Our commitment to higher education organizations

Higher education organizations require a solid financial footing. It's critical for investment committee members to spend time establishing policies, understanding investment opportunities, and strategically setting goals.

It’s why many organizations like yours have already made the decision to delegate day-to-day responsibilities for managing investment pools. They're partnering with investment outsourcing organizations to take advantage of their custom strategic advice, technology, and resources.

We offer an efficient process with a clear understanding of how investment decisions impact your overall organization. 

As part of our program, we: 

• Take responsibility for investment manager selection, monitoring, and reporting
• Build goals-focused portfolios that include some of the leading public and alternative investment managers
• Stress test decisions for impact on financial metrics and access to capital markets for private educational institutions already managing asset pools within one governance structure
• Monitor fixed income exposures and state mandated metrics for public educational institutions with separate governance for operating and endowed assets

The infrastructure to support you

We understand the unique needs of educational institutions. Our infrastructure as an OCIO allows us to offer valuable committee support like:

• Spending policy development
• Fundraising support
• Board and committee training
• Donor marketing and communications
• Legislative and regulatory education

Working hard for our higher education clients

We keep our fingers on the pulse of best practices in the educational community, tracking trends and challenges through our primary research and active involvement in industry groups like AGB, CASE and NACUBO.

Here's how we help our higher education clients:

• Enterprise risk approach to asset allocation and alternative investments, with increased access to managers and insight into how decisions impact the portfolio and organization
• Education and analysis on potentially decreasing administrative fees over time
• Adjusted governance process with increased transparency and streamlined decision making
• Total enterprise approach, designed to ensure the health of the university’s balance sheet

This information is provided by SEI Investments Management Corporation (SIMC), a registered investment adviser and wholly owned subsidiary of SEI Investments Company.