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DATE

Oct. 21, 2026

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Head of Investor Relations and Treasurer - Brad Burke
• Chief Executive Officer - Ryan Hicke
• Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer - Sean Denham
• Chief Information Officer - Kristie Edling-Day
• Executive Vice President - Michael Lane
• Executive Vice President - Phil McCabe
• Executive Vice President - Mike Peterson
• Executive Vice President - Sneha Shah
• Executive Vice President, CEO of SEI International, and Global Head of Private Banking Business - Sanjay Sharma
• Executive Vice President - Amy Sliwinski

TAKEAWAYS

• Revenue -- $662.0 million, representing a 14% increase driven by sales conversions and increased client capital deployment.
• Adjusted Diluted EPS -- $1.64, a 24% increase from $1.32 in the third quarter of 2025, reflecting higher margins and a reduced share count.
• Net Sales Events -- $46.8 million in the third quarter, contributing to a year-to-date total of $157.4 million that exceeds the highest full-year results in company history.
• Investment Managers Segment Revenue -- $235.8 million, a 14% increase driven by strong demand for outsourcing solutions from alternative asset managers.
• Private Banks Segment Revenue -- $160.4 million, up 11% due to balanced contributions from professional services, platform expansion, and international asset management.
• Investment Advisors Segment Revenue -- $185.4 million, representing 26% growth primarily due to the acquisition of Stratos.
• Institutional Investors Segment Revenue -- $70.6 million, a 2% decline resulting from previous client outflows.
• Adjusted Operating Margin -- 31%, an increase of 260 basis points versus the third quarter of 2025.
• Assets Under Management -- $606.4 billion at quarter end, remaining essentially flat as market movements and net flows were little changed.
• Assets Under Administration -- $1.41 trillion, increasing 4% during the quarter due to the funding of recently won mandates in the Investment Managers business.
• Stratos Financial Contribution -- $23.3 million in revenue and $4.4 million in operating profit, including $7.3 million of acquired intangible amortization.
• ETF Assets Under Management -- $9 billion, growing from $4 billion in the prior year as adoption of active and fund-to-fund strategies increased.
• Share Repurchases -- $215.1 million, with the company buying back two million shares at an average price of $105.24 per share.
• Incentive Compensation Accrual -- $6.4 million, an adjustment based on strong year-to-date performance that reduced adjusted operating margins by approximately 100 basis points.
• NSC Termination Charge -- $32.5 million, a one-time expense recognized in other expenses related to the mutual agreement to end the purchase of a Mexican subsidiary of Stratos.
• LSV Asset Management Outflows -- $5.3 billion in net outflows during the quarter, which offset strong investment performance to bring ending balances to $116.1 billion.
• Retail Transfer Agency Run Rate -- $10 million, the expected combined revenue from transfer agency and fund administration by the end of 2027.
• Singapore Office Opening -- September 2026, launched to provide a platform for supporting clients with operations in the Asia Pacific region.
• Cash and Cash Equivalents -- $399.8 million at quarter end, providing financial flexibility for ongoing strategic growth initiatives.
• Stock Repurchase Authorization -- $800 million increase approved by the Board of Directors, bringing total available authorization to approximately $926 million.

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RISKS

• Denham stated, "These investment gains can be volatile," noting that net gains on investments in variable interest entities declined by $8 million compared to the second quarter.
• Denham warned that "the timing of when that progress translates into financial results remains difficult to predict," regarding the institutional business segment pipeline.
• Management reported negative $2.3 million in net sales events for the institutional investors segment during the quarter.

SUMMARY

SEI Investments Company (SEIC +1.20%) reported record year-to-date sales results, surpassing previous full-year totals with a full quarter remaining in the fiscal year. Management reported that revenue growth was driven by conversions of prior sales and increased demand for outsourcing solutions, particularly among alternative asset managers who accounted for 90% of Investment Managers sales events. The company stated that its engagement model has transitioned from a vendor-based approach to enterprise-wide transformation partnerships, with total assets under management, administration, and advisement reaching $2.1 trillion. Growth was further supported by the integration of Stratos and the expansion of professional services across the private banking segment.

