Louisa Burwood-Taylor
Investors and fund managers are starting to look for innovative ways to construct agri portfolios.
The African agribusiness-focused firm is targeting up to $200m for Fund II and wants private sector participation to exceed Fund I’s 35% benchmark.
Agri Investor’s recent networking event drew a varied crowd that discussed the attraction of forestry assets to UK investors, big agtech players and marketing regulations. Debates about African agriculture returned.
Torsten Böhler, managing director of investment banking firm Abacus Emerging Markets, reveals why it has chosen agribusiness as a sector of focus.
Fund managers have said they are receiving an increasing number of enquiries about the sector from institutional investors.
Denmark's alignment between the government and private sector is very appealing and something to look up to.
The firm's asset management business is offering segregated mandates to institutional investors wanting to invest into Australian and New Zealand farmland.
The Timberland Investment Management Organisation is buying 50,000 acres from Plum Creek, acquiring it for a separate account investor.
James McCandless, managing director of UBS AgriVest, explains the buy-and-lease strategy and how demand for the asset class has changed over the years.
The US private equity firm has invested $200m into Ethiopia's Afriflora, an Ethiopian-based grower and distributor of sustainably grown roses.