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New Forests buys into Burapha

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
... billion in assets under management across nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies. Its subsidiary New Agriculture recently launched a landscapes and natural capital investment strategy that invests in rainfed and irrigated row cropping ...

ANSC's Australian Food & Agriculture takeover tanks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation's (ANSC) bid to acquire the Bell family and Alastair Provan-owned Australian Food & Agriculture Company (AFA) for $780 million fell through. Nasdaq-listed ANSC, a special purpose acquisition company ...

Underinvestment in Southeast Asia a 'big issue' for Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... taken over 300 investors and corporate to the region with "specialised focus" across renewable energy, technology and agriculture. Financial Standard is a media partner of the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific 2025.

The productivity problem: Good ideas never put to use

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... innovation - applying new ideas and doing more with what we have also matters." The annual bulletin shows that the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry saw the fastest multifactor productivity growth at 7.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24, while multifactor ...

Warakirri hires regional manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... Faehndrich joins at a pivotal time for the business as it looks to broaden its retail footprint by leveraging its existing agriculture and equities offerings, and as it actively seeks to add and distribute new investment partners as part of the growth ...

Spatium partners to launch wholesale agricultural fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
Spatium Capital has kicked off a new joint venture with Invest Inya Farmer (IIF), an agriculture production assets investment platform, to provide wholesale investors access to private agriculture production assets across Australia and New Zealand. ...

QIC backs Virescent Ventures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... million in 37 investments that help transition the world to net zero. The portfolio spans clean energy, sustainable agriculture, circular economy, and smart cities. The firm invests in pre-seed to growth stages, with a focus on maximising emissions reduction ...

Rest appoints interim co-chief investment officers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024
... served in a variety of roles, though his primary focus was direct investments across unlisted property, infrastructure, agriculture, and private equity assets. Esposito has also been a senior member of Rest's wholly owned investment management company ...

GSFM hires retail business head

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
... asset classes including emerging market equities, global equities, Australian income products as well as evergreen agriculture REIT funds." On Fletcher's departure, McIntyre said: "Steve has been an incredible asset to GSFM during his 16 years with ...

Harris vs Trump: Key economic policy differences

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
... 1.3 million to 8.3 million workers - or around 5% of the workforce - and lead to loss of economic activity in the agriculture, manufacturing, and mining sectors. Despite their differences, Cunneen said both candidates would see increased US budget deficits ...