• AI Demand: CEO Hicke stated, "The only effect we are seeing is that AI has accelerated client interest in partnering with SEI."
• Enterprise Transformation: Hicke noted that the largest opportunities in the pipeline are now "comprehensive enterprise transformation initiatives" rather than simple platform replacements.
• ETF Growth Targets: Hicke indicated that the ETF business has "the potential to double again next year" following a triple-digit AUM increase in 2026.
• Private Banking Strategy: Sanjay Sharma indicated the segment is growing by helping existing clients through "SEI Data Cloud solution or with our professional services, even AI adoption."
• Operational Capacity: Phil McCabe stated that the company is "hiring as quickly as humanly possible" to manage the conversion of new mandates and fund launches.
• Institutional Focus: Management indicated a shift toward a targeted approach in the endowment, foundation, and healthcare spaces to improve top-line growth in the institutional segment.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

• AUA (Assets Under Administration): The total market value of all financial assets for which a company provides administrative services.
• AUM (Assets Under Management): The total market value of the investments that a person or entity handles on behalf of clients.
• CIT (Collective Investment Trust): A group of pooled trust accounts held by a bank or trust company.
• ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund): A type of investment fund and exchange-traded product that is traded on stock exchanges.
• IMS (Investment Managers Services): SEI's segment providing outsourcing services to investment managers.
• OCIO (Outsourced Chief Investment Officer): A service where an organization delegates the management of its investment portfolio to a third party.
• RIA (Registered Investment Advisor): A person or firm registered with a regulatory body to provide investment advice to clients.
• SMA (Separately Managed Account): A private portfolio of individual securities managed on a client's behalf by a professional money manager.
• SWP (SEI Wealth Platform): SEI's integrated technology and services solution for wealth management organizations.
• TA (Transfer Agency): A service that maintains records of registered shareholders for an organization.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to Brad Burke, Head of Investor Relations and Treasurer. Thank you, sir. You may begin.

Brad Burke: Thank you, and welcome everyone to SEI's third quarter 2026 earnings call. We appreciate you joining us today. On the call, we have Ryan Hicke, SEI's Chief Executive Officer, Sean Denham, our Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer, and members of our executive management team, including Kristie Edling-Day, Michael Lane, Phil McCabe, Mike Peterson, Sneha Shah, Sanjay Sharma, and Amy Sliwinski. Before we begin, I'd like to point out that our earnings press release and the presentation accompanying today's call can be found under the investor relations section of our website at seic.com. This call is being webcast live, and a replay will be available on the events and webcast page of our website.

With that, I'll now turn the call over to Ryan. Ryan?

Ryan Hicke: Thank you, Brad. Good afternoon, everyone. The results SEI delivered in the third quarter reinforce the conversations we have been having with this audience for the last couple of years, and they confirm why we had the conviction in the strategy we discussed at the investor day last year. The results provide repeatable evidence that the strategic changes we have made are showing up across the company. It also demonstrates that the nature of our client relationships have evolved. SEI is now engaging with clients at the top of the organization on more strategic issues and bringing a broader set of capabilities to the relationship.

In the third quarter, SEI reported revenue growth of 14%, adjusted operating profit growth of 25%, and adjusted EPS growth of 24% compared to the prior year. For some longer historical context, the adjusted EPS achieved in the third quarter is nearly 50% above where the company stood two years ago. Our growth continues to broaden across the company, with contributions from multiple businesses in both financial performance and sales activity. Speaking of sales events, third-quarter net events totaled $47 million, bringing our year-to-date total to $157 million. With a full quarter still remaining in the year, we have already exceeded the highest level of full-year sales results in the history of the company.

We're excited by the results and the trajectory of the business. Sean will walk through the results in more detail, but I want to spend a couple of minutes talking about what we're seeing in each of the businesses at a macro level. In IMS, demand remains strong, especially among large alternative asset managers. We continue to be the partner of choice for those looking for global scale, asset class breadth, and modern technology. What has become clear to us over the last 18 months is that SEI's reputation is one of our strongest competitive advantages. When firms evaluate outsourcing partners, they speak with our existing clients. They ask, "Who can execute? Who can handle complexity?

Who can support future growth?" They also ask, "Who has a client-centric culture and truly understands the nature of partnership?" Those conversations are opening new doors with some of the largest first-time outsourcers in the industry. We are also encouraged by the strong demand for solutions for retail efforts. We had a successful launch with our retail transfer agency, and our alts in CIT capability is showing momentum, with multiple clients launched in Q3 and more expected to fund shortly. Our private banking business delivered another strong quarter, and we expect sales activity to remain solid. Professional services is a key driver of this acceleration.

When I step back and look at why we have seen sales activity accelerate and why our pipelines are strong, professional services looks less like a separate offering in banking and more like the missing piece that is now complementing the SEI offering. This is a solution set that we believe has resonance across all of our client bases in the enterprise. What does that mean? Just a few years ago, our discussions with clients were driven entirely by the platform offering. "Here's the platform. Do you want to buy it?" When you do that, you box yourself in as a vendor.

Those client conversations have evolved into discussions around transformation, how to simplify technology environments, modernize operating models, increase client acquisition, improve the use of data, harness AI, and position for future growth. Clients are looking for a partner that can help them define the future state of their business. As a result, the largest opportunities in our pipeline are no longer just platform replacements. They are comprehensive enterprise transformation initiatives. On AI specifically, I understand there's been a lot of concern in the market about how AI might impact SEI. The only effect we are seeing is that AI has accelerated client interest in partnering with SEI.

