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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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Nuveen
Nuveen, the investment manager of TIAA, offers a comprehensive range of outcome-focused investment solutions designed to secure the long-term financial goals of institutional and individual investors. Nuveen has $930 billion in assets under management as of 31 December 2018 and operations in 23 countries. Its affiliates offer deep expertise across a comprehensive range of traditional and alternative investments through a wide array of vehicles and customized strategies. For more information, please visit www.nuveen.com.
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Ceres Partners
Ceres Partners is a registered investment advisor focused exclusively on investing in Agriculture & Food. Ceres manages two investment strategies: Farmland and Growth Equity.
Ceres Farms is an open ended commingled vehicle launched in December of 2007. The Fund currently manages over $730M in AUM comprising approximately 118,000 tillable acres of prime U.S. farmland. The Fund allows investors to participate directly in a diversified portfolio of income producing farmland that is located across 10 states. Ceres does not outsource any farm management. All investment professionals have both farming and finance backgrounds and actively manage the portfolio from South Bend, IN.
Ceres Sustainable Food & Agriculture Fund II is targeting $75MM to invest growth equity in scalable agriculture businesses in North America. Fund I, which closed in 2017, has invested in four companies to date: Proximity Malt, a producer of locally-sourced malt in for the craft beer industry; Kampachi Farms, an open ocean aquaculture producer of high-value sustainable fin fish; Hop Head Farms, a leading independent grower, processor and marketer of specialty hops; and Sugarloaf Crush, a state-of-the-art custom crush winemaking facility for smaller, high-end vineyards.
Farmer Mac
Farmer Mac is a vital part of the agricultural credit markets and was created to increase access to and reduce the cost of capital for the benefit of American agricultural and rural communities. As the nation’s premier secondary market for agricultural credit, we provide financial solutions to a broad spectrum of the agricultural community, including agricultural lenders, agribusinesses, and other institutions that can benefit from access to flexible, low-cost financing and risk management tools. Farmer Mac‘s customers benefit from our low cost of funds, low overhead costs, and high operational efficiency. For more than a quarter-century, Farmer Mac has been delivering the capital and commitment rural America deserves.
Hancock Agricultural Investment Group
The Hancock Agricultural Investment Group (HAIG) is one of the largest and most established institutional farmland investment managers. Our vertically integrated farmland investment platform stretches across the major agricultural growing regions in Australia, Canada and the U.S. HAIG manages US$3.0 billion of agricultural real estate (as of September 30, 2018) for institutional investors, including public and corporate pension funds and taxable investors. We directly operate and lease nearly 356,000 acres of prime permanent and row cropland. We have the ability to offer investors a number of farmland investment structures to meet their overall portfolio requirements within the farmland asset class.
International Farming Corporation
International Farming is a US-based agriculture manager with roots in North Carolina agribusiness back to 1827 and a team that has farmed in the Americas, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The firm leverages (i) extensive agricultural operating knowledge, (ii) multi-generational industry relationships, (iii) deep understanding of the vertically-integrated farm value chain and (iv) an innovative, in-house ag-tech solutions platform. IFC’s platform enables its management team to frequently source off-market transactions and manage institutional-quality farmland and related operating assets for its investors.
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AMERRA Capital Management LLC
AMERRA Capital Management, LLC is a New York based agribusiness investment manager. AMERRA deploys capital through both private equity and private debt strategies. AMERRA acts as a boutique merchant bank supporting growth-oriented, private agribusinesses. AMERRA also provides a full spectrum of customized capital products ranging from senior secured to junior debt investments including various forms of working capital, land transformation and CAPEX programs, to private equity.
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.
