantly in line with global equity markets.
  • Global Aggressive Fund
    • Provides capital growth and risk in line with global equity markets.

Important Information:

This is a Marketing Communication. Investment solutions provided by SEI Investments (Europe) Ltd (“SIEL”), a registered investment advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of SEI Investments Company. Investing involves risk including possible loss of principal.

The SEI Strategic Portfolios are a series of the SEI Funds and may invest in a combination of other SEI and Third-Party Funds as well as in additional manager pools based on asset classes. These manager pools are pools of assets from the respective Strategic Portfolio separately managed by Portfolio Managers which are monitored by SEI. One cannot directly invest in these manager pools.

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SEI Investments (Europe) Limited acts as distributor of collective investment schemes which are authorised in Ireland pursuant to the UCITS regulations and which are collectively referred to as the “SEI Funds” in these materials. These umbrella funds are incorporated in Ireland as limited liability investment companies and are managed by SEI Investments Global Limited, an affiliate of the distributor. SEI Investments (Europe) Limited utilises the SEI funds in its asset management programme to create asset allocation strategies for its clients. Any reference in this document to any SEI funds should not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell these securities or to engage in any related investment management services. Recipients of this information who intend to apply for shares in any SEI fund are reminded that any such application must be made solely on the basis of the information contained in the prospectus (which includes a schedule of fees and charges and maximum commission available). Commissions and incentives may be paid and if so, would be included in the overall costs.) Please refer to our latest Prospectus (which includes information in relation to the use of derivatives and the risks associated with the use of derivative instruments), Key Investor Information Document, Summary of UCITS Shareholder rights (which includes a summary of the rights that shareholders of our funds have) and the latest Annual or Semi-Annual Reports for more information on our funds, which can be located at Fund Documents. And you should read the terms and conditions contained in the Prospectus (including the risk factors) before making any investment decision. The UCITS may be de-registered for sale in an EEA jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of the UCITS Directive.

The funds may invest substantially in other funds. The risks described below may apply to the underlying assets of the products into which they invest: Investment in equity securities in general are subject to market risks that may cause their prices to fluctuate over time; fixed income securities are subject to credit risk and may also be subject to price volatility and may be sensitive to interest rate fluctuations; bonds or money market instruments are sensitive to inflation rate trends; Absolute return investments utilise aggressive investment techniques which may increase the volatility of returns. If the correlation between absolute return investments and other asset classes within the fund increases, absolute return investments’ expected diversification benefits may be decreased.

Past performance does not predict future returns. 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. Fluctuations or movements in exchange rates may cause the value of underlying international investments to go up or down. Investors may get back less than the original amount invested. SEI funds may use derivative instruments which may be used for hedging purposes and/or investment purposes.

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