KeyInvest unveils new investment platform, awards mandate

KeyInvest has launched a new investment platform to include a plethora of investment strategies ranging from private credit to global equities.

The KeyInvest Managed Investments (KIMI) platform provides advisers and wholesale investors access to specialist strategies, with the first offering focusing on private credit.

The KeyInvest Senior Debt Income Fund is now available to wholesale investors and invests in senior secured loans backed by first-ranking mortgages over real assets including property and infrastructure, targeting returns of cash rate +5% per annum (net of fees and costs) with regular monthly income distributions.

KeyInvest is also exploring the potential for broader access through retail structures in the future.

Further, an Australian small companies and a global small companies strategies are expected to follow in the near future.

Commenting, KeyInvest managing director and chief executive Craig Brooke said KIMI is built on the organisation's longevity and foundation.

"Some of the most attractive opportunities exist in areas shaped by structural forces such as regulation, capital constraints, and complexity, and that is precisely where KIMI is focused," Brooke said.

"Across those cycles markets have changed significantly, but certain principles about successful investing remain consistent."

Meanwhile, Atchison has been appointed as investment adviser to provide manager research capabilities, portfolio construction, and ongoing oversight.

KIMI executive director Ciaran McAssey said the multi-manager structure is central to how the platform delivers strong risk-adjusted returns.

"By combining best-in-breed managers into a single diversified portfolio, we unlock sources of alpha that a single-manager approach simply cannot access," McAssey said.

"But that only works if you are prepared to be ruthless in who makes the cut. The majority of managers we assessed did not meet our standards, and that discipline is what protects investors."

McAssey also highlighted the platform provides institutional-grade transparency, unlike many private credit offerings where underlying exposures can remain "largely opaque" to provide greater confidence.