Macquarie Group

Agriculture investment: Solid ground for unstable times
- CNBC
- 08 November 2011
As the global financial downturn pushes investors into finding alternative business ventures, land investment has become an attractive proposition.
Brazil thwarts Macquarie crop move
- Stock & Land
- 07 November 2011
Group's $700 million international crop fund has been dealt a serious blow with new foreign investment restrictions on rural property in Brazil stalling its expansion.
Agri-investing for the long term: The investment case for responsible investments in agriculture
- onValues
- 02 August 2011
Summary report of the conference hosted June 17, 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland
Nation feeds Gulf's appetite for ownership
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Hassad plans to spend $US350 million ($318 million) in Australia to secure food supplies for Qatar, which imports 95 per cent of its food.
Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".
Investments that will grow
- The Australian
- 15 June 2011
The global financial crisis may have hit tax-effective agribusiness schemes hard, but the prospects of the small group of companies that survived are anything but gloomy. "We're actually tapping into the new GFC, which is the global food crisis," says Wayne Overall, executive director of agribusiness managed investment scheme operator Almond Investors Limited
What price NZ? Land bid tests limits
- NZ Herald
- 27 May 2011
Last week, bids closed for an 83% stake in Fonterra's biggest supplier, Dairy Holdings, which oversees 72 South Island farms. Bidders reportedly include Chinese dairy giant Bright Dairy, a pastoral fund owned by Australian investment bank Macquarie Group, British private equity firm Terra Firma. US private equity firm Carlyle Group and the Harvard Endowment Fund.
Food profits to rise: Macquarie
- Financial Standard
- 19 May 2011
Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management owns 31,500sq km of Australian grazing land on which it runs cattle and sheep.
The changing face of agricultural business
- Farm Weekly
- 30 December 2010
"We want to make agriculture sexy," says the head of Macquaraie's Retail Agribuiness operation.
South America tops farmland investors' wish-list
- Reuters
- 10 November 2010
Private equity and fund managers name South America a top place to buy, lease and manage agricultural lands for profit.
Pastoral holdings remain a family affair
- The Australian
- 30 October 2010
Fears that faceless corporations and international investors would become the new barons of the Australian bush have proved to be unfounded
Investors seeing farmland as safer bet than stocks
- LA Times
- 19 September 2010
Wary of fluctuations on Wall Street, more wealthy Americans, private funds and foreigners are putting money into parcels of cornfields, fruit orchards and other US agricultural products.