PSP

Corporate farmer buys top Yuna farm
- Farm Weekly
- 26 June 2021
An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board has purchased a grain farm in Yuna, Australia for about $30 million
Auscott sold to Canadian-backed Australian Food and Fibre
- Farm Online
- 17 May 2021
PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a further 40,000 hectares to its large farmland holdings in New South Wales.
Case study casts doubt over ESG claims of Canadian pension fund PSP’s major agriculture investment on Maui
- Responsible Markets
- 06 April 2021
Report finds the Canadian based pension plan is not living up to its own environmental, social responsibility, and corporate governance principles, resulting in adverse impacts on Maui’s environment and residents.
Beston Global sells South Australia dairy farm aggregation for A$40.4M
- GAI
- 18 June 2020
Beston Global Food Company has sold its four dairy farms in South Australia to PSP Investment and Warakirri Asset Management-backed Aurora Dairies in a US$27.8 million cash deal
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
Agriculture: Rising liquidity
- IPE Real Assets
- 06 April 2020
Large institutional investors are pouring capital into global agricultural markets, and Australia has been a key target.
Massive farm sale makes Western Australian history
- The Standard
- 21 February 2020
Daybreak Cropping, a partnership between Warakirri Asset Management and the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board, paid $97 million for the 22,000 ha broadacre farm.
Laguna Bay, Adveq Trust 2, sell largest Australian almond portfolio to PSP for more than A$350 million
- GAI
- 09 December 2019
PSP Investments has been doubling down on capital commitments in Australia’s ag sector – and particularly in almonds and water recently.
Canadian pension fund loads up on Australian water rights and almond farms
- SMH
- 03 December 2019
A Canadian pension fund has bought a huge parcel of Australian permanent water rights for $490M to irrigate almond trees, in a move that puts the spotlight on foreign ownership of farms and water resources as drought ravages the country.
Land grabbing a growing concern as climate change threatens food production
- Rabble.ca
- 27 November 2019
A century of ever-increasing farm size and land concentration is now leading Canada into a new era of speculation on farmland -- one where private companies not traditionally involved in agriculture are acquiring tracks of land.
PSP Investments acquires Australian agribusiness Webster in a deal valuing the company at $854 million
- GAI
- 06 October 2019
Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board has made another move to deepen its presence in Australian agriculture, taking full ownership of the largest irrigated farmer in Australia.
Canadian fund launches bid for Webster
- N Queensland Register
- 03 October 2019
Canadian fund manager PSP Investments, a public service pension fund, has put in an offer for Australia's Webster farms, including their water entitlements, that values the diversified agribusiness at $854 million