To help investment managers compete and succeed in an environment of escalating challenges, risks and complexity, SEI Investment Manager Services division provides the sophisticated operating capabilities and services needed to optimise their business performance across key product structures, asset classes and domiciles. Alternative and traditional asset managers worldwide currently entrust over USD1 trillion in assets with us.

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PAPER: Back to the future

PAPER: Back to the future

During the second half of 2021, and in collaboration with ANZU Research, Preqin, and Global Fund Media, SEI surveyed 160 participants – 79 hedge fund managers (General Partners, or GPs) and 81 investors (Limited Partners, or LPs) – to gather and compare their perspectives, get a glimpse of the future, and pinpoint threats and opportunities within the hedge fund industry…

INNOVATION

‘Uberisation’: Why ride-hailing app could spark a “re-engineering” of hedge funds and the asset management industry

‘Uberisation’: Why ride-hailing app could spark a “re-engineering” of hedge funds and the asset management industry

A new deep-dive study by SEI examines how the fund management industry’s business chains could become increasingly atomised into disparate networks of hubs and suppliers thanks to advances in tech, potentially mirroring Uber’s sweeping disruption of the cab-hire industry.

INNOVATION

WHITE PAPER – Uberisation 2.0: The Exponential Pull of Innovation

WHITE PAPER – Uberisation 2.0: The Exponential Pull of Innovation

In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes – Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Twitterisation, and Uberisation – to provide an up-to-date picture of the innovations occurring in our industry today. Over the next few months SEI will share its findings and recent developments for each theme. Next up: Uberisation…

PODCAST

PODCAST: Amazonisation 2.0: Asset management and the upside of disruption

PODCAST: Amazonisation 2.0: Asset management and the upside of disruption

Retail platforms, led by Amazon, have revolutionized how we behave as consumers and placed convenience and quality of customer service at the centre of the model. How can asset management firms take lessons from this and could there be a way forward for them to adopt more of a platform-centric way to providing fund services? And in doing so, harness the power of the platform to re-think fund distribution and bring a sense of order to the highly fragmented, chaotic nature of global asset management? 

INNOVATION

‘Twitterisation’: How social media is reshaping asset management firms' business models

‘Twitterisation’: How social media is reshaping asset management firms' business models

Social media networks are now “critical communications channels and sources of real-time data” for investment managers, presenting myriad opportunities – and potentially huge risks – to firms, and dramatically reshaping the way they trade portfolios, build investment ideas and communicate with clients, according to a major new study by SEI.

INNOVATION

WHITE PAPER – Twitterisation 2.0: The Exponential Pull of Innovation

WHITE PAPER – Twitterisation 2.0: The Exponential Pull of Innovation

In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes – Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Uberisation and Twitterisation – to provide an up-to-date picture of the innovations occurring in our industry today. Over the next few months SEI will share its findings and recent developments for each theme. Next up: Twitterisation…