Institutional Investors

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

Chief operating officer David Chan believes FarmTogether’s Sustainable Farmland Fund can raise and deploy $200m within 12-18 months.

The inability of many LPs to execute, despite their interest in co-investment, has left GPs frustrated, says the pension's investment director Yup Kim.

The partnership with PeakBridge will seek to make investments of between $3m to $5m in sectors including ingredient innovation and farming technology.

As innovation picks up and new players are attracted to the natural capital space, we want to recognize the standard bearers of the industry.

Investors with an increasingly defensive mindset are looking to farmland and timberland as safe homes for capital, a report from Raffles and Campden Wealth found.

No longer an obscure investment theme, the strategy is drawing interest from both public and private LPs as supply chains are rethought.

With more assets listed in recent weeks, it is clear asset managers see market conditions as an opportune time to make a return.

A trickle of fund managers choosing to link carried interest to their impact and ESG targets is good news for private markets, showing the industry is serious about its sustainability goals.

The separate account’s buy-and-lease strategy was trialed by the GP in 2019 and involves a flex lease arrangement that is conducive to organic farming.