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Instos turn increasingly to real assets

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... assets. It found 46% of respondents had increased allocations to real estate, infrastructure, commodities, timber and farmland in the past three years, while 60% expect to do so in the next 18 months. "Increasing life expectancies around the world are ...

UBS launches farmland investment service

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
UBS Global Asset Management has established an Australia and New Zealand farmland investment advisory service to meet the growing institutional demand for assets, particularly from Asia. The new capability will offer direct farmland ownership and exposure ...

Govt push for foreign infra investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... Minister Emerson said the future of Australia's food production requires big foreign investment, not necessarily in the farmland itself but in the surrounding infrastructure that supports it. "This is a proposal involving foreign investors investing ...

Grain price hints at strong growth: CFSGAM

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... the safer investments." CFSGAM focuses on investing in companies that are increasing agricultural production, such as farmland consolidation, along with seed technology and smarter technology applications but reasons that it is diversity that is the ...

Instos switch $100bn mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... reflecting a trend for smaller mandates, said Mercer. A fresh development unseen in previous years is the rise of agriculture/farmland-related mandates. Last year, around 107 manager searches were conducted specifically relating to agriculture, three ...

Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
Institutional investors may want to broaden their investment scope to farmland after a report found investments in agricultural property prices have fallen from the pre-crisis highs and may benefit from rising commodity prices. The Cerulli Edge: Global ...

Danger signs ahead but bargain stocks a-plenty: Faber

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... said). As uncorrelated investments to more established equity markets, Faber also sees opportunities in plantations and farmland (in Latin America and Ukraine), Japanese banks and new regions including Cambodia and Mongolia. In short, Faber believes ...

Broadacre price boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... markets have been growing steadily since 2001 and accelerated in 2007 with prices for food, agricultural commodities, farmland and related products and services all increasing. The surge in agricultural prices in 2007 alone contributed to a 20 per cent ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... hundreds of millions on water conservation projects in the face of the current drought that has about a half of the nations farmland drought declared. The Murray-Darling system now has the worst water flows in the 114 years that records have been kept ...
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