Chinese buyers have snapped up more than $100bn in overseas assets this year and participants in sister publication PEI’s Asia roundtable say the appetite for foreign deals is set to grow.
The firm, previously known as UBS AgriVest, now has assets under management of $1.2 billion but still believes row commodity crop farmland is too expensive.
The French firm is aiming to double its funds under management in real and alternative assets by 2020.
The Gunn Agri Cattle Fund has grown in gross asset value to A$96.9m after only two quarters of operation.
The Canadian institution has agreed to offer intellectual support to China’s economic planners as they seek to shake up the pension sector.
The Australian fund manager, fresh from a A$280m first close for its co-mingled fund, has bought Banongill Station, a 17,000 acre property in Victoria’s Western District.
The firm is considering investing up to a quarter of mid-cap buyout Fund VI in food and agribusiness, and is already looking at deals.
The EBRD says it is focusing on climate-change friendly solutions in Morocco and the surrounding region in the lead up to COP22 in Marrakesh this year.
A Timberland Investment Resources partner, TIR Europe's strategy is to anchor the fund with core assets in the US Southeast, as well as considering a strategic opportunities in Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand.
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