It is driving more demand, not less, and we can point to multiple specific examples in our pipeline where this is the case. Turning to asset management business, the team has moved beyond reimagining and is building momentum in the execution phase. The progress we have seen reflects substantial effort around client segmentation, distribution, advisor engagement, pricing, product development, and new client acquisition. We're seeing stronger engagement with RIAs, improving activity across the institutional pipeline, and continued adoption of our ETF strategies, which now total more than $9 billion in AUM, up from only $4 billion just last year. We continue to invest in distribution, products, partnerships, and talent.

That includes the recent addition of Kristie Edling-Day as our new Chief Information Officer, bringing deep financial services and technology experience to help advance our technology and product strategy. We believe the business is moving in the right direction, and we expect that direction to continue improving. Also, our conviction in independent financial advice and the Stratos partnership increases every day. We got to see that firsthand at our recent advisor conference in Nashville, where more than 500 advisors, including Stratos advisors and their leadership team, came together with real enthusiasm about what we can all accomplish together.

After a year of working closely with Jeff and the Stratos team, we are even more confident that we chose the right partner to build alongside in the U.S. The combination is already creating new opportunities across both Stratos and SEI, and we believe there is substantially more we can accomplish together. Before concluding, I want to touch on profitability. Adjusted operating margins in the third quarter remained near record levels, and this was not driven by some short-sighted cost-cutting initiative. It is the result of building a more scalable business and pairing thoughtful investment with strong revenue growth. We believe that combination creates significant value for shareholders.

As I often say on these calls, an enormous thank you goes to our global workforce for their passion and their delivery, but also to our clients for their continued trust and partnership. In conclusion, the results this quarter are great, but in the words of Jelly Roll, "The windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror for a reason, because what's in front of you is so much more important than what's behind you." I have a lot of confidence in what underpins our results. Strong pipelines, enthusiastic clients, and a business that is becoming more capable and efficient with each passing day. Some people tell us SEI is back.

Well, to that, we say thank you, but we believe SEI hasn't even remotely defined who we will be yet. With that, I will turn the call over to Sean.

Sean Denham: Thank you, Ryan. Turning to slide four, SEI delivered another outstanding quarter. Ryan already covered the highlights, so I will focus on just a few items that affected results. The third quarter included one notable item within operating expenses. Given the strength of our results year to date and our outlook for the remainder of the year, we increased our incentive compensation accrual during the quarter. This adjustment reduced operating profit by $6 million and adjusted operating margins by roughly 100 basis points. While it impacted reported profitability in the quarter, it is ultimately a reflection of the strong performance being delivered across the business. Sustaining that performance requires the best people and a commitment to rewarding them.

Adjusted EPS declined by $0.02 compared to the second quarter, driven by two items. First, net gains on investments in variable interest entities declined by $8 million from the second quarter. These investment gains can be volatile, and Q3 reflects what we believe is a more normalized level of contribution. The second item is the incentive compensation adjustment I just discussed. Excluding that adjustment, adjusted operating profit would have increased approximately 4% and adjusted operating margins would have expanded by roughly 20 basis points compared to Q2. The quarter also benefited from a slightly lower effective tax rate than normal, driven by elevated employee stock option exercises after SEI shares reached a record high.

In addition, GAAP net income was reduced by $32.5 million recorded in other expenses related to our mutual agreement with Stratos to terminate the planned acquisition of NSC, its Mexican RIA. Please turn to slide five for the business segment results. SEI's strong financial performance was broad-based. Investment managers led SEI's organic growth with revenue and operating profit, both increasing by 14% compared to the prior year. Absent the elevated compensation accrual, operating profit would have increased by 17%. Growth was driven by the conversion of prior sales success into revenue and our clients continuing to deploy capital at healthy levels.

Private banking also posted another strong quarter, with revenue increasing 11% and operating profit increasing 38% compared to the prior year. That performance reflects strong operating leverage, with revenue growth driven by balanced contributions from professional services, platform expansion, and international asset management. Advisors benefited from the acquisition of Stratos, which contributed $23 million of revenue and $4 million of operating profit during the quarter, including $7 million of amortization. Stratos generated $11.5 million of EBITDA in Q3, an increase of 17% from the second quarter. Stratos also completed a tuck-in acquisition and onboarded several advisors during the quarter, with additional opportunities in the pipeline.

