Staff Writer

The $11bn retirement system has also added a 5 percent real assets category that will include investments in agriculture, timber, mining, rare earth, metals and commodities.

The Singaporean sovereign wealth fund has taken a 20% direct stake in Godrej Agrovet, its second investment in the Godrej Group this year.

The $65m finance facility will be CDC’s first investment since its strategy change in September 2012.

Burmese regulators will have increased oversight powers as part of a bid to attract foreign investment in the country.

The Netherlands agribusiness stalwart named Gregory Hutton as executive director. He will be based in New York.

The firm, which has closed its tenth fund on $3.58bn, has a small allocation to explore opportunities in water resources and agriculture that tie back into its core strategies.

UCG Investments has announced the first close of its latest private equity fund after a six-week fundraising period. The fund will target infrastructure and energy as well as agriculture, forestry and real estate – mainly in Uruguay, Peru and Colombia.

With a newly minted fund and a fat Rolodex, Water Asset Management co-heads Disque Deane and Matt Diserio are more than willing to evangelise about investing in the water sector. And, pretty soon, they expect to be preaching to the converted.

The prospect for infrastructure investment in Australia is a story in three parts – resources, general urban development and, potentially, agribusiness, suggests Brian McDonald.

A Baltimore-based investment firm has raised $180 million to invest in wetlands restoration, a niche strategy that combines conservation with mid-teen return expectations.