SIMC, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registered investment adviser, located at One Freedom Valley Drive, Oaks, PA 19456, serves as the investment adviser to the Funds. As of September 30, 2014, SIMC had approximately $147.17 billion in assets under management.
The Funds are managed by SIMC and one or more sub-advisers (each a “Sub-Adviser” and together, the “Sub-Advisers”). SIMC acts as a “manager of managers” of the Funds and, subject to the oversight of the Board of Trustees of the Trust, is responsible for:
— researching and recommending to the Board of Trustees, the hiring, termination and replacement of Sub-Advisers;
— allocating, on a continuous basis, assets of a Fund among the Sub-Advisers (to the extent a Fund has more than one sub-adviser);
— monitoring and evaluating each Sub-Adviser’s performance;
— overseeing the Sub-Advisers to ensure compliance with the Funds’ investment objectives, policies and restrictions; and
— monitoring each Sub-Adviser’s adherence to its investment style.
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SIMC acts as manager of managers for the Funds pursuant to an exemptive order obtained from the SEC. The exemptive order permits SIMC, with the approval of the Board, to retain unaffiliated
sub-advisers for the Funds without submitting the sub-advisory agreements to a vote of the applicable Funds’ shareholders. Among other things, the exemptive order permits the non-disclosure of amounts payable by SIMC under such sub-advisory agreements. As a manager of managers, SIMC is ultimately
responsible for the investment performance of the Funds. The Board of Trustees supervises SIMC and the
Sub-Advisers and establishes policies that they must follow in their management activities. SIMC sources, analyzes, selects and monitors a wide array of Sub-Advisers across multiple asset
classes. Differentiating manager skill from market-generated returns is one of SIMC’s primary objectives, as it seeks to identify Sub-Advisers that can deliver attractive investment results. SIMC believes that a full assessment of qualitative as well as quantitative factors is required to identify truly skilled managers. In carrying out this function, SIMC forms forward-looking expectations regarding how a Sub-Adviser will execute a given investment mandate; defines environments in which the strategy is likely to outperform or underperform; and seeks to identify the relevant factors behind a Sub-Adviser’s performance. It also utilizes this analysis to identify catalysts that would lead SIMC to reevaluate its view of a Sub-Adviser. SIMC then constructs a portfolio that seeks to maximize the risk-adjusted rate of return by finding a proper level of diversification between sources of excess return (at an asset class level) and the investment managers implementing them . The allocation to a given investment manager is based on SIMC’s analysis of the manager’s particular array of alpha sources, the current macroeconomic
environment, expectations about the future macroeconomic environment, and the level of risk inherent in a particular manager’s investment strategy. SIMC measures and allocates to Sub-Advisers based on risk allocations in an attempt to ensure that one manager does not dominate the risk of a multi-manager, multi-return-source Fund.
The following portfolio managers are primarily responsible for the oversight of the Sub-Advisers as described above, including recommending the hiring and termination of such Sub-Advisers.
Gregory L. McIntire, CFA serves as portfolio manager for the Large Cap, Large Cap Value, Large Cap Growth, Tax-Managed Large Cap, S&P 500 Index, Small Cap, Small Cap Value, Small Cap Growth, Tax- Managed Small/Mid Cap, Mid-Cap and Real Estate Funds. Greg McIntire has served as a Portfolio Manager on the U.S. Large Cap Equity team at SIMC since 2009. In his preceding role, Mr. McIntire served as the Head of Risk Management within SIMC. Mr. McIntire holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is a CFA charterholder.
Jared M. Leonard serves as portfolio manager for the Real Estate Fund. Mr. Leonard joined SEI in 2007 and joined SIMC’s investment team in 2011 as an analyst. Mr. Leonard holds Bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and economics from Virginia Tech.
Eugene Barbaneagra, CFA serves as portfolio manager for the U.S. Managed Volatility, Global Managed Volatility and Tax-Managed Managed Volatility Funds. Mr. Barbaneagra serves as a Portfolio Manager within the Investment Management Unit. He is responsible for portfolio strategy of US and Global Managed Volatility Funds and a number of core Global Equity funds. Prior to joining SEI in 2002, Mr. Barbaneagra worked with the Vanguard Group. Mr. Barbaneagra earned his Bachelor of Science degrees in Business Administration/Finance and Management of Information Systems from Drexel University. He also earned his Master of Science in Risk Management and Financial Engineering from Imperial College London. He is CFA Charterholder and a member of UK Society of Investment Professionals.
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Richard Bamford serves as portfolio manager for the Enhanced Income, Core Fixed Income and U.S. Fixed Income Funds. Mr. Bamford serves as a Portfolio Manager for the Fixed Income Team within SIMC’s Investment Management Unit. He is responsible for investment grade debt and municipal bond portfolios. His duties include manager analysis and selection, strategy development and enhancement as well as investment research. Richard has over 19 years of investment experience in investment management. Prior to joining SEI in 1999, Richard worked as a Municipal Credit Analyst for Vanguard. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics/Finance and Accounting from the University of Scranton and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from St. Joseph’s University. Steven Treftz serves as assistant portfolio manager for the Enhanced Income Fund. Mr. Treftz joined SIMC in 2012, and is responsible for the oversight, monitoring and manager selection for the Investment Management Unit’s Multi Asset and Short Duration strategies. Prior to his employment at SEI, he was employed by Citi Private Bank where he was responsible for maintaining the firm’s research opinions on third party international, global and emerging market equity managers. Prior to his employment at Citi Private Bank Mr. Treftz employed by Lockwood Advisors, Inc. where he was responsible for the management of the one of the firm’s mutual fund/ETF wrap portfolio programs. Mr. Treftz earned a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Risk Management from Temple University. Mr. Treftz is also a CFA Charterholder and member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.