We continue to see interest from long-tenured Stratos and SEI advisors seeking succession and continuity solutions, creating another avenue for growth across the combined platform. Excluding Stratos, advisors revenue increased 10% and operating profit increased 7% compared to the prior year. Results benefited from higher market values and onboarding clients won over the last year. Institutional revenue declined 2% compared to the prior year, but increased 1% sequentially from the second quarter. Pipelines in our institutional business are improving, although the timing of when that progress translates into financial results remains difficult to predict. Moving to slide six, adjusted operating margins increased 260 basis points compared to last year.

Sequentially, adjusted operating margins declined 80 basis points due to the higher compensation accrual. Excluding that impact, adjusted operating margins would have increased approximately 20 basis points. We achieved those margin levels while continuing to invest in the business. That includes adding senior talent across data, AI, professional services, and asset management, along with continued investment in technology and product development. We also opened our Singapore office in September, extending our global footprint and creating a platform to support clients with operations and growth ambitions across Asia Pacific. On a sequential basis, excluding incentive compensation, private banking and institutional both generated modest margin improvements.

IMS margins were essentially flat, and advisors' margins declined approximately 50 basis points, primarily reflecting investments in technology to support the Stratos advisor experience. Turning to slide seven, net sales events totaled $47 million, the second highest quarter in SEI's history, with recurring sales events also reaching their second highest level. IMS led the quarter with $32 million of net sales events, with approximately one-third driven by new clients and the remainder attributable to client expansions. Demand in the quarter remained strongest amongst alternative asset managers, which drove nearly 90% of sales events. In July, we launched our retail transfer agency with our first client, with additional launches expected in the coming months.

We expect the combined transfer agency and fund administration revenue from the initiative to exceed $10 million on a run rate basis by the end of next year. Private banking generated $13 million of sales events during the quarter. Results reflected continued demand for enterprise transformation initiatives, professional services, SEI Data Cloud capabilities, and broader strategic engagements with clients. Nearly $3 million of events came from asset management sales to U.K. intermediaries. We are also starting to see momentum build in the U.S. The investments in talent we made early in the year to start driving asset management conversations are beginning to gain traction.

New leadership, clearer accountability, and a renewed commercial focus are rebuilding pipelines that have been underdeveloped for years. Within asset management, positive sales events and advisors of $2 million offset $2 million of negative events in institutional. Please turn to slide eight. Ending AUM was essentially flat for the second quarter, with limited impact from both market movements and net flows. Slightly positive net inflows and advisors largely offset modest net outflows in institutional. While flows remain mixed across our asset management businesses, we continue to see traction from newer products and initiatives, including ETFs, SMAs, strategic partnerships, and our advisor engagement efforts.

Assets under administration increased 4% compared to Q2, with growth driven by expansion in the IMS business, including the funding of recently won mandates and clients continuing to deploy capital. Assets managed by LSV were down 1% as strong investment outperformance was offset by $5 billion in net outflows, a figure that we expect to improve next quarter. Performance fees in Q3 totaled $4.5 million at SEI share. Turning to slide nine, we ended the quarter with $400 million of cash, modestly higher than Q2, despite repurchasing $215 million of SEI shares at an average price of $105.

Based on our current outlook, we would expect repurchase activity in the fourth quarter to be similar to the level achieved in the third quarter. Our commitment to share repurchases does not come at the expense of investing in the business. We continue to fund strategic growth initiatives across the enterprise while maintaining significant financial flexibility. The recent authorization of an additional $800 million of repurchase capacity gives us the ability to remain active well into 2027. In closing, we delivered another strong quarter and remain confident in the outlook for the business. Healthy pipelines and continued client engagement support that confidence as we head into the fourth quarter. With that, operator, please open the line for questions.

Operator: Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Our first question is from Jeff Schmitt with William Blair. Please proceed.

Jeff Schmitt: Everyone. I know ETF assets have been growing at a high rate, and you recently announced the integration with ICE ETF Hub, I think a few weeks ago. How should we think about the size and pace of that opportunity as you begin distributing these ETFs kind of outside of the SEI ecosystem?

Ryan Hicke: No, it's a great question. Thank you. Our ETF lineup is growing. We both are growing the number of ETFs we are out selling, both on-platform and off-platform, and the size, the actual volume of the ETF business overall, and the industry is growing as ours triples just this year in terms of AUM from about $3 billion-$4 billion to about $9 billion, as was said earlier. We have also seen other model providers begin to use SEI in their models, and that is a first for the company.

I cannot give a number of what I expect the growth to be, but if you look at that business, the ETF business, we are growing our product lineup across a range of fee schedules. It is not all very low-cost, cheap betas. There are active strategies, fund-to-fund strategies across fixed income and equity. I would expect our hope is that business has the potential to double again next year. We see it as a growth engine for us.

Jeff Schmitt: Okay, great. Given the strength in IMS, are you running into capacity constraints that could limit how quickly you take on new business? If so, I guess could your automation initiative support higher growth as those kind of progress?

