Institutional Investors

Rhode Island is the latest state to reach its maximum number of commitments halfway through the year.

The investment platform will pursue US assets worth between $2m and $20m as it provides a forestry investment access point to accredited individual investors.

The firm has also raised €260m for its debut Food Ecosystem Fund, which it expects to close on €300m in Q3.

West coast permanent crop specialists Paul Frankel and Jeff Steen, partners at Kachina, consider the most viable options for institutional investors to reduce their California ag exposure.

The Japanese trust bank made its first timberland investment last year amid a trend that has now led to New Forests being acquired by Mitsui & co and Nomura.

Roc Partners partner Frank Barillaro said that many blue-ribbon Australian farmland assets sold to offshore investors may never come back into domestic hands, with superfunds still reluctant to participate in the market.

PSP Investments dominated the first Agri Investor awards, underlining the Canadian pension’s status as a heavyweight in the global food and natural capital world.

We celebrate the managers, investors and innovators who won awards across 31 categories in the inaugural Agri Investor Global Awards.

Roc Partners pipped Warakirri Asset Management to the Asia-Pacific Fund Manager of the Year award.

British fund manager Gresham House took home the fund manager of the year awards as Sweden’s AP3 won the institutional award.