Regulated Alternative Funds: The New Conventional - SEI

REGULATED ALTERNATIVE FUNDS: THE NEW CONVENTIONAL
About SEI
SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) is a leading global provider of investment processing, fund processing, and investment
management business outsourcing solutions that help corporations, financial institutions, financial advisors, and
ultra-high-net-worth families create and manage wealth. As of September 30, 2011, through its subsidiaries and
partnerships in which the company has a significant interest, SEI manages or administers $395 billion in mutual
fund and pooled assets or separately managed assets, including $162 billion in assets under management and
$233 billion in client assets under administration. For more information, visit www.seic.com.
SEI’s Investment Manager Services division provides comprehensive operational outsourcing solutions to support
investment managers globally across a range of registered and unregistered fund structures, diverse investment
strategies and jurisdictions. With expertise covering traditional and alternative investment vehicles, the division
applies customized operating services, industry-leading technologies, and practical business and regulatory insights
to each client’s business objectives. SEI’s resources enable clients to meet the demands of the marketplace and
sharpen business strategies by focusing on their core competencies. The division has been recently recognized
by HFMWeek as “Most Innovative Fund Administrator (Over $30bn AUA)” and “Best Funds of Hedge Funds
Administrator (Over $30bn AUA)” in both the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, SEI has been recognized as “Service
Provider of the Year” by the Money Management Institute, among other industry awards.
The SEI Knowledge Partnership is an ongoing source of action-oriented business intelligence and guidance for SEI’s
investment manager clients. It helps clients understand the issues that will shape future business conditions, keep
abreast of changing best practices, and develop more competitive business strategies. The Partnership is an initiative
of SEI’s Investment Manager Services division.
About Strategic Insight
Begun in 1986, Strategic Insight is a competitive intelligence source for the investment management industry,
providing clients with in-depth studies, consultation, and electronic decision support systems. SI assists over
250 organizations worldwide, including the largest mutual fund management companies operating in the U.S. and
the largest insurance companies serving the VA business. SI clients are responsible for about 90% of all U.S.
mutual fund assets. Strategic Insight also helps over 60 of the world’s largest asset managers expand in Europe and
Asia. Simfund, SI’s proprietary databases of mutual fund, ETF and VA information, are the most comprehensive in
the industry and integrate data on historical assets, net flows, performance information, fees and expenses, and
many more metrics. Strategic Insight has offices in New York, Boston, London, Hong Kong, and Melbourne.
For more information, visit our home at www.sionline.com. SI’s parent, Asset International, is an information
provider to financial-services institutions, including asset managers, global pensions, and others.
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