institutional investors

The partnership with PeakBridge will seek to make investments of between $3m to $5m in sectors including ingredient innovation and farming technology.

As innovation picks up and new players are attracted to the natural capital space, we want to recognize the standard bearers of the industry.

No longer an obscure investment theme, the strategy is drawing interest from both public and private LPs as supply chains are rethought.

With more assets listed in recent weeks, it is clear asset managers see market conditions as an opportune time to make a return.

A trickle of fund managers choosing to link carried interest to their impact and ESG targets is good news for private markets, showing the industry is serious about its sustainability goals.

The separate account’s buy-and-lease strategy was trialed by the GP in 2019 and involves a flex lease arrangement that is conducive to organic farming.

The Swedish pension has roughly $1bn in total forestry investments, around 80 percent of which is through direct and co-investment structures.

The world of agricultural private market investments has had a strong start to the year, with one of biggest fund closes in the past couple of years and significant SPAC transactions.

Veripath Farmland Partners and crowdfunder FarmTogether, both of which cater to retail investors, have respectively hit AUM milestones of $160m and $100m this summer.

The North Carolina-headquartered firm surpassed its hard-cap to close its distinct credit vehicle at $325m and took approximately $115m in co-investments.