Institutional Investors

The estate agency's new report on US farmland shows it has outperformed other real assets over the past 15 years and is continuing to do so.

CannaVest, a manufacturer and distributor of hemp derivatives, closed a $6.5m financing with an undisclosed institutional investor.

There is huge demand for agriculture investments in the Middle East region, but the $1.2tn Islamic finance markets need more suitable products in the sector, according to Saif Shawqi, assistant business developer at Shariyah Review Bureau.

Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation has approved a $400 million allocation to infrastructure for the upcoming fiscal year and is set to add agri and timber assets to its portfolio for the first time.

MetLife Timberland Finance Group is hiring a new timberland field representative to oversee business development and accounts for MetLife’s timberland loans business in the southern US and Brazil.

The fund manager is expecting to announce a first close on $300m this month ahead of a second closing on $500m in June.

The $305.3bn California Public Employees’ Retirement System has put 300,000 acres of timberland around Louisiana up for sale, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.

The association's global survey revealed that about 50% of LPs want to build their agribusines exposure in each emerging market region.

The Brazilian investment bank's Gerrity Lansing talks about investor quality, pipelines, Brazil's advantages and what's next for BTG Pactual.

Stevia First Crop, a California-based agricultural biotechnology firm that focuses on the industrial scale production of stevia, raised the capital to expand research and development.