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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.

The division has been recently recognized by Buy-Side Technology as “Best Fund Administrator,” by Hedge Funds World Middle East as “Best Service Provider” and by HFMWeek as “Best Single Manager Hedge Fund Administrator (Over $30B AUA)” in the U.S. and “Best Administrator – Technology Provider” in Europe.

Philip Masterson

Senior Vice President & Managing Director, SEI’s Investment Manager Services Division

Phil Masterson is a Senior Vice President and Managing Director of SEI’s Investment Manager Services division. In this role, Mr. Masterson is primarily responsible for the division’s international strategy, business development, client service, and delivery.

Mr. Masterson formerly served as President of the Advisors' Inner Circle Funds (AIC), SEI’s $20 billion turnkey mutual fund platform. As President of the AIC funds, Mr. Masterson led all aspects of the funds’ daily operational, legal and compliance activities as well as product development matters for the trust. Mr. Masterson also designed, established and led a distribution team focused on growing the AIC funds through various intermediary channels. To date, this team has directly raised or influenced the placement of over $1 billion. Mr. Masterson joined SEI from Citco Mutual Fund Services, where he served as general counsel. Prior to Citco, he served as vice president and senior counsel at OppenheimerFunds.

He frequently speaks at industry conferences and has published articles in the International Investor, Institutional Investor, Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, Global Assets, Investment Lawyer, Morgan Lewis Hedge Fund Desktop Book, The Journal of Index Investing, and Institutional Investor’s Guide to Exchange Traded Funds and Indexing Innovations.

Education

Mr. Masterson received his J.D. from Creighton University School of Law, cum laude. He received his master’s in securities and financial regulation from Georgetown University with distinction.