Institutional Investors

The timber multi-management firm's fund recently made a secondary co-investment.

Investing alongside two co-investors, the Australia and New Zealand forestry investment manager has created a new business called Forico to manage the 175,000 hectares of forestry plantations.

Direct investing in agriculture appears to be picking up pace among institutional investors.

If mergers and acquisitions volumes are anything to go by, agribusiness investing is increasingly on the minds of corporates and private equity professionals worldwide.

The Swedish pension fund is pursuing a more direct co-investment route for its timber exposure, having spent the past 10 years investing predominantly via third-party funds.

The Swedish pension provider wants to increase its allocation to non-listed real estate, of which agri and timber are a part, to 15% over the long term.

Agri Partners and Caribbean Sustainable Agriculture are making use of debt - should more agri investment firms follow their lead?

The Illinois-based pension fund has transferred its agricultural investments account from Cozad/Westchester to the Hancock Natural Resource Group.

James McCandless, managing director of UBS AgriVest, explains the buy-and-lease strategy and how demand for the asset class has changed over the years.