Macquarie Group Archive

  • Macquarie seeks crop landStock & Land16 Aug 10

    Macquarie seeks crop land

    Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.
  • Macquarie Agricultural Fund to own Brazil Soybean, grain farmBloomberg06 May 10

    Macquarie Agricultural Fund to own Brazil Soybean, grain farm

    Macquarie Group Ltd. plans to own and run 500,000 acres of soybean and grain farms in Brazil over the next three years
  • Macquarie interest in grain business elevatedStock & Land19 Mar 10

    Macquarie interest in grain business elevated

    Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management has started up the Macquarie Crop Fund to "acquire or lease grain and oilseed properties located in geographically diverse regions of Australia and Brazil".
  • Agricultural funds reap a rich harvestWealth Bulletin24 Dec 09

    Agricultural funds reap a rich harvest

    Agricultural funds made 9.5% last year, according to data provider BarclayHedge, while almost every other investment opportunity lost money.
  • Food security fears drive fund farm investmentsReuters02 Jul 09

    Food security fears drive fund farm investments

    The emergence of the farmland asset class is not without pitfalls with the provision of food always highly political and a tentative global economic recovery potentially threatened by the H1N1 flu pandemic, fund managers said.
  • Flow of investment dollars to farms seen growingReuters23 Jun 09

    Flow of investment dollars to farms seen growing

    From Kansas to Kenya, investment opportunities in a range of global farm-related ventures are increasingly drawing capital to what many players and analysts see as the early days of a burgeoning bull market in agriculture.
  • More on African land dealsGlobal Dashboard13 May 09

    More on African land deals

    More important is for Africa to realise its own potential for food production, which would in the long-term negate the need for these deals.
  • Leading experts to speak at Global AgInvesting 2009 conference in New YorkSoyatech11 May 09

    Leading experts to speak at Global AgInvesting 2009 conference in New York

    Aimed at public and private market investors, this conference will explore opportunities for global investments in agricultural lands, commodities and infrastructure in North and South America, Australia, China, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Gulf nations eye farmland in AustraliaReuters12 Dec 08

    Gulf nations eye farmland in Australia

    Middle Eastern countries flush with oil funds want to invest up to $1bn in Australian farmland as they extend a drive for food security to the world’s second-largest wheat exporter, a grains official said yesterday.