Chris Janiec
The head of external management at AP Fonden 2, which committed $750m to a TIAA fund in 2014, tells Agri Investor why the Swedish pension favors core farmland investments.
Bill Reiman, a managing director at the REIT, warned that some organic farmers could 'take a pretty good hit' in the next economic downturn.
The $3.35m investment with Citrum will go towards rehabilitating banana production at a farm that is now growing grapefruit and oranges.
Eric Jackson, chief executive at AMERRA-linked Pipeline Foods, tells Agri Investor that he expects to bring in at least one direct institutional investor by the end of next year.
The $8.3bn pension has changed return benchmarks and earmarked one-fifth of its 7% real assets allocation for agriculture, timber and other natural resources investments.
Agriculture demand is set to soar as Brazil’s 21 million middle-class households become increasingly health-conscious, according to the USDA.
Private capital has its eyes set on central Europe's largest economy despite legislative uncertainty and a relative lack of scale, Abris partner Monika Nachyla tells Agri Investor.
The venture firm has raised €40m from Ireland’s sovereign development fund and opened its first European office in the 'agtech island.'
The US farmland REIT paid $5.4m to purchase White Hawk Vineyard, a California winery where the company hopes to more than double production.
Amid increased production, trade disputes and sagging demand, the Denver-based bank has flagged challenges facing corn ethanol producers over the next two years.