Louisa Burwood-Taylor
The Australian agriculture manager is planning to launch a dairy fund and has hired Deo de Jesus as senior analyst for the new project.
Prudential Agricultural Investments (PAI), the US-based agriculture debt and equity business of Prudential Mortgage Capital Company, has made two new hires, including to a newly-created chief investment officer position.
The China-focused PE firm is targeting S$150m and will pursue the same strategy as Fund I across four main sectors: agriculture, healthcare, services and consumer-related industries.
Managers are embracing a range of different investment structures in agri, but are there too many?
Patrick Cheney, associate at Colvin & Co, discusses how the firm differentiates itself and talks through the firm's land valuation methods.
Mandala Capital is planning the final close of its 10-year Indian Agribusiness private equity fund in November this year.
The US pension fund is targeting a 5 percent allocation to timberland over the next five to six years. It recently increased a mandate with Forest Investment Associates.
The US buy-and-lease investment manager has bought a 318 acre farm in South Minnesota and hired an investment analyst, taking the permanent team up to four.
The venture capital fund's investment represents the first institutional round of fundraising for AbCelex, which is working on a replacement to antibiotics for meat animals.
The land will be managed by the same team that handles similar land in the same part of Victoria, Australia for AgCAP, investment manager of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund.