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Macquarie Asset Management takes majority share in Australia's Fresh Produce Group
- Fruitnet
- 03 December 2024
FPG owns and operates approximately 1,200ha of premium farmland across Australia where it grows table grapes, citrus, and berries.
Japan’s PFJC corporate pension invests in Australian farmland
- Asian Investor
- 14 August 2023
Through Macquarie Asset Management, PFJC will invest in farmland with various crops, such as wheat, beans, cotton and avocados on farmlands spread across eastern and western Australia.
Australia: Supercharged ag investors see value in more than farmland
- QCL
- 04 August 2021
Agriculture, long overlooked as a handy defensive investment space by fund managers more interested in infrastructure, commercial real estate and shopping centres, has become the focus of big spending activity of late.
$300 million farm bid to bring Macquarie and Costa Group closer
- SMH
- 10 November 2020
Macquarie Group's $300 million takeover bid for a real estate investment trust, which owns vast farms across Australia, could pave the way for more farming deals involving the investment banking powerhouse and the fresh food giant Costa Group.
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets makes all-cash bid for Aussie farmland REIT
- Investable Universe
- 09 November 2020
Macquarie Group, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, has announced that one of its agricultural funds will seek to acquire all of the issued securities in Australian listed farmland REIT Vitalharvest
Who owns Australia? Our biggest land barons
- news.com.au
- 27 May 2020
You’d be surprised to learn that the billion dollar barons of Australian farmland are a Canadian government worker super fund, a New York teacher insurance fund and an Australian pastoral giant backed by a Dutch pension fund
Macquarie’s Viridis Ag, Primewest lead strong run of rural deals
- CRE
- 03 May 2020
Macquarie-backed Viridis Ag has bulked up its national broadacre cropping portfolio, buying a 356-hectare property in Belubula Valley, amid a steady stream of blue-chip farming deals in Australia.
Macquarie’s agriculture company extends its land clearing with precision farming
- Fifth Estate
- 06 August 2019
Macquarie Bank has come under fire for land clearing operations undertaken by Viridis Ag, a farming enterprise owned by the banking group’s agricultural investment management business, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Asset.
Macquarie snaps up 49% of Australia's massive Cubbie Station from China's Ruyi
- Reuters
- 02 August 2019
Australia’s Macquarie Group has purchased a 49% stake in cotton farm Cubbie Station from a consortium led by Chinese conglomerate Shandong Ruyi for an undisclosed sum
Agriculture: Germ of an asset class
- IP&E
- 02 July 2019
According to asset managers, a window is emerging for institutional money to flow into agriculture due to change of ownership, notably in markets such as Australia and the US.
Ex-Macquarie director Tim Hornibrook cops ASIC ban for fake email ploy
- SMH
- 16 February 2016
Mr Hornibrook, who was a former head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management, along with some members of his sales team, were found to have extracted sensitive commercial information from a rival fund.
Macquarie used fake email to get secrets
- Stock Journal
- 28 May 2014
Tim Hornibrook, head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management, obtained sensitive details about a competitor's profits, fee structure and returns by posing as a wealthy investor.