The race is on for attractive agricultural assets in Australia in the wake of the country’s recent free trade agreement with China, according to the investment bank.
Strategic investors are set to play an increasing role in agri investment globally and asset management firms should be open to aligning with them.
New Zealand Superannuation Fund is keen to boost its timber and agri portfolios overseas.
China may not have raised the threshold for land ownership in Australia, but the country has taken big steps towards securing food supply ahead of other emerging markets. In turn this will present big investment opportunities in Australia’s agri infrastructure sector.
The agri fund management and advisory community should move on from describing the market’s macro appeal to sharing practical and educational investment advice with institutional investors, and vice versa.
Speakers on the structuring panel at Agri Investor’s Forum in Chicago last week said that the market is still experimenting with finding the right structures to fit the right proposition.
National politics and the risks they entail can create havoc for agriculture investment managers.
Headlines in the farmland REIT market this week contributed to the debate about suitable investment structures in agri.
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Kevin Schwartz, president at Paine & Partners, talks about the opportunities presented by consolidation in the industry.