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The blended finance fund manager previously structured the $1.6bn Galapagos debt-for-nature swap, in which CI2 was an investor.

Barchemy is a Pennsylvania-based specialist in chocolate and confectionery ingredients for a range of industries.

Superannuation fund Brighter Super may be committing more to agriculture than most of its peers, but chief investment officer Mark Rider says it is doing so on an opportunistic basis.

The investments amount to a 3.5x increase in the value of the pension’s forestry portfolio, which has been in place since at least 2017.

The 2022-vintage fell marginally short of its £400m target and has received commitments from a range of LPs.

The fund manager’s latest forestry vehicle has been backed by a single European institutional investor.