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New Agriculture’s Bruce King and New Forests’ Mark Rogers discuss the new division’s strategy, what investors want from the asset class, and the potential blend of farmland and forestry into a single investment product.

Laguna Bay Fund 2 has raised all its capital to date from Washington State Investment Board and is targeting A$750m in total.

The firm raised the figure from existing investors and has also made three new hires across its natural capital platform.

Capital growth of Australian farmland fell to 3.7% in Q2 2022, with permanent farmland seeing asset values fall on an annualized basis.

For better or worse, Oaktree’s entry into Moldovan agribusiness Trans-Oil has brought the firm into the ideological battle underlying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine presents challenges and opportunities for Oaktree’s 2019 investment into Moldovan agribusiness Trans-Oil.

Agri Investor held its first ever conference in Japan as local LPs and global asset managers gathered to discuss the benefits of adding farmland and timberland to investment portfolios in a volatile investment environment.

Partner Richard Boos says the direct and indirect impacts of issues such as inflation and the Russia-Ukraine war mean raw materials for food products through to packaging and logistics have been affected.

Managed by US-based asset manager International Farming, SFT could become the first farmland-focused investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange.

QIC, New Forests and Macquarie Asset Management are taking different approaches to the nascent asset class, but there are common themes.