Macquarie Group Archive

• 024 December 2009

  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.
• 12 July 2009

  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.
• 023 June 2009

  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.
• 013 May 2009

  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.
• 011 May 2009

  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.
• 012 December 2008

  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.