Erin Garrett serves as assistant portfolio manager for the Core Fixed Income and U.S. Fixed Income Funds. Ms. Garrett serves as an Assistant Portfolio Manager for the SEI US Investment Grade fixed income strategies within SIMC’s Investment Management Unit. In this capacity, she primarily oversees daily cash flows, portfolio exposures, portfolio risks, and performance attribution. In her preceding role, Erin was an Analyst on the Global Fixed Income team responsible for in-depth due diligence on existing and prospective investment managers for SEI’s US fixed-income portfolios. Ms. Garrett earned a
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Finance from the Villanova University School of Business and is currently pursuing her MBA at Villanova University.
David S. Aniloff, CFA serves as portfolio manager for the High Yield Bond Fund. Mr. Aniloff joined SIMC in 2000 and currently serves as a senior portfolio manager on the Global High Yield Team. Mr. Aniloff was also a key developer of SIMC’s structured credit solutions and currently serves as co-portfolio manager with responsibility for security selection and portfolio construction. In addition, Mr. Aniloff has been integral in the development and implementation of SIMC’s proprietary structured credit monitoring technology. Mr. Aniloff also provides expertise and support for SIMC’s suite of Global High Yield Funds inclusive of manager evaluation and selection as well as risk management. Mr. Aniloff has held his current position with SIMC for more than 5 years.
Radoslav Koitchev serves as portfolio manager for the Long/Short Alternative Fund. Mr. Koitchev has served as a Portfolio Manager within the Investment Management Team for SIMC since April 2014. Mr. Koitchev joined SEI in June of 2009.
Although the Real Return and Multi-Strategy Alternative Funds are able to use a multi-manager approach whereby each Fund’s assets would be allocated among multiple Sub-Advisers, each Fund’s assets currently are managed directly by SIMC. SIMC may, in the future, determine to act as a manager of managers with respect to some or all of the Funds’ assets and allocate Fund assets to one or more Sub-Advisers, upon approval from the Board of Trustees. In addition, SIMC may also directly manage a portion of the High Yield Bond Fund’s assets in a manner that it believes will help the Fund achieve its investment goals.
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H I G H Y I E L D B O N D F U N D :
SIMC serves as the investment adviser to the High Yield Bond Fund. David S. Aniloff, CFA, may, to a limited extent, directly manage a portion of the assets in the High Yield Bond Fund in a manner that SIMC believes will help the High Yield Bond Fund achieve its investment goals.
R E A L R E T U R N F U N D :
SIMC serves as the investment adviser to the Real Return Fund. Sean Simko and Tim Sauermelch manage the assets of the Real Return Fund in a manner that they believe will help the Real Return Fund achieve its investment goals. Mr. Simko has served as Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Managing Director of the SEI Fixed Income Portfolio Management Team for SIMC since 2005. Mr. Simko is
responsible for the oversight of the SEI Fixed Income Portfolio Management Team’s overall investment process and management of daily trading. Prior to joining SEI, he was Vice President and Portfolio Manager for Weiss, Peck & Greer Investments and was responsible for managing approximately $7 billion in assets through various strategies, including short duration, TIPS, structured products, futures and currencies. Mr. Simko earned a Master of Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Slippery Rock University and is a ChFC charterholder. Mr. Sauermelch is a Portfolio Manager with the SEI Fixed Income Portfolio Management Team. In this capacity, he is responsible for the management of fixed income portfolios including evaluating current market opportunities and providing fundamental and relative value assessments across various fixed income asset class and sectors. Portfolios managed by
Mr. Sauermelch consist of US government securities, inflation linkers, investment grade corporate debt and floating-rate instruments. Mr. Sauermelch is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and The CFA Society of Philadelphia. He earned a Masters of Business Administration with a
concentration in Finance from Villanova University and graduated summa cum laude from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and a minor in Economics.
Mr. Sauermelch also holds the FINRA Series 65 license.
M U LT I - S T R A T E G Y A LT E R N A T I V E F U N D :
SIMC serves as the investment adviser to the Multi-Strategy Alternative Fund. Srdjan Teslic manages the assets of the Multi-Strategy Alternative Fund in a manner that he believes will help the Multi-Strategy Alternative Fund achieve its investment goals. Mr. Teslic joined SIMC in 2009 and currently serves as Senior Investment Analyst of the Alternative Investments Team. Prior to joining SIMC, Mr. Teslic spent 12 years in hedge fund research, risk management, and portfolio construction roles at several institutions. Most recently, he was Senior Hedge Fund Research Manager with BNP Paribas’ Fund Derivatives Group. He was previously a Risk Manager at Parker Global Strategies, LLC fund of hedge funds in Stamford, Connecticut. Prior to Parker Global Strategies, LLC, he was a Senior Research Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Ferro Capital LLC, where he oversaw manager research and selection across all strategies, developed the firm’s analytical and risk management tools and was a member of the firm’s Investment Committee.