Matthieu Favas
An ambitious campaign to stop deforestation in Brazil hints at how institutions’ fiduciary clout can help bring about crucial change – and under what conditions.
The $224bn pension is considering capital injections into a fund and a separate account, as it seeks high single-digit returns from its nascent agriculture program, says director Paul Shantic.
A family-owned business wants to create a franchise model in dairy farming that it hopes to export overseas. A recipe for success?
The A$84bn pension fund sees water as the ultimate diversifier but is now willing to take more risk through a private equity-like strategy, says associate portfolio manager Brent Snow.
IDeA Agro has raised around 80% of its €100m target from a clutch of institutional investors. MD Gianandrea Perco tells Agri Investor why he thinks a successor fund could be much bigger.
A JV between the emirate’s Investment Corporation and Miami-based Optimum Agriculture is closing in on a $150m land acquisition after buying a 38,000-acre ranch in Florida.
The technology holds great promise and attracts a lot of money. Whether it will disappoint or thrive, however, depends on which side of the regulation divide it falls.
Stafford Capital has lodged a $244m hostile bid for Phaunos, the timber fund it used to manage. By refusing to say what it thinks of it, the vehicle’s board may be gunning for a higher price.
The Canadian pension hopes to deploy $1bn into Australian ag, says the CEO of its local offshoot. Prices are heading south as restrictions on capital outflows in China herald a cooling off.
Chief executive Chris Venter tells Agri Investor the company, which financial backers took private four years ago, could seek to co-invest with institutions to seal strategic acquisitions.