Phil McCabe: Sure. Thanks, Jeff. This is Phil. I would definitely say the automation initiative is going to help us with IBM over the next several quarters or so we're definitely looking forward to that. We have never had a conversion queue. When a client wants to be converted, we rally the troops and convert them. We do have a lot of business right now, and we are hiring as quickly as humanly possible. So it's a constant ballet, a juggling act, and we're doing everything we can to bring revenue in as quickly as humanly possible.

Jeff Schmitt: Mm-hmm. Okay, great. Thank you.

Operator: Our next question is from Crispin Love with Piper Sandler. Please proceed.

Crispin Love: Thank you. Good evening. Just first on sales wins and IMS, specifically the alternative side. Maybe just discuss the areas where you're seeing the most success today. You've discussed being a leader in private credit and private equity. Out of those two, where you're seeing the most success, and then beyond PE and private credit, where else are you seeing strength?

Phil McCabe: Jeff, I'm sorry. Crispin, it's Phil. I look at the pipeline in three different ways. I look at first-time outsourcers. Right now, we're doing really, really well with first-time outsourcers. We have two of the top 25, and we're probably speaking to another 15 of the top 100 managers out there. We're really starting to resonate in the market with that. That's everything. It's not just private equity or private credit. Most of these managers are multi-strat managers, and we do everything for them. We are seeing a ton of traction with secondaries out there. Private credit, we're still seeing flows. It's a little lighter on the retail side, but they're still launching flagship products.

We're seeing more insurance money flying into private credit. Beyond that, on the retirement side of the business, we've closed 14 managers already that want to put alternative products into collective investment trusts. We're seeing a lot of traction there. It's a little bit slow on the funding side, but that only bodes well for the future. Then lastly, we look in the wealth side, and the new TA capabilities enable us to go after interval funds, which we had been losing prior to a couple few months ago. We got a couple of them locked down, and we have a bunch stacked up for converting in October, November, December, and well into next year.

Ryan Hicke: Crispin, the only other thing I'd add to what Phil said is something that we talked about at the investor day and something in the past. We track pretty closely our success rate of new fund launches from existing clients, and that's an area that we just continue to see, I think, outsized growth relative to peers.

Crispin Love: All right. Great. Thank you. Appreciate the color. Then just a little bit about the expense outlook, just given the success of sales and how that can flow into compensation. You did call out the additional $6 million+ of incentive comp. Is that just based on sales that have already been announced? Then also, as I look at my models on a go-forward basis, is a better jumping-off point for expenses the operating expenses less that $6 million accrual? Just kind of curious as I look at the fourth quarter and beyond.

Sean Denham: First off, the $6 million incentive comp accrual is a one-timer that goes away next quarter. We did increase that this quarter, so that's a true-up. There's another 25% that hits in Q4, so call it $1.5 million. Looking back historically, our incentive comp accrual overall is closer to 100%, so it's fair to call out as being a bit of a choppier impact, certainly in terms of the impact to Q3 results. Good expense from the standpoint that it goes up when the business performs great, and if the business performs not great, then it goes down.

Crispin Love: Great.

Ryan Hicke: The only other thing I would add, Crispin, you might know, but also incentive comp is independent of sales comp at SEI. The incentive comp accrual, incentive comp is a variable bonus element to the majority of our workforce that is completely independent of the sales compensation linked to our sales results.

Crispin Love: All right, perfect. Thank you. Appreciate that.

Operator: Our next question is from Alex Kramm with UBS. Please proceed.

Alex Kramm: Yeah, hey. Just want to come back to your comments on the pipeline. I think you called it healthy, and maybe some of this you just answered a couple of questions ago. Can you just give a little bit more detail where you're seeing most of the strength? You made the comment you already exceeded last year. Anything in particular on the Q4 we should be mindful of? Any big chunky areas? How do you feel about year-end?

Ryan Hicke: Hey, Alex, it's Ryan. I think we'll do what we normally do on the call when we get this question. I'll give a high level overview and then I'll let the unit leads maybe give some color commentary. I think what's really exciting is when you compare Q3 to Q2, they look eerily similar in terms of the spread and the breadth, which is a great thing because we constantly talk about both the qualitative importance of our sales results are just as important to us as the quantitative, but we really care about repeatability. When we look at pipelines for Q4 and into early 2027, we see a lot of the same.

A lot of the same trends in terms of the segments where we believe we can differentiate, a lot of trends in terms of the value proposition resonance. But I think it's always great to let Michael or Phil or Sanjay give a little bit of color around what segments or what they're seeing, where we continue to win.

Michael Lane: When you think about platform business, and you think about custody and wealth tech, one of the things that you have to count on, if you want to do something in a large degree, excuse me, is some sort of a stimulus. We're seeing those stimulus happen in the industry right now. There is a competitor to us that just recently announced that anybody over a certain asset level is going to have to leave within the next nine months. That produces and provides an opportunity for us, and so we are all over that.

