real assets

A presentation to the pension details PGIM Agricultural Finance & Investments’ plan to raise $600m from a small number of investors and add to an existing $400m farmland portfolio.

Director of sovereign wealth research Javier Capape Aguilar says agriculture will be among key sectors in the near term for state-backed investors.

Angus Selby left Macquarie in October 2019 and serves as strategic advisor at Clear Frontier, a firm focused on conversation of US farmland to organic.

PGIM chief operating officer Taimur Hyat says other parts of the economy face greater risk of abrupt repricing due to the growing salience of climate risk.

The pension has been drawn to ag because the pandemic showed the importance of the food supply chain and few investors are targeting the opportunity.

Founder of KKR-backed RES Elliott Bouillion says a collaborative effort to operate assets and explore opportunities in Georgia shows the key role knowledge of local conditions plays in mitigation markets.

Food security fears made food and ag-focused technology a 'small but important' part of SOI investments in 2020, reflecting increased sophistication among operators.

Valoral Advisors founder Roberto Vitón says Hancock's entry into Chile’s ag sector comes amid US and European LP interest that has grown despite the country’s political challenges.

Analyst Dustin Aherin says ‘a unique combination of factors that we haven’t had in decades’ presents investors capable of surviving a full cattle cycle with a ‘great opportunity on the other side.’

Land Report editor Eric O’Keefe told Peoples Company’s Land Investment Expo the couple’s 240,000-acre farmland portfolio reflects a commitment to agriculture that will ‘change the way America farms.’