Peoples Company
Peoples Company is a nationally recognized land transaction and advisory firm that offers land management, land appraisal and land investment services in 21 states across the country. We serve clients on large and complex land transactions in both row crop and permanent crop assets. This includes working with unique financial structures and management systems such as organic transition and alternative crops. Peoples Company takes a different approach to managing farmland and does so in a socially responsible manner with environmental issues being actively addressed. Our managers utilize advancing technologies to document and analyze yield and production history, fertility, soil health, conservation practices, and capital improvements to improve yields, increase income, and maximize appreciation of each asset. With boots on the ground across throughout the major US agricultural production regions we identify high volume deal flow and develop comprehensive high-resolution business plans identifying arbitrage on every asset we manage. We service clients through separate account and direct ownership models.
For more information about the solutions we offer to connect landowners and investors with farm operators, visit www.PeoplesCompany.com or call (855) 800-5263 (LAND).
PGIM
PGIM's Agricultural Investments team has a fully integrated platform to serve third party investors seeking equity exposure to farmland across the United States in both permanent crop and row crop strategies. With more than 40 years of fiduciary experience in owning and operating farms, our team builds each portfolio from the ground up and looks for opportunities that are accretive to the portfolio while staying within the client's investment objectives.
PGIM Real Estate Finance's Agricultural Finance team has been lending to institutional investors and families for over 120 years. We are a stable and trusted capital partner, offering a full suite of competitive loan products for a wide range of agricultural and timber properties.
As the agricultural market changes, borrowers and investors need help navigating new challenges and opportunities. With our strong expertise, large hold limits, and customized products, we design solutions to meet our clients' diverse objectives.
PGIM is the Global Investment Management Businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc.
Proterra Investment Partners
Proterra Investment Partners is an alternative investment manager focused on private equity investments in the natural resources sectors of agriculture, food, and metals & mining. Proterra manages $2.6 billion in AUM in its three investment strategies. Our fund’s investments reflect fundamental perspectives on the macro- and micro-economic trends driving the markets where we invest. Through an emphasis on strong local relationships and expertise, Proterra seeks to provide unique opportunities for our investors. Proterra launched as a standalone investment advisor for the Black River Asset Management private equity funds on January 1, 2016. The Funds spun out from Black River Asset Management, a wholly-owned, independently managed subsidiary of Cargill.
Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin is a full-service global law firm, with more than 1,900 lawyers in 20 offices across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. Our diversified practice encompasses the full spectrum of corporate, transactional, litigation, capital markets and regulatory matters. We represent a broad range of clients including multinational and domestic corporations, governments, regulatory bodies and individuals. Our multi-disciplinary, Global Agribusiness and Food Practice includes lawyers who have direct experience running agribusinesses, have scientific and technical degrees and have worked in senior policy, regulatory, legislative and executive offices within government. We are among a handful of firms with a dedicated group focused on this sector. With clients ranging from entrepreneurs and early-stage startups, to private and public companies, to angel investors, venture capital firms and corporate investment funds, we assist companies that are working to improve productivity in agriculture, develop and apply new technologies and business practices, promote greater distribution efficiencies, reduce costs, and contribute positively to sustainability and to the environment.
Tillable
More than 40% of all U.S. farmland is rented, and while landowners collect $32 billion in rent every year, it’s estimated that they leave $8 billion on the table due to underpriced rent. As the first true online marketplace for farmland rental, Tillable gives landowners the information they need to make important decisions about their farmland investments. Landowners and farmers connect on Tillable’s convenient and secure digital platform through our unique price discovery process, which helps determine fair market rent. With Tillable, landowners can optimize the financial return on their land, gain visibility into how the acreage is used, and identify farmers who will act as responsible stewards for their property’s long-term viability. Tillable also brings much-needed efficiency and reliability to the market, helping owners secure multiple offers for farmland rental, capture data on land and farmer performance, and streamline administration through online leases and automatic digital payments. For more information, call 833.845.5225 or visit tillable.com.
US Agriculture
US Agriculture is a registered investment advisor offering investors a unique combination of extensive institutional investment experience along with a broad and deep array of agricultural experience and knowledge. Our team of investment professionals has decades of experience working with the world’s largest pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors. US Agriculture’s team of experienced investment professionals is able to draw upon the firm’s extensive agricultural resources to provide investors a research-based approach to the development of investment strategies and the construction of investment portfolios.
