Institutional Investors

West coast permanent crop specialists Paul Frankel and Jeff Steen, partners at Kachina, consider the most viable options for institutional investors to reduce their California ag exposure.

The Japanese trust bank made its first timberland investment last year amid a trend that has now led to New Forests being acquired by Mitsui & co and Nomura.

Roc Partners partner Frank Barillaro said that many blue-ribbon Australian farmland assets sold to offshore investors may never come back into domestic hands, with superfunds still reluctant to participate in the market.

PSP Investments dominated the first Agri Investor awards, underlining the Canadian pension’s status as a heavyweight in the global food and natural capital world.

We celebrate the managers, investors and innovators who won awards across 31 categories in the inaugural Agri Investor Global Awards.

Roc Partners pipped Warakirri Asset Management to the Asia-Pacific Fund Manager of the Year award.

British fund manager Gresham House took home the fund manager of the year awards as Sweden’s AP3 won the institutional award.

BTG Pactual emerged as fund manager of the year in the combined North and South America category.

The winners of global categories such as Personality, Firm and Fundraise of the Year, as well as sectors like agtech, sustainability and innovation.

Paris-based PAI is targeting €7bn for its eighth vehicle, which counts food and consumer among its four principle areas of investment.