Louisa Burwood-Taylor
The review was recommended by consultant Wilshire Associates at a recent board meeting.
China may not have raised the threshold for land ownership in Australia, but the country has taken big steps towards securing food supply ahead of other emerging markets. In turn this will present big investment opportunities in Australia’s agri infrastructure sector.
A free trade agreement has been agreed between Australia and China. It will reduce tariffs on lamb, beef, horticulture and dairy products.
Online farming platform trecker.com received funding from German venture capital firm Target Partners.
The US venture capital firm has invested into Farmers Edge from the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ Green Growth Fund.
The German alternative fund house is set to close on around $200m.
A lively LP panel at the Agri Investor Forum in Chicago last week presented some useful pointers for managers on fees, pitches and more.
Management expertise is the most important characteristic in real assets investing as plans to invest in timber and farmland grow, according to US institutions surveyed by Greenwich Associates and Cohen & Stears.
The agri fund management and advisory community should move on from describing the market’s macro appeal to sharing practical and educational investment advice with institutional investors, and vice versa.
AgIS Capital has invested in California Olive Ranch on behalf of a private institutional investor.