Matthieu Favas
Under Neil Cunningham's tenure, timber and agri have grown to represent nearly 90% of the Canadian pension's $3bn natural resources portfolio.
The $350m pension, which revamped its real assets policy last year, declined a timberland investment proposal in December.
Farm assets are set to increase to $2.7trn in 2018, buoyed by a rise in real estate values.
It’s not clear anyone will gain much from Australia’s latest tightening of foreign investment rules.
An innovative study by the Inter-American Development Bank studies the link between greenhouse gas emissions and policy support. We sum up the results in an interactive chart.
Guillermo Marroquin, whose responsibilities involved marketing ag funds at the Australian firm, will lead real assets efforts in North America at the placement agent.
Treasurer Scott Morrison today unveiled a law giving domestic buyers first right to farmland for transactions of more than A$15m. We take a look at the small print.
State-backed vehicles have good reasons to invest in agriculture. Can they do it at scale without running into political hurdles?
Angus Selby will be tasked with sourcing investments in the Northern Hemisphere alongside Charles Newton, ex-principal of the Canadian pension, who is also joining the firm.
Big deals have pulled valuations upwards in the South and Northwest, while Lake States assets have depreciated so steadily in recent quarters that they are now close to 2013 levels.