US Agriculture’s investment team combines first-hand insights into the needs and requirements of institutional investors with hands on agricultural experience, providing an important advantage. US Agriculture offers investors thoughtful investment strategies guided by its research-based approach to the development of investment strategies and investment portfolios. Our deep and extensive relationships allow us to efficiently and effectively implement and execute these strategies for our clients.
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AgIS Capital
AgIS Capital is a private equity firm that invests in farmland and related operating companies. After decades of experience and investing several billion dollars in the agricultural sector, the principals of AgIS Capital formed the company in 2013. Since that time, the firm has raised nearly a billion dollars of institutional capital.
The firm conducts its business in separate accounts with a limited number of large institutional client relationships. AgIS employs an opportunistic approach to investing and believes that combining farmland and private equity investments creates value for clients. The firm is based in Boston, MA with additional offices in Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and California.
Visit our website at: www.agiscapital.com or contact Jeff Conrad at jconard@agiscapital.com for more information.
Aqua Capital
Aqua Capital is a private equity firm focusing on growth control investments in mid-market companies throughout the Brazilian and South American agribusiness and food value chain. It has $650 million in AUM including co-investments, and closed Fund II at $370 million, the hard cap, in June 2017. Since its inception in 2009, it has allocated over $500 million through 20 control acquisitions in 13 platforms and seven add-ons. Aqua Capital builds companies with high scarcity value to become key targets for domestic and international strategic buyers. It has the largest dedicated agribusiness private equity team in the region. Its investment professionals and operating partners have over a century of joint agribusiness private equity and operational experience.
CBRE
As part of the Land Services Group, over 100 real estate professionals are focused on Land including Agribusiness with coverage in 49 US and Canadian offices and every major agricultural production area. We track the latest trends in the local market and keep current with the constant changes on the regulatory landscape. CBRE leads the industry in tools and technology, from Valuation VIEW for appraisals to Deal Flow for listings. Among the newest: Dimension, a powerful GIS tool that overlays site maps with market data on consumers, competition, traffic counts and more. With a blend of local focus and global scope, our group hits the target markets for listed properties. Our robust relationships and listing service put us in front of land investors, high-net worth individuals and family offices the world over. That reach means more opportunities for faster sales at better terms.
Celeres
Since 2002, Céleres® has provided its national and international clients with analysis and consulting services related to the dynamics of the Brazilian agricultural sector and other regions, from the perspective of investment opportunities and the creation of value along the value chains of the agribusiness.
With a team of highly specialized professionals, the consulting approach includes the technical, environmental, legal and economic analysis of investments in the agricultural sector in Brazil and in other countries of South America.
We operate in the segments of inputs, retail, and in farm production, as well as logistics and infrastructure in the agricultural sector in all phases of the investment process and understanding of the competitive environment.
Among our services, we highlight the mapping and identification of investment opportunities, the accomplishment of operational, environmental and commercial due diligence, and, finally, the technical and economic advice for investors working in the agricultural sector.
Conservis / Rabo AgriFinance
Conservis and Rabo AgriFinance are partnering to advance ag data utilization on-farm. The companies are co-developing technology that makes it possible for U.S. crop farmers to seamlessley - and nearly effortlessly - connect their real-time field and management data with financial results.
The Conservis farm management system organizes all of the data coming in from different sources, eliminates manual entry, creates winning business plans and confidently manages cost and production operations throughout the year. Farmers own their data and control when Rabo AgriFinance and other business partners receive information. Sharing knowledge and expertise, Conservis and Rabo AgriFinance are positioned to explore advancements such as benchmarking, integrations with accounting software and other new services to create value throughout the food supply chain.
Rabo AgriFinance is a subsidiary of Rabobank, the world's largest food and ag bank.
