Institutional Investors

The agriculture committee will try to pin down what is holding back the country's superfunds from investment in the sector.

Deanne Stewart, current chief executive of Metlife’s Australian business, will take over in November after Michael Dwyer retires.

Ted Eliopoulos, who has been at the US's largest public pension for more than one decade, will step away by the start of 2019.

European pensions are more comfortable with debt than equity when investing in the developing world, the Dutch institution's investment management chief tells us.

Townsend is calling on the endowment – an LP in ag vehicles run by Brookfield, Agriculture Capital and others – to turn its attention to 'unique situations' such as secondaries.

Allocating 15% of a portfolio to the asset class can help sovereign funds grow 27% faster over nine years, fresh research estimates.

Paolo Bazan of IDB Invest tells Agri Investor that foreign insurance companies and pension funds are increasingly willing to provide long-term financing to export-focused agribusinesses in Latin America.

EBRD principal banker Nazli Arikan tells Agri Investor that the $48m in credit, offered alongside other DFIs and private lenders, will help Tiryaki Agro reorient its strategy to focus more on organic exports.

Reliable data security measures are more important than returns or fee alignment to LPs, according to the annual CFA survey on investor trust.

Reliable data security measures are more important than returns or fee alignment to LPs, according to the annual CFA survey on investor trust.