Rothschild Archive

  • Viagra SaleFinancial Times18 Jul 10

    Viagra Sale

    A farmland development group backed by Jacob Rothschild is to become the first Brazilian company to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange
  • Financiers scent food-security dealsFinancial Times17 Aug 09

    Financiers scent food-security deals

    As financiers seek to diversify their fee bases, investment banks are scenting an opportunity in Gulf states’ eagerness to secure long-term food supplies in the form of agricultural investment deals.
  • Le Maurice s’apprête à acheter des terres agricoles de première qualité au MozambiqueReuters15 Aug 09

    Le Maurice s’apprête à acheter des terres agricoles de première qualité au Mozambique

    Le Maurice prendra possession du bail de 20 000 ha de terres mozambicaines avant de les sous-louer à des investisseurs.
  • Gulf risks animosity with land grab dealsReuters13 Aug 09

    Gulf risks animosity with land grab deals

    Gulf states buying farmland in developing nations for food security face the risk of damaging their reputation as international investors as the deals are seen as land grabs, a Rothschild executive said yesterday.
  • David Stevenson: Farmland looks dirt cheapFinancial Times24 Jul 09

    David Stevenson: Farmland looks dirt cheap

    While everyone from the Rothschild’s – via the Agrifirma Brazil fund, run with Jim Slater – through to Nicola Horlick and UBS are snapping up farmland in Brazil, I’m fascinated by another niche: Canada and New Zealand.
  • Offshore farms for gulf food self-sufficiency hampered by hungry massesThe National15 Jul 09

    Offshore farms for gulf food self-sufficiency hampered by hungry masses

    Rothschild has recently formed a co-operation agreement with Rabobank, a leading global food and agricultural bank. The agreement covers co-operation for mergers and acquisitions and the equity capital market across a number of sectors including farm inputs and equipment, farm-based commodities, primary food processing, food processing and beverages.
  • Some large investors views on farmlandAgcapita26 Jun 09

    Some large investors views on farmland

    Soros recently became the largest shareholder in Adecoagro one of the leading agribusiness companies in South America whose main activities are the production of grains, rice, oilseed, dairy products, sugar, ethanol, coffee, cotton and cattle meat.
  • Betting the farmFortune/CNN10 Jun 09

    Betting the farm

    As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar. At least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.