Continental Grain Company / Arlon Group
Continental Grain Company (CGC) is a privately held holding company, with over two hundred years of experience in the food and agribusiness sectors. The Company manages a portfolio of over 30 investments across 18 subsectors and several different asset classes including direct investments, publicly traded securities and venture capital. CGC’s portfolio includes assets in the U.S., China and Latin America, employing over 10,000 people.
Arlon Group is a food and agriculture investment firm with a global network that invests in middle-market businesses across the entire food supply chain in the Americas. Arlon’s team brings extensive investment expertise and deep, local industry contacts as they seek to partner with growth-oriented businesses in the food and agriculture sectors. Arlon’s investment professionals work collaboratively across geographies, and Arlon’s portfolio companies benefit from the team’s shared knowledge of regional and global trends. Arlon's investment focus comes from its founding investor, Continental Grain Company, a 200-year-old leader in the food and agriculture space. Rabobank, a leading bank to the global food, beverage and agribusiness industry, is another key Arlon partnership. In Latin America, Arlon also works in partnership with VR Investments, a family owned Brazilian investment company with broad experience in Brazilian businesses. Arlon Group has approximately $1 billion in assets under management and is headquartered in New York with an office in São Paulo, Brazil.
CGC’s and Arlon’s investment professionals work collaboratively across geographies and bring extensive investment expertise and deep, local industry contacts as they seek to partner with businesses in the food and agriculture sectors.
Duxton Asset Management
Founded in 2009 following a spin-out from the Deutsche Bank Complex Assets team, Duxton is a leading alternative asset management firm, focusing on specialist investment opportunities for institutional, semi-institutional and high net-worth investors. It concentrates on global agricultural land and securities as well as emerging markets. The net value of assets under Duxton’s management and advice amounts to approx. USD 630m. Approximately USD $400 million of these assets are agricultural investments.
Duxton currently manages and advises investments in farming operations covering 540,000 hectares, spanning 5 continents, managed by highly specialized on the ground senior farmers and supported by over 13,000 farm hands and workers. Duxton has operating investments in Australia, Argentina, India, Tanzania, Vietnam, Zambia, Jamaica and New Zealand, and is currently working on live projects in Asia, Oceania, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Duxton’s experienced agribusiness investment team creates value by partnering with top tier farm managers and senior farmers on the ground and by adopting large-scale production systems to realise economies of scale. Duxton looks to increase enterprise value through creating operational efficiencies, adopting the latest farming technologies, vertical and horizontal integration and forging strong relationships with local end users to develop direct customer relationships.
Duxton employs 27 investment staff members, with offices in Singapore, Australia, and Germany.
ED&F Man Switzerland Ltd
Established in 1783, ED&F Man is a market leader in Sugar, Coffee, Molasses and Financial Services.
Building on over two centuries of expertise, ED&F Man Capital Markets is an established global leader providing a diversified value-added service to its customers.
Historically privately owned and operating like a partnership, ED&F Man employs 6000 personnel across 60 countries attracting industry experts in their field.
Corporate Social Responsibility is at the core of our organisation, within ED&F Man Capital Markets and as part of the wider ED&F Man Group. We believe in inspiring confidence and empowering change for our colleagues, organisations and communities we work with.
Equilibrium
Equilibrium is a global investment firm building sustainability driven real assets and private equity portfolios in agriculture, food and distributed waste-water-energy infrastructure for institutional investors. Through our research driven product development process, we bring our institutional clients unique market insights, investment opportunities, and accessible portfolios. We are often the first mover in our sector to spot a market trend or advantage, and translate that into an institutional scale portfolio. We create value through active management, executing an investor-operator model on our assets, projects, and portfolios.
Fotosintesis
Fotosintesis is an agricultural business development platform, focusing on investment opportunities in high-potential companies in the agricultural and forestry sectors in Mexico. Imports represent 55% of total fresh fruits and vegetables consumed in the US, half of these imports come from Mexico. USDA estimates imports from Mexico in fresh produce will double in the next decade. This is currently a 13-billion-dollar business that is only growing bigger and bigger every year.
