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Blue Sky gets court order against former directors over data downloads
Australian court bans three former Blue Sky directors, Riparian Capital Partners and Pinnacle Investment Management from using proprietary data allegedly downloaded while the executives worked at their former firm.
‘We’ve had to be flexible, because if you are not flexible, you die’
With C$400m deployed from Fiera Comox's debut vehicle, partner Bob Saul explains why the firm has shifted focus from a search for assets with existing cashflow to earlier-stage opportunities.
Permanent crop opportunities improving, despite Midwest distress
Trade war has had little impact on LP demand for exposure to Farmland Investors’ open-ended vehicle, says UBS.
Hancock expects to re-open timber and farmland fund in 2019
The $706m Hancock Timberland and Farmland Fund has backed a number of acquisitions, say portfolio managers.
Hamilton Lane: Alpha search drives ag/infra convergence
Managing director Brent Burnett says branching out into 'farm-to-market' infrastructure has proved attractive for managers of both agriculture and infrastructure-focused funds.
Farmer Mac’s president highlights energy-ag convergence
After taking the helm at the NYSE-traded secondary marketplace for agricultural loans in October, Brad Nordholm tells Agri Investor it is getting harder to make generalizations about its agricultural borrowers.
NJDOI enters farmland, backing Homestead with $100m
A memo from acting director Corey Amon highlighted Homestead’s ESG policy and the downside protection offered by “lease structures that transfer the burden of productive yield and crop prices to the farm operator.”
Alaska Retirement boosts permanent crop target, opens to direct
ARMB real assets investment manager Nicholas Orr stresses row crops’ limited return potential in calling for changes to the pension’s $852m farmland portfolio.
Gunn Agri Partners to use climate data to target properties for A$350m cropland fund
The Sydney-based manager is leaning on climate-change research to pick properties and is ‘confident’ returns will beat more passive strategies.
Blue Sky loses key personnel from water team – exclusive
Investment directors Michael Blakeney and Nick Waters are leaving in a development that MD Kim Morison described as ‘disappointing.’
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