Institutional Investors

The re-up by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is part of the pension fund's strategy to draw stable, long-term returns from consumer staples.

Private companies from China and other countries have shown significant interest in acquiring Australia's biggest agricultural land holdings.

Maine Public Employees’ Retirement System will commit to the newly-created joint venture between Plum Creek and Silver Creek.

The firm began marketing its SEAF India Agribusiness International Fund II in September targeting $150m. The fund will invest $20m to $25m in small and medium enterprises, including food supply and other agribusinesses in India.

Agri as an asset class is still little understood, according to delegates at this week's Agri Investor Forum in Chicago.

An unnamed Chinese-Israeli investor group is expected to add to the $4m Agrinnovation close.

The fund will back infrastructure and agricultural projects, and could double Australia's agricultural output.

John Chiang urges CalPERS and CalSTRS to work with him to 'mop up another private equity industry mess'.

The REIT could boost returns by more than 13 percent by charging the wind farm developer contracted by the internet giant $2,600 per acre, a significant premium on the current $275 per acre.

The New Zealand dairy fund manager's second fund, launched just five months after the closure of its first fund, has a target of $300m with a hard-cap of $500m.