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Global AgInvesting Asia 2020
With influential Japanese institutional investors having already made allocations in the sector, and many more looking to follow suit, this is the year to join the 10th annual Global AgInvesting Asia conference, taking place online to provide for a safe and meaningful experience, 29-30 October 2020. GAI Asia brings together multi-national agribusinesses, ag-focused private equity and venture capital fund managers, institutional investors and other sector stakeholders.
Participate from home and benefit from insightful presentations by international experts to expand your knowledge and discover strategies for building diverse real assets portfolios that provide attractive yields and long-term capital appreciation. Online networking opportunities will facilitate building new relationships with operators, innovators and investors in global agriculture.
Agriculture investment opportunities offer numerous sustainable investment strategies that adhere to ESG, SDGs, Natural Capital, and responsible investing protocols. Myriad opportunities are represented by large-scale asset managers with AUM over $500 million, along with more nimble funds with an interest in agtech innovations. Global AgInvesting Asia provides a broad overview of the agriculture investment landscape and a clear view of where the real money is moving in the space.
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Global AgInvesting Asia 2019 Agenda
The Global AgInvesting Asia 2020 Agenda will be announced soon. View the Global AgInvesting Asia 2019 Agenda.
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Sponsorship Opportunities
If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Kate Westfall, Jared Rose, or Joel Hauer.
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FEES
Conference Registration | Registration includes all sessions, meals and networking activities | USD $2595 | Register |
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Note: All transactions will be made using the United States Dollar (USD) and the current daily exchange rate.
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In 2019, 50% of the audience represented major institutional investors.
Attendees met and mingled with leaders from:
Aioi Nissay Dowa Pension Fund, Aozora Investment Management Co., Ltd., Asset Management One, Capital Dynamics, Development Bank of Japan, Hamilton Lane (Japan) G.K., Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan Post Bank, Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd., Japan Strategic Capital Co., Ltd., Manulife Asset Management (Japan) Limited, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Ltd, Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd., Nikko Asset Management, Nippon Life Insurance Company, Nissei Asset Management Corporation, Pension Fund Association, Rating and Investment Information, Inc, SEIRYU Asset Management Ltd., Shinkin Central Bank, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management, Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, The Bank of Yokohama, Ltd., The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited, The Norinchukin Bank, Zenkyoren, and many more.
View a comprehensive list of attending organizations here.
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Agenda
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Thursday, 29 October 2020 | |||
07:45 - 08:00 | Welcome & Opening Remarks | ||
08:05 - 08:35 | Executive Interview with Mitsui & Co., a Pioneer in Ag Investing | ||
08:45 - 09:15 | Taking Stock: The Pandemic Reinforces the Compelling Case for Investment in Farmland | ||
09:25 - 10:10 | Japanese Regulatory Framework and Transactional Landscape for Agri/Food Investment Activities | ||
10:15 - 10:45 | Networking Break with Open Discussion | ||
10:50 - 12:00 | Establishing Universally Followed Standards for Measuring Sustainability in Agriculture | ||
12:10 - 12:35 | Private Equity Investing in Food & Agriculture | ||
12:45 - 13:15 | Evaluating Opportunities in Aquaculture | ||
13:15 - 13:45 | Networking Discussion & Key Takeaways | ||
Friday, 30 October 2020 | |||
07:45 - 08:00 | Welcome Remarks | ||
08:05 - 08:35 | Featured Presentation from The Norinchukin Bank | ||
08:40 - 09:10 | Agribusiness Private Equity - Bird Watching: Finding the Dead Canaries and Black Swans in 2020 | ||
09:20 - 09:50 | COVID-19 Disruptions & the Consequences of Printing Money | ||
10:00 - 10:30 | Investing in Permanent Crops and Farmland Plus | ||
10:30 - 11:00 | Networking Break with Open Discussion | ||
11:00 - 11:45 | Finding Opportunity in Food Waste | ||
12:00 - 12:30 | Update on the GAI Rankings & Trends Report: Overview of Active Investors in the Global Food & Ag Sector | ||
12:45 - 13:15 | Global Trends in Agricultural Innovation & Opportunities to Invest | ||
13:15 - 13:45 | Networking Discussion & Key Takeaways |
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Sponsors
If you are interested in joining these industry leaders as a GAI Sponsor,
please contact Kate Westfall or Jared Rose.
