Partnership program
Access to the very best institutional investors
The SGHiscock Partnership Program identifies and partners with leading international investment managers. This follows a rigorous due diligence process to identify quality managers including:
- Highly experienced investment management teams
- Proven long-term track records
- Strong governance and risk management frameworks
Through the SGHiscock Partnership Program, clients gain access to institutional-quality investment strategies with retail minimum investment levels.
SGHiscock Investment Management brings significant expertise in the marketing and distribution of investment funds to the Australian retail market. When combined with our established suite of Australian equity and Australian REIT funds, the Partnership Program expands our capabilities across Global Equities and Global REITs, enhancing portfolio choice for Australian investors.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM)
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) is the asset management division of Morgan Stanley, leading the firm’s global investment activities and providing investment and risk management solutions worldwide. MSIM manages strategies across the full risk/return spectrum, covering equities, fixed income, alternatives, and private markets. The Global Quality Select strategy is managed by MSIM’s International Equity team based in London, with a quality-focused investment philosophy applied consistently for more than 20 years.
As the exclusive retail partner of MSIM in Australia, SGH offers:
- Morgan Stanley Global Quality Select Fund
- Two classes: Hedged and Unhedged
- A high-quality global equity strategy with integrated ESG considerations
- Low carbon impact and strong ESG scores relative to broad equity indices, including the MSCI World Index, as measured by third-party providers such as MSCI ESG
LaSalle Investment Management Securities, LLC
In 2003, LaSalle Investment Management Securities, LLC (LaSalle) and SG Hiscock & Company formed an alliance as joint investment managers of the SGH LaSalle funds. LaSalle is one of the world’s most experienced real estate securities investment managers and is part of the broader LaSalle Investment Management and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) group, whose sole focus is property and real assets.
Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Baltimore, USA, LaSalle benefits from:
- A global platform of approximately 750 professionals across 17 countries
- Deep global and local insights into property market trends and cycles
- Industry-leading real estate research
- LaSalle applies a disciplined, valuation-based investment process focused on identifying mispriced real estate securities.
- As LaSalle’s exclusive retail partner in Australia, SGHiscock Investment Management offers:
- SGH LaSalle Concentrated Global Property Fund – an actively managed global portfolio investing in listed property securities (G-REITs) and real estate operating companies (REOCs), targeting long-term capital growth and rental income while providing the liquidity of listed securities.
- LaSalle Concentrated Global Property Fund – M Series (Unhedged) mirrors the core strategy but is unhedged and applies a different performance fee structure, based on a relative performance fee calculation.
The Informed Momentum Company (IMC)
The Informed Momentum Company (IMC) is a specialist global equity manager focused exclusively on delivering alpha through its proprietary Informed Momentum® investment approach. IMC’s systematic, momentum-driven process leverages collective market insight, combining:
- Momentum signals
- Stock selection
- Tailored risk management
- Efficient portfolio implementation
The investment philosophy seeks to capture the momentum premium, exploit behavioural biases, assess accelerating company fundamentals, and continuously manage portfolio risk. IMC has applied this approach consistently since inception in 2007. As at February 2025, IMC managed approximately US$2.5 billion in assets and is headquartered in Solana Beach, California, USA. As IMC’s exclusive Australian retail partner, SGHiscock Investment Management offers:
IMC Global Small Companies Fund
- Invests in stocks generally within the market capitalisation range of the MSCI ACWI Small Cap Index (ex-Australia)
- Exposure across 22 developed markets and 25 emerging markets
- Diversified portfolio of approximately 100–150 holdings
- Aims to deliver consistent alpha through the Informed Momentum® approach
Aberdeen Investments
Aberdeen is a global investment company that helps clients and customers plan, save and invest for their future. Enabling their clients to be better investors drives everything they do. Across markets globally, Aberdeen builds investment solutions to enable clients to create more opportunities for their futures.
Aberdeen Funds
As the exclusive fund’s distribution partner of Aberdeen in Australia, we are proud to offer the following funds:
- abrdn Sustainable Asian Opportunities Fund
- abrdn Sustainable Asian Opportunities Active ETF (Managed Fund)
- abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Fund
- abrdn Sustainable International Equities Fund
- abrdn Global Corporate Bond Fund
AQR Investments
AQR Capital Management, LLC is a quantitative investment management firm dedicated to delivering results for clients. At the nexus of economics, behavioral finance, data and technology, AQR’s evolution has been a continuous exploration of what drives markets and how it can benefit clients’ portfolios.
AQR Capital Management
As the exclusive distributor for the AQR Wholesale Managed Futures Fund in Australia, SG Hiscock & Company is proud to bring this capability to clients.
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”) is the asset management division of Morgan Stanley and leads the firm’s work in global investment, offering investment and risk management solutions to investors worldwide. The investment strategies span the risk/return spectrum across geographies, investment style and asset classes including equity and fixed income, alternatives and private markets. The Global Quality Select strategy is managed by MSIM’s International Equity team based in London. Investing in quality companies has underpinned the team’s investment approach for over 20 years.
As the exclusive partner of MSIM in Australia for retail investors, we are proud to offer the following global equity strategy:
Lasalle Investment Management
In 2003, LaSalle Investment Management Securities, LLC (LaSalle) and SG Hiscock & Company (SGH) formed an alliance to be joint investment managers of the SGH LaSalle funds. LaSalle is one of the most experienced real estate securities investment managers in the world and is also part of the broader LaSalle group, LaSalle Investment Management and Jones Lang LaSalle whose sole focus is property.
Founded in 1985 and based in Baltimore, U.S.A, LaSalle has access to the broader group with 750 global professionals in 17 countries which gives LaSalle a unique competitive advantage with global and local insights into market trends and cycles and industry leading research. LaSalle utilises a disciplined valuation based investment process that seeks to identify mispriced securities and is geared specifically to real estate securities investments.
As the exclusive partner of LaSalle in Australia for retail investors, we are proud to offer the following two global property securities funds:
SGH LaSalle Concentrated Global Property Fun
LaSalle Concentrated Global Property Fund M Series (Unhedged)
The Informed Momentum Company
The Informed Momentum Company (IMC) is an investment management firm solely-focused on delivering alpha for clients in global equity markets through its Informed Momentum® investment approach. IMC’s momentum-driven approach to investing leverages their collective insight within a systematic process designed to deliver consistent and predictable outcomes.
This Informed Momentum® investment approach combines momentum with stock selection, tailored risk management, and efficient implementation to deliver alpha for clients. IMC’s investment process aims to generate alpha by harnessing the power of the momentum premium, exploiting behavioural biases around new information, assessing the rationale behind improving/accelerating company financial performance, and by constantly addressing portfolio risk.
The firm’s time-tested philosophy and investment approach has been applied consistently across all strategies since inception in 2007.
As of February 2025, IMC had approximately $US2.5 billion in assets under management. IMC is headquartered in Solana Beach, CA, USA.
As the exclusive partner of IMC in Australia for retail investors, we are proud to offer a global small companies fund.
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