We think that opportunity industry-wide, just that one occurrence, is probably somewhere in the $50 billion mark, that will be coming out looking for a new home for a platform. So if you look at our pipelines that are in place right now, across the institutional and wealth business, they are at all-time highs. Our institutional business, we have been focusing hard on top-line growth. We have been retaining assets very well, but we need to focus more on top-line growth. So we have that. Our advisor business has incredible momentum, but the stimulus that has happened in the industry where there is up to $50 billion seeking a new home, we feel will be new pipeline coming into 2027.

Phil?

Phil McCabe: Sure. Last quarter, I was practically giddy when I was talking about the pipeline. So I was instructed to dial it down a little bit. What I would say is the outlook is very strong for the next several quarters or so, no matter what jurisdiction, no matter what products. Things are going really well. So we have talked about retirement, we have talked about wealth, we have talked about insourcers to outsourcing. In general, we seem to be clicking on all cylinders. So not sure what else to say other than the team is working really hard and we expect great things.

Ryan Hicke: Sanjay? Sanjay Sharma EVP, CEO of SEI International, and Global Head of SEI's Private Banking Business I would echo my colleagues here. Our pipeline is very strong and we are very excited about it. Ryan, we talked about how we are going to market in PB segment now. We are not just leading with our platform. We are leading in PB segment with enterprise capabilities, and that is generating a lot of new opportunities, not just with new logos, but with existing clients as well. Think about we have 100 plus existing clients in PB segment.

We are very focused on how we can continue to grow our footprint with SEI enterprise capabilities, both here in U.S. as well as in international markets. So we are very excited about our pipeline.

Michael Lane: I will just say, Sanjay, on top of that, Sanjay and I are working closely on bringing investments into banks. We now have a team of people hired that are going out and capitalizing on the fact that we have deep relationships with banks on the technology side and operations side, but we have never brought investments to them. As we have grown our investment lineup, we are now bringing that into the banks as well.

Ryan Hicke: It is fine, Michael. I was going to say the same thing and just add a little color of saying to Alex's question, there are core kind of business areas, but to Sean's commentary around things that we have accelerated and activated in 2026, we are optimistic that things like asset management to the banking space. We are really excited about the momentum we see in Stratos. The Carlyle fund launches in Q4. We have multiple different things actually, that we know will start to get some momentum going into 2027, that we believe will be additive to the success that we have had.

Alex Kramm: Great. Lots of great color. Thank you very much, guys. Then maybe just very quickly on the transfer agency launch. Sounds like one win live so far. Anything else you can talk about on that opportunity specifically? You mentioned that $10 million by the end of next year. Maybe just how do you get there, and what needs to happen for that to actually be exceeded? Yeah, just a little bit more color how you are thinking about the ramping that business.

Phil McCabe: Sure. This is Phil again. The first one went live on August 3rd. We have other ones live now, and as I said, we have them stacked up for the next several months or so. I think the $10 million number will be a little bit light. The first deal was about $600,000. From there, I think it is in a space that we have never been in before. I think if we just keep doing what we are doing, we are going to be fine.

Alex Kramm: Good. Thanks, guys.

Operator: Our next question is from Ryan Kenny with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed.

Ryan Kenny: Hi, good afternoon. You have called out that the pull forward of net new sales helped drive some of the revenue growth. Is there any effect of accelerated implementation timelines, either because of process improvement or because of AI? Sanjay Sharma EVP, CEO of SEI International, and Global Head of SEI's Private Banking Business I can take that. From private banking wealth management perspective, as Ryan talked about the quality of deals we are focusing on, it is a repeatable business. We have invested very heavily in our onboarding process. When think about when our clients are changing a platform A to our platform, it is a significant undertaking in terms of people, process, technology and SEI to enterprise capabilities.

We have mastered that. If you look at last two plus years, this is how we have like regional community bank space or the PCIMs and IFA market in U.K. It is a repeatable process. We are investing in automation, in AI, and that is helping us to fast-track the overall onboarding process.

Ryan Hicke: I think the other thing, Ryan, which is a little bit more kind of independent, is when Sanjay and Michael and Phil are talking about kind of how we are positioning the company, and we use phrases like an enterprise partner, and I know that sounds kind of trade like jargon, but clients and prospects are letting us in sooner, and we are getting more insight into their current and future operating models earlier in the process, so that when these deals are struck, we are ready to go, and we have a much clearer and granular understanding of what their ultimate destination looks like.

It is the combination of the technology, but I think it is also an additive part of the relationship and the way we have been going to market. We're just a lot smarter when the go button is hit of what we need to do, and that is paying off and you're seeing it. I think that's why we're installing things faster than we have historically.

