Daniel Kemp
The investment in Geora takes Tenacious Ventures Fund I to 60% deployment, although the firm has made no decisions on a successor fund yet.
Mark Rider will take over as CIO of LGIAsuper and Energy Super in February after Troy Rieck leaves to take on a new role elsewhere.
Laguna Bay has made a non-binding indicative offer of A$0.20 per share in cash for Angel Seafood and has entered a period of exclusive due diligence.
Annual farmland continues to strongly outperform permanent crops in the Australian Farmland Index, with strong commodity prices helping returns across the board.
A new research project in Australia aims to quantify the benefits of investing in natural capital, with hopes that it can shape farming practices for generations to come.
The sale will achieve a net IRR of more than 15% for investors in Black River Agriculture Fund, and other co-investors.
Mitsui said the commitment would help it achieve net zero emissions by 2050, potentially offsetting more than 10m tonnes of CO2 emissions.
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.
The Sydney-headquartered fund manager has secured commitments from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the SDG Kempen Farmland Fund for its Transforming Farming Platform.
New Forests is partnering with CDC Group, Finnfund and Norfund to launch the strategy, its first major foray into the African market.