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Asset Japan Co., Ltd.
“To A Brighter Tomorrow”
Asset Japan Inc. forms "Asset Group" to solve problems such as human resources, money and time problems for individuals and corporate and to meet more specialized needs.
Set HR as main domain, provide consulting on several fields and educational project on financial issue. For individual customers, energy solution like solar power as disaster measure.
We suggest all stakeholder unique solution for customers brighter tomorrow as a life partner.
私たちアセットジャパンは、個人・法人すべてのお客様に対し、人材・お金・時間の悩みを解決すると共に、より専門的なニーズにお応えするために、グループ会社、パートナー企業様と「アセットグループ」を形成し、包括的なサービスを展開しています。
人材ソリューション・各種コンサルティング・教育啓蒙活動・エネルギーソリューションを主な事業領域に、個人から国際企業まで、ステークホルダーである皆さまが抱えるあらゆる問題を解消し、より豊かな未来を創造するためのパートナーとして、サービスを提供しています。
Hancock Natural Resource Group
Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG) is one of the world’s largest natural resource managers for institutional investors, managing a diverse global portfolio of farms and forests located in Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the United States, totaling US$14.0 billion total assets under management as of June 30, 2019. HNRG conducts business through two divisions, Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG) and Hancock Agricultural Investment Group (HAIG), and HNRG’s investments are integrated with comprehensive property management operations in each country through subsidiaries, affiliate companies, or investor owned entities. These include agricultural entities, Hancock Farmland Services (HFS) and Farmland Management Services (FMS), along with additional timberland and global agricultural focused entities. HNRG is a registered investment adviser, a wholly owned subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation and a part of Manulife Investment Management’s private markets platform.
Nuveen
Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA, is one of the largest investment managers in the world with $1 trillion in assets under management*.
Managing a broad array of assets across diverse asset classes, geographies, and investment styles, we provide investors access to a wide range of liquid and illiquid alternative strategies such as real estate, real assets (farmland, timberland, infrastructure), private equity and debt, in addition to both traditional and fixed income assets.
We offer agriculture strategies through our investment specialists AGR Partners and Westchester. AGR Partners provides growth capital to leading middle market agribusinesses and food companies. Westchester has more than 30 years of experience in acquiring, managing and marketing agricultural real estate assets around the world, and is the largest manager of farmland assets globally**.
For further information, visit nuveen.com.
*As of 30 Jun 2019.
**Source: Pensions & Investments, 30 Sept 2019. Rankings based on institutional tax-exempt assets under management as of 30 Jun 2019 reported by each responding asset manager.
Paine Schwartz Partners
A global leader in sustainable food chain investing, Paine Schwartz Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on investment opportunities in the fast-growing, dynamic global food and agribusiness sectors. The firm’s investment, operations and finance professionals invest throughout cycles across the food and agribusiness value chain and bring a collaborative and active management approach to portfolio companies.
8F Asset Management
8F is an impact-focused PE investment firm that invests globally in vertically-integrated aquaculture production and processing facilities. We aim to tackle the global challenge of healthy and sustainable protein production while creating material positive social and environmental impacts, and generating compelling returns for investors.
For this purpose, 8F has created Pure Salmon, a global land-based salmon aquaculture company using proven Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) technology to sustainable produce clean, fresh, traceable, and healthy Atlantic Salmon close to end consumers. Unlike traditional Salmon producers, Pure Salmon has zero impact on the Oceans & Ecosystems, minimal waste, land usage and resource consumption. Our fish is free of antibiotics, vaccines, chemicals, pesticides, micro-plastics and mercury pollution. Pure Salmon operates a local production for local consumption model, thereby reducing transport and carbon footprint.
With a global target production of 260,000 tons/year, Pure Salmon is already on its way to becoming the largest global sustainable Salmon producer.
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields is a leader among international law firms, providing business law advice of the highest quality throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. With more than 2,800 lawyers in 28 offices around the world, the firm provides a comprehensive service to national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments. Over the last five years, we have advised on over $1.5+tn of cross-border deals – more than any other firm in the world.
Laguna Bay
Laguna Bay is an experienced agricultural fund manager with around AUD700m under management in a range of agricultural sectors and operating strategies.
