Matthieu Favas
Acquired by its owner for A$8.2m in 1997, the 22,000ha Rushy Lagoon is being sold at a time when the Australian government is introducing tighter regulation on foreign ag investment.
Montreal-based Enerkem has just raised C$280m to build facilities in the US and Europe. We zoom in on the transaction’s structure and what it says about institutional appetite for advanced biofuels.
During Andrew Claerhout's tenure, the pension has come to define ag and timber as 'a core building block' of its natural resources strategy.
The administration has pledged $50bn to boost transport and connectivity across rural America, but will it make a difference? We asked insiders.
Positive cash flows have helped assuage outflows generated by the energy portfolio as Chinese demand boosts forestry.
Overberg Agri and Acorn Agri, which is backed by local firms African Rainbow Capital and Sanlam, are each valued at more than $180m.
Historical backers of the asset class, not least North American pensions, are seeking to hedge risks by redrawing their forestry strategy. But implementing new plans takes time.
Omnivore says foreign investors represent a sizeable portion of its second fund, which has a $75m target.
Days after Canberra announced fresh regulation meant to favor domestic bidders, we look at what has held back Aussie pensions so far – and why the new law will fail to change that.
A subsidiary of Grosvenor Estate has put an ex-Cargill and Syngenta exec in charge of running its new office in Minneapolis.