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Jim Rogers

09 Nov 2011AFR

Commodities trader Jim Rogers, known for his investment prowess alongside George Soros, is in Australia to launch a new rural land fund which is seeking to raise up to $350 million to buy farms in northern NSW

05 Sep 2011Agrimoney

Agrifirma looks abroad after $80m Brazil tie-up

Agrifirma Brazil, the well-connected farmland investment company, is investigating opportunities outside South America after placing most of its Brazilian agriculture operations into a joint venture with private equity heavyweight.

10 Aug 2011Bloomberg

Being like Soros in buying farmland lets investors reap 16% annual gains

Investors are pouring into farmland in the US and parts of Europe, Latin America and Africa as global food prices soar.

10 Aug 2011Top1000Funds

Quantum co-founder bullish on commodities

Jim Rogers, the co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum hedge fund, is particularly bullish about agriculture saying that shortages in a range of agricultural products will produce strong prices not only in those commodities but also in farm land.

01 Aug 2011SMH

Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm

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".

14 Apr 2010Financial Times

Brazilian farms sow seeds of openness

“It’s not common in Brazil to find farmers presenting accounts to international investors. What you can see here is the new model for agribusiness in Brazil,” says André Pessôa, co-ordinator of the Rally da Safra.

25 Nov 2009BusinessWeek

Jim Rogers on why gold is glittering so brightly

"It's very, very cheap, it's incredibly fertile, and it hasn't been overexploited. And if you take in some expertise and some machinery and some fertilizer, you should make a lot of money," says investment guru Jim Rogers of Africa's farmlands

17 Aug 2009Sterling Knight

Farmland investment - Next bubble or undervalued asset?

"In any resource sector, if you want to get involved, you always want to be in the upstream. It doesn't matter whether it's mining, whether its oil and gas or agriculture," says ABN AMRO's Tariono.

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