Executive vice-president Charlie Pringle says markets in Japan, Korea and China helped motivate a push to raise exposure to the region within its $1.2bn evergreen fund to as high as 30%.
The head of natural capital at Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation says the process followed for the Tasmanian asset was the same as for CEFC’s other partnerships with foreign investors.
The Canadian pension manager has now committed to three Australian agricultural platforms in three years.
The firm invested in the flavored ingredients and beverages company in 2017 through its Food Chain Fund IV vehicle.
The majority of the asset will operate as a biodiversity net-gain habitat bank, with the firm calling Carlshead Farm its ‘first biodiversity investment.’
Politicians and farming advocacy groups have slammed the acquisition of Rushy Lagoon by Gresham House, Aviva Investors, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, but Gresham House’s CIO says the criticism is unwarranted.
Made Group’s expansion has come amid an increased consumer focus on food and beverages that deliver health benefits.
Spring Point CIO Margot Kane says the social impact organization's 2019 backing helped prove a strategy that has since attracted $450m from traditional LPs.
The Sydney-headquartered firm acquired 91,000 acres of Oklahoma timberland from Rayonier in 2024 and launched a global natural capital fund targeting $750m in mid-June.
Agricultural investors are looking to cash in on the Australian government’s lucrative offers to purchase water entitlements, while a new source of tension emerges in the shape of water demand from data centers.