Ex-Hunter Hall executives have teamed up to build a new asset management firm that caters to both retail and wholesale investors in Australia.

Jack Lowenstein and Chad Slater, former global equity portfolio managers at investment trust firm Hunter Hall, have launched Morphic Asset Management, taking the helm as joint chief investment officers. 

The new firm is majority-owned by the founders and the staff, while the remaining shares are controlled by Innova Portfolio Management's private equity fund. Its first product, the Morphic Global Opportunities Fund, will invest in global equities. The minimum investment required is $10,000, with additional investments of at least $5000.

"Despite market chaos, equities are one of the few ways to protect wealth and so if you combine research with flexible hedging strategies, global equities are going to represent the wisest diversification of capital risk in current times," said Lowenstein in a statement.

Morphic Asset Management is now available on the e-Clipse Unified Managed Account platform.