Ryan Kenny: That's great. Then you mentioned that the revenue mix is increasingly weighted towards the enterprise-wide sales activity and advisory in business transformation and other initiatives. Are those revenue streams for one time in nature, or is there a recurring nature to them that helps the revenue outlook be more resilient over time? Sanjay Sharma EVP, CEO of SEI International, and Global Head of SEI's Private Banking Business This is Sanjay again. If you look at the professional services market, when you look at all these banking clients or any other segment clients, they are making a platform change decision maybe once in 20 years, 15 years. But then continuously, they are keeping pace with the changes happening in the industry.

Those could be driven by regulatory requirements, they could be technology-driven, they could be industry-driven. They're constantly looking for trusted partners who can help them with that change journey. That's how we are establishing ourselves and differentiating ourselves with other providers, that we could be that trusted partners for them to continue to keep pace with the change. That's where you could see the traction we are having with our SEI Data Cloud solution or with our professional services, even AI adoption.

Sanjay Sharma EVP, CEO of SEI International, and Global Head of SEI's Private Banking Business Sneha and I, we are working together, literally we talk to each other every day about how we can help our clients to adopt AI, because this is not easy. That how you implement AI-driven initiatives in your landscape, that requires significant undertaking. Reskilling your workforce, adopting new ways of compliance, resilience. We are the ones we are helping our clients with that journey.

Sneha Shah: Yeah. Maybe I'll add there. I think it's really important to understand what clients are going through because they're having to reinvent their operating model in the age of AI. They don't see us as just a provider for that one part of their platform. They're actually saying, "What are you building that we don't have to?" We're actually getting business that is recurring business that has nothing to do with what we started the conversation with them a couple of years back with. We're also creating new services as a result of the client demand.

It's really interesting because we're seeing across the industry, people want fewer partners that are trusted, that are deeper in their ecosystem because the amount of AI tools and the proliferation of that is not deriving value for them because the value comes from integrated platforms and context, and that's where we really provide a lot of value to our clients.

Ryan Kenny: Excellent. Thank you.

Operator: Our next question is from Patrick O'Shaughnessy with Raymond James. Please proceed.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: Hey, good afternoon. How would you characterize the general health of the private credit space right now in light of some of the growing concerns about credit quality? What is the read-through in terms of your sales pipeline? Sounds like no impact yet, but are there maybe some cracks starting to emerge?

Ryan Hicke: Phil, you can go. Patrick, the answer to the second part, there are no cracks starting to emerge, but Phil can give

Phil McCabe: Sure

Ryan Hicke: clear color on that.

Phil McCabe: Yeah. I mean, on the private credit side, we track the flagship products, as I said before, that they are looking to launch, and we are still seeing them getting launched on schedule. I do think retail flows are down in private credit, but that did not impact us before because we have only been in that space for about the last several months. On the institutional side, we are seeing insurance money flowing into private credit, but that is only a fraction of a fraction of what we do, and we do not see any cracks in any particular part of our pipeline at all anywhere.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: All right. That is helpful. Thank you. A question on Stratos. Can you kind of walk us through the U.S. versus the international strategy of that business at this point?

Ryan Hicke: Today, the Stratos footprint, Patrick, is predominantly U.S., and they had one Latin American business that was part of their overall kind of ecosystem. That was the NSC business that we called out as the termination. But the rest of the business is all domestic.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: Okay. Helpful. Thank you.

Operator: Our next question is from Alex Bond with KBW. Please proceed.

Alex Bond: Hey, good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for taking the questions. Wanted to follow up on some of the commentary around retail alts and the interval fund side. Sounds like the near-term pipeline is strong there. Last quarter you'd called out trying to target some of the larger existing funds in that area. So curious if you could share how those efforts, maybe specifically with converting some of the larger existing funds in that area, are progressing. Thanks.

Phil McCabe: Yeah. It's Phil again. I think we needed a little bit of a proof case with the first couple deals that we signed to get them in and done, and they seem to be going really well. But I think over time, we'll keep moving up the food chain to try to get larger and larger deals. As we said before, that market's kind of bifurcated. The top 15 or 20 managers have about 60% of that market, so we definitely want to move up. I just think we have to sort of crawl, walk, run, and right now we're walking, and we'll go from there.

Ryan Hicke: I think the only thing I'd add is, we don't ever give out client names, as Phil said, but I literally have the pipeline for our TA in front of me. As Phil said, we're really optimistic, not just in the ability to continue to win business, but the brands that we're winning the business from are the right sort of brands that will put us in a good spot and will continue to grow.

