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'I want to help private markets offer their services to retail clients'

Hicke has spent some time living and working in the UK. He was in the country from 2001 to 2012 and ran the UK office, with a six-month interval in the US.

“I love the UK; three of my five children were born in the UK,” he says. His job was to sell SEI’s asset management to IFAs all over the country. “I love the concentration — you can go and see anybody in the UK, and you can see anybody in Edinburgh, and I love being able to walk to meetings.”

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Looking forward, he wants UK advisers to be part of the next evolution of SEI’s services.