Institutional Investors

The firm is set to complete two deals ‘in the short term’ as it progresses towards a $500m final close in March or April next year.

The head of external management at AP Fonden 2, which committed $750m to a TIAA fund in 2014, tells Agri Investor why the Swedish pension favors core farmland investments.

By making agriculture ventures more productive, the rise of autonomous mobility promises to open up the market in counter-intuitive ways.

One of Australia’s largest irrigated and dryland cropping operations has attracted interest from domestic and international investors.

Funds reaching the end of their lives will bring assets to market amid LP appetite for long-term ownership, New Forests argues in its latest market update.

The deal, completed just three months since the company raised €45m, will enable the Dutch firm to expand by adding mealworms, crickets and locusts to its portfolio.

Eric Jackson, chief executive at AMERRA-linked Pipeline Foods, tells Agri Investor that he expects to bring in at least one direct institutional investor by the end of next year.

The $8.3bn pension has changed return benchmarks and earmarked one-fifth of its 7% real assets allocation for agriculture, timber and other natural resources investments.

Private capital has its eyes set on central Europe's largest economy despite legislative uncertainty and a relative lack of scale, Abris partner Monika Nachyla tells Agri Investor.

The venture firm has raised €40m from Ireland’s sovereign development fund and opened its first European office in the 'agtech island.'