Chris Janiec
The firm expanded its partnership with iCapital last year to include access to farmland investments through its open-end Global Farmland Fund.
Ukraine’s EU accession negotiations started in December 2023 and membership would improve conditions for institutional investment, but those prospects must first surmount opposition from farmers already in the bloc.
Panelists at Peoples Company’s Land Investment Expo said public anxiety and ambiguities in state and federal regulations could ‘chill transactions’ and create ‘friction.’
The Nature Conservancy’s Michael Wironen says the pair contemplate ‘there will be an interest and need in attracting capital’ as the regenerative ag and habitat conservation partnership develops.
Reduced political programming at the 17th Peoples Company Land Investment Expo could not dislodge policy from the center of discussion amid a cloudy outlook for the US ag sector.
Former Goldcrest and Fall Line Capital executives Tommy Funk and Thiago Lima have been brought in to take the farmland service provider’s suite of offerings into the Southeast and Southern Plains.
CAP managing director Jim Heyes says the team behind MozFibra has laid the business plans necessary to avoid the pitfalls of many past African forestry investments that did not put the required emphasis on market access logistics.
FIA managing director MaryKate Bullen says there has been a broadening of investor appreciation and understanding of the intrinsic value and climate benefits that working forests provide.
In 2023, the CEA market experienced a bit of a hangover.
Sustainability has inspired investors to look at the fundamentals of Latin America’s timber resources in a new light.