New Zealand Superannuation Fund is keen to boost its timber and agri portfolios overseas.
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.
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.
Speakers on the structuring panel at Agri Investor’s Forum in Chicago last week said that the market is still experimenting with finding the right structures to fit the right proposition.
National politics and the risks they entail can create havoc for agriculture investment managers.
Headlines in the farmland REIT market this week contributed to the debate about suitable investment structures in agri.
The chairman of the social impact investor, Keith Palmer, talks about how the firm creates businesses that last in Africa.
Kevin Schwartz, president at Paine & Partners, talks about the opportunities presented by consolidation in the industry.
Competition between Australian and New Zealand dairy investment managers has gathered pace recently, but there are opportunities in both markets for the right investor.
Investments into Australasian dairy have gathered pace in recent months exposing the two countries’ different fundamentals, according to Cambridge Associates’ Peter Roney.