Real Assets

Detlef Schoen, principal at DS Assets and chairman at Aquila Capital Farms Australia, explains how he looks at the risk-return profile of farmland investing and why institutional investors are sometimes forced to invest at the top of a food commodity cycle.

The merger will make Farmland Partners the biggest US farmland REIT, with executives hoping the move will give the company further access to global institutional investors.

Philip Cummins has said the case for international institutions to invest in agri is 'very compelling' and highlighted some reasons Australian investors won't take the plunge.

The IFC is stepping up its focus on Myanmar, where 70% of the population generate their main income from farming.

The manager is selling its beef cattle Quilpie Aggregation from its PKA-backed fund, including a ten-year government carbon abatement contract.

The Australian government has published its register of foreign interests in agricultural land, revealing that Chinese investors own less than half a percentage of foreign-held land.

The firm's newly appointed president Angie Davis says the firm sees a deep pipeline of opportunities in Brazil as it analyses opportunities in Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.

The advisory scope for potential candidates includes private equity, credit, real assets and opportunistic investments.

Agriculture, food and retail will be top priorities for the Sino-Russian vehicle, which will also target mining and infrastructure investments.

Aquila and New Forests say where they think the main risks lie and suggest which areas LPs should be aware of when doing their due diligence.