farmland

Eric Cooperström joins from NatureVest and will seek to develop agri and timber investment opportunities that ‘remove carbon from the atmosphere.’

Darren Rabenou says a key part of the firm's future approach will include partnering with LPs on co-investments as it seeks opportunities in area including in storage, processing and agtech.

A presentation to the pension details PGIM Agricultural Finance & Investments’ plan to raise $600m from a small number of investors and add to an existing $400m farmland portfolio.

Agriculture showed ‘remarkable resilience’ as an asset class over 2020 as returns held relatively steady throughout the year.

Angus Selby left Macquarie in October 2019 and serves as strategic advisor at Clear Frontier, a firm focused on conversation of US farmland to organic.

Crowdfunder FarmTogether has identified a $1.1trn opportunity in the US within the $1m to $10m segment of the market, which it believes will appeal to institutional investors.

The start-up has been involved in farmland assets with double-digit values and expects to be ‘active across the spectrum of size,’ says CEO Carter Malloy.

A huge cropping portfolio has hit the market in Australia, which will provide an indication of the true level of institutional appetite for farmland.

Tom Eisenhauer says concerns around volatility, inflation and environmental risk that inspired him to launch the Canadian farmland firm in 2009 are even stronger today.

103,006 ha portfolio is owned by investors in MIRA’s Macquarie Crop Partners, which is nearing the end of its 10-year term.