Alex Bond: Got it. Makes sense. That's helpful. Also wondering maybe if you can expand on what you're seeing in the institutional business. You noted that it's difficult to time up when some of those pipeline opportunities could turn into revenue events, which is understandable and makes sense. But maybe if you could speak to which areas you're seeing the most traction in as it relates to the pipeline there as of late and sort of near-term expectations there, that would be helpful as well. Thank you.

Michael Lane: Absolutely. In the institutional pipeline, what we've been focusing on predominantly is endowment foundation, healthcare. Those are the two primaries. Obviously, we're not focusing on new defined benefit plans. We're retaining the ones we have that haven't funded fully with a surplus that might annuitize at some point. If you look at the losses we had in the third quarter, we had one plan loss that we did what we were supposed to do, got them to 100% funding ratio, and then they annuitized. But the pipeline is truly growing in that endowment foundation space and healthcare.

We are putting all of our resources behind a much more targeted approach to growing the top line than trying to spread a little too thin as we may have in the past.

Alex Bond: Great. Thanks, everyone.

Operator: As a reminder, just star one on your telephone keypad if you would like to ask a question. Our next question is from Dan Welden with Wells Fargo. Please proceed.

Dan Welden: Hi. Good evening. I'm still recovering from your Jelly Roll quote.

Ryan Hicke: Thanks, Dan. So are we. If you like it was my idea. If you don't, it was Brad's.

Dan Welden: You sound positive on the outlook for private banks. You said expect to remain solid. I was wondering if you could drill in a little bit just to two areas. One, the recurring revenue sales events, what's sort of driving that momentum? Secondly, on AMD, you've got three quarters of positive flows that are a very good trajectory versus spotty historically. I'm curious on your views on sustainability on that trend.

Ryan Hicke: Yeah, Dan, two great questions. I'll start and let Sanjay give color. If you think about historically, private banking, as we said, was basically a sell SWP only value proposition. When you look at the breadth of recurring revenue, SWP is still at the core of almost all of the sales agendas. Then the expansion that Sanjay touched on earlier around professional services has really just been an amazing tailwind for the business and something that we see has great durability. Then if you take your AMD comment, that is all international.

We made a shift about 18 months ago that we had a lot of resources in the U.K. that were split focused on the institutional space and only one resource focused on the intermediary space. I have a lot of bias given that's kind of where I spent most of my career at SEI in the U.K. We shifted probably one of our best leaders in the U.K. to the AMD intermediary space, gave him some resource to hire some talent. It really has paid off, not just with new names, but with reigniting relationships with existing clients.

That's why Sean and Michael and Sanjay, Dan, were calling out that we made a couple of key hires earlier this year because we really believe we have a similar opportunity in the U.S. with our IMU platform and our OCIO capabilities in the banking space, especially as Michael talked about a different approach where maybe we are a component in somebody else's model. We are really excited about that opportunity. But at the core, we really love what we see in terms of the market for core SWP. But when you add professional services and asset management, that is where we get excited about some differentiated top-line growth for banking moving forward.

Sanjay, you want to provide a little color too on kind of the margin when we have those additional solutions? Sanjay Sharma EVP, CEO of SEI International, and Global Head of SEI's Private Banking Business Yes, certainly. Ryan, this anchors us back to what we talked about private banking market on Investor Day. Right. Sanjay Sharma EVP, CEO of SEI International, and Global Head of SEI's Private Banking Business We said that apart from going to market with core platform, we will also be expanding significantly in professional services and asset management. What you are seeing now that, yes, international market is already showing those results, and we are expanding through those capabilities in domestic market as well.

One other thing which I would call out once again, I talked about it earlier. Our earlier focus was winning new logos because we were just leading with platform. Think about any of our existing clients. Once they buy the platform, if we are not selling them anything else, there is no other opportunity for SEI to grow. We changed that paradigm completely. Now, while we are chasing new logos with our enterprise capabilities, we are also helping our clients to grow their business. That is translating in a new revenue, recurring revenue stream for us. Sanjay Sharma EVP, CEO of SEI International, and Global Head of SEI's Private Banking Business I talked about Data Cloud and AI.

Think about the industry will keep changing. It is on us that we continue to innovate new services for our clients and help them to keep pace with change. That is where you could see a good combination of core platform, our enterprise professional services, Data Cloud, asset management capabilities that will continue to help us to grow our business in this segment.

Dan Welden: That's great color. Thank you.

Ryan Hicke: Thank you, Dan.

Operator: There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the conference back over to Ryan Hicke for closing comments.

Ryan Hicke: Well, thank you everyone. This was again, a terrific quarter. We really appreciate the engagement. We appreciate the support. We're extremely excited about what is ahead of us, and we look forward to speaking with you again next quarter.

Operator: Thank you. This will conclude today's conference. You may disconnect at this time, and thank you for your participation.