By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UK-based Quilter Investors launched the Quilter Investors Timber Equity Fund as a sub-advised mandate within its WealthSelect Managed Portfolio Service. Managed by Pictet Asset Management, the platform will support sustainable forestry companies producing wood-based materials, or companies in the timber value chain that provide biodegradable alternatives to plastics, concrete, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) has moved to consolidate two of its majority-owned Australian broadacre cropping businesses, bringing together BFB and Daybreak Cropping to create one of the leading cereal growing operations in the country. With 41 farms across 10 aggregations spanning four states, the resulting […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As FarmTogether continues to work to democratize agricultural investing for all investors, farmland investment platform FarmTogether announced the launch of its Sustainable Farmland Fund. Historical data shows that over the past five decades, ROI on farmland investments have outperformed the CPI by 7.74 percent on average, while generating both […]
photo credit: LAWD By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Following the recent and very successful divestment of its 22,386-hectare (55,317-acre) Corinella Group in December 2021 for more than AUD360 million (US$269 million), Proterra Investment Partners has placed its remaining three aggregations on the market at a collective value of AUD400 million (US$295 million). Record-breaking sale […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Claridge, a Montreal-based family office, is partnering with Investissement Québec and the Fonds de solidarité FTQ to launch a C$100 million (US$78.5 million) investment fund with the goal of transforming food processing companies in Québec with growth potential into North American leaders. The food and beverage sector is a major […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmers Business Network (FBN) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced the launch of the FBN Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund (RAFF) – a novel financing program designed to reward U.S. farmers who meet certain benchmarks on factors, such as soil health and nitrogen efficiency, by employing regenerative production practices. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Open Prairie Rural Opportunities Fund, an $81 million private equity vehicle operating as a USDA-licensed Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC) providing capital for agribusinesses across rural America, has announced its first exit through the sale of Legacy Seed Companies. Upon the fund’s launch in 2016, Open Prairie partner and […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The Yield Lab Europe announced a second close of nearly €50 million (US$61 million) for its sustainable agrifood tech venture capital fund that included new investors the European Investment Fund through the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), Invest-NL, Allied Irish Banks, and new family office investors. St. Louis-based […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Australian listed investment firm Centuria Capital has entered into a bid implementation deed (BID) with fund manager Primewest for an off-market takeover offer of Primewest for A$600 million (US$462.5 million). If all conditions are met, once the transaction is complete the merger of the two complementary investment platforms will […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media XP Asset Management has hired Cleidson Rangel, a natural resources specialist and former Brazil Fund Manager with Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG) for almost 10 years, to head up its new Natural Resource Investments unit. The first goal for this new natural resources unit is the planned launch of […]
