As institutions look to commit 20% of their portfolios to real assets, agri investing will gain popularity. But investment managers must be careful to ensure they have the right on-the-ground management, argues Detlef Schoen, head of farm investments at Aquila Capital.
New laws and regulations emanating from Brussels over the past few years have had mixed effects on the private equity and venture capital industry, writes law firm King & Wood Mallesons in its latest Private Equity Comment.
For those with a hearty appetite for risk, the rewards of investing in African agri can be enormous, says consultant Emma Cowan of Cardy-Brown. But be careful where you tread and with whom.
Paul Vine, partner in the Amsterdam office of global legal practice at Norton Rose Fulbright, looks at the history of the Common Agriculture Policy and provides some thoughts on new policy's impact on agricultural investment.
Insurance products are now available to help mitigate some timberland investment risks and create a more stable source of returns, argues Christian Röckemann, founding partner of First Forest.
Rob Hurlbut, principal at Equilibrium Capital, describes the fundraising process for the ACM Permanent Crops fund, which closed on $250m last week.
Emma Cowan, independent agribusiness consultant, describes the changing landscape for commodities amid a shift in biofuel and BRIC countries’ growth potential.
The term sustainability has been tarnished by too many broad applications of it, according to a recent white paper by Promar International.
Pravin Chandrasekaran, managing director at OpalCrest, the global data science firm focused on the agribusiness value chain, gives his views on developments in 2014 and some predictions for 2015.
Marcus Meadows-Smith describes the turnaround of biopesticide company AgraQuest - sold to Bayer CropScience for $425m in 2012- during his time as chief executive.