Mexico´s leadership position is based on a unique and robust, yet extremely fragmented, production footprint. Furthermore, Mexican exports are comprised of hundreds of small to mid-size companies. Opportunities abound to consolidate and vertically integrate competitive companies in a sector with very attractive growth prospects.
Mexico is also a very appealing domestic market, with more than 120 million consumers with growing income and improving consumption patterns. Many of these demands are satisfied with import products that are also grown locally under extremely competitive conditions. We look to serve these growing demands, by acquiring existing companies that can substantially scale their local capabilities and capture this growth opportunity.
Gladstone Land Corporation
Gladstone Land is a publicly traded farmland REIT (NASDAQ: LAND) that acquires high-quality farms and farm-related properties in the United States that are leased on a net basis. Our primary focus is large fruit and vegetable farms leased to strong farm operators in prime growing regions. Our public stock gives investors liquidity and the ownership of a diversified portfolio of appreciating farmland with rental income distributed as a monthly dividend.
Gunn Agri Partners
Gunn Agri Partners is an independent Australian farmland manager and farm services company. Gunn Agri principals have decades of hands on experience from farm owner, to farm manager and heads of some of Australia’s premier farming businesses, plus global asset and investment management experience.
Gunn Agri currently manages A$200m of assets across more than 2.5 million acres of livestock pasture and row cropping farmland. In addition to this Gunn Agri has provided advisory services to another $300m of assets across Australia, Africa and the Americas.
Our core principles are alignment and transparency. Gunn Agri offers tailored solutions with access to direct deals, separately managed accounts and co-mingled fund vehicles in the farmland space.
Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets
MIRA Agriculture is Australia’s largest diversified farmland manager and actively manages 4.6 million hectares of farmland in Australia and Brazil with livestock, row cropping and permanent cropping assets. MIRA Agriculture incorporates UN Sustainable Development Goals as an overarching framework to achieve the greatest impact on the environment, people and to develop a meaningful pathway to reduct GHG emissions. MIRA Agriculture has more than $AUD2.2 billion in investor commitments, and continues to seek new global investment opportunities. The MIRA Agriculture team comprises experts with farm management and financial capabilities.
National FFA Organization
FFA is the next generation of leaders who will change the world. FFA is the top school-based youth leadership development organization in the country. We transform the lives of middle and high school students through a unique combination of classroom curriculum, experiential work-based learning and leadership/life skills. FFA provides young people with a community of support and opens up a world of opportunities.
Parabel
Parabel has made a breakthrough discovery in extracting plant protein from water lentils for use in foods. The crop has the highest yield per acre of all crops including GM soy. With a minimal environmental footprint, the crop doubles its biomass every day and is also harvested every day.
LENTEIN - the brand name of the water lentil protein - has the highest levels of Essential Amino Acids and BCAA of all plant protein and a protein digestibility (PDCAAS) score of .93
Water lentils are said to be the world’s most complete food source, are a staple food in South East Asia and a traditional food in Canada. LENTEIN recently also received the FDA GRAS no objections letter for the USA where it’s currently sold to the nutritional supplement sector.
LENTEIN has won numerous awards for its contribution to health and sustainability and featured in Euromonitor’s Top 10 Trends of 2019.
Valley Irrigation
Valley® Irrigation, proudly manufactures center pivot, corner and linear machines for the agriculture industry, and is notably irrigation's authority on advanced technology.
Since pioneering center pivot irrigation in 1954, we've helped growers in more than 90 countries conserve water while increasing crop quality and yields - connecting more machines worldwide to provide network autonomy. Our extensive line of innovative equipment, including remote control and irrigation monitoring products, efficiently delivers water, chemicals and fertilizer while reducing energy consumption and runoff.
Valley products are manufactured at six Valmont Irrigation facilities in the United States, Brazil, China, South Africa, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates. We support all of our equipment with a worldwide network of more than 450 dealers.
With more than 60 years of experience, Valley remains committed to providing innovative, precision irrigation solutions that meet the dynamic water and agricