Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the largest foreign institutional investor in Australian agriculture, has acquired more than 8,000 hectares of farmland in New South Wales from Duxton Farms for A$70m.
- IPE Real Assets
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18 April 2024
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan portfolio now includes 130,000 acres of agricultural land globally, from apple orchards to row crop farmland and aquaculture assets, in Australia, Chile, Canada, the US and Portugal
AAM Investment Group has sold its 14,074ha Sunshine Farms Aggregation in the Lachlan Valley of New South Wales for an undisclosed sum and the buyer is believed to be the US pension fund manager Nuveen.
- Grain Central
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26 Mar 2024
An Australian management fund has nabbed another slice of historic Tasmanian farmland from billionaire Chinese businessman Xianfeng Lu and his troubled dairy company.
Canada's public worker pension fund manager PSP Investments has made a significant stride in Australia's agricultural sector by acquiring a majority stake in Ellerslie Free Range Farms, a leading egg producer, for $180 million.
Purchase of Australia's largest fruit grower by Driscoll's and US and Canadian private equity and pension funds includes six blueberry farms in Morocco and four berry farms in China.
The world’s largest manager of farmland assets, Nuveen Natural Capital, has taken advantage of Treasury Wine Estates’ decision to downsize its commercial wine business after acquiring water rights and 434 ha of its orchards.
Joe Lewis, the main shareholder of Australian Agriculture, a company that owns about 1 per cent of the Australia’s land mass, has pleaded guilty in a US court to insider trading.
- IN Queensland
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29 January 2024
Australia-based specialist private markets investment manager Roc Partners is to acquire 25% of the portfolio of rural land assets of New Zealand Rural Land Company for about $44 million.
- Farmers Weekly
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19 January 2024
The largest grain growing operation in Western Australia is expected to fetch close to $200 million after its owners, the Saudi Arabian government and a Perth-headquartered agricultural fund decided to sell.
The Costa family has joined other wealthy families and an institutional investor in piling into a $120 million equity raising to fund the acquisition and development of three irrigation properties.
- Commercial Real Estate
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17 December 2023
Some of Western Australia's most sought-after cattle country is set to move from Chinese to Canadian ownership in a newly struck deal.