With a demonstrated ability to successfully originate, execute and manage large scale, investment-grade agricultural assets.
Laguna Bay's new diversified fund is seeded with over AUD300m of committed institutional capital and a significant amount of this fund has already been deployed and is operational.
Morrison Foerster
We are Morrison & Foerster. We are MoFo. We are synonymous with a commitment to client service and advisors to market-changing deals and impact litigation.
Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. We represent investment funds and startup companies, and over the years have supported their growth and development as leading industry players and household brands.
Kilter Rural
Kilter Rural is a specialist manager of Australian farmland, water and ecosystem assets.
For more than 15 years our philosophy has involved long-term, active stewardship of agribusiness and water assets to generate commercial, sustainable and transformative value.
Through the application of science, ag-technology and diligent water-resource management we sustainably and profitably transform underutilised farmland into highly efficient and valuable irrigated cropping operations. In combining regenerative agriculture with organic production, we have become the largest grower of irrigated organic cereal crops in Australia.
Our innovative approach to sustainable agriculture is shaping the future of impact investing to maximise opportunities provided by the drivers of food security, climate change, demographic change and sustainability. It is also helping us deliver measurable, tangible returns to communities while protecting local ecosystems.
Amid rapid environmental, social and market changes, we provide institutional and wholesale investors with access to farmland and water products designed to deliver long-term, non-correlated, inflation-protected returns.
Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
Company Name: MITSUI & CO., LTD.
Date of Establishment: Jul. 25, 1947
Representative: Tatsuo Yasunaga, President and Chief Executive Officer
Common Stock: ¥341,481,648,946 (As of Mar. 31, 2017)
Number of Employees: 5,971 (Consolidated 42,316) (As of Mar. 31, 2017)
Number of Offices and Overseas Trading Affiliates: 139 offices in 66countries / regions
Major Business Areas:
Utilizing our global operating locations, network and information resources, we are multilaterally pursuing business that ranges from product sales, worldwide logistics and financing, through to the development of major international infrastructure and other projects in the following fields: Iron & Steel Products, Mineral & Metal Resources, Infrastructure Projects, Integrated Transportation Systems, Chemicals, Energy, Food, Food & Retail Management, Healthcare & Service, Consumer Business, IT & Communication Business, Corporate Development Business.
商号: 三井物産株式会社
設立年月日:1947年(昭和22年)7月25日
代表者: 代表取締役社長 安永 竜夫
資本金: 341,481,648,946円 (2017年3月31日現在)
従業員数: 5,971名 (連結従業員数42,316名) (2017年3月31日現在)
事業所数: 139拠点 / 66ヶ国·地域
主な事業内容:
鉄鋼製品、金属資源、プロジェクト、機械·輸送システム、化学品、エネルギー、食料、流通事業、ヘルスケア·サービス事業、コンシューマービジネス事業、ICT事業、コーポレートディベロップメントの各分野において、全世界に広がる営業拠点とネットワーク、情報力などを活かし、多種多様な商品販売とそれを支えるロジスティクス、ファイナンス、さらには国際的なプロジェクト案件の構築など、各種事業を多角的に展開。
Pollination Group
Pollination is a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm, accelerating the transition to a net zero, climate resilient future.
Our people are the key to unlocking change. Brought together from across industries, we are global leaders in finance, investment, technology, business, law and policy.
We combine our diverse expertise to connect dots and see around corners where others can’t. With strong relationships at the highest levels of government and the private sector, we shift barriers and catalyse transformative partnerships.
Our clients span governments, businesses and public and private capital. Using our broad experience, we help navigate the climate transition, and design and invest in breakthrough ideas that deliver financial returns.
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Event Partners
If you are interested in joining Global AgInvesting as an event partner,
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Preqin
Preqin is the home of alternative assets, providing indispensable data, solutions and insights to support alternative asset professionals at every stage of the investment cycle. Since 2003, we have been the most trusted source of information on alternative assets, spanning private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, private debt, natural resources and secondaries. Our products and services are relied upon by more than 60,000 industry participants in over 90 countries, for a range of activities including fundraising, investor relations, asset allocation, fund manager selection and business development. Preqin is an independent business with over 400 staff based in New York, London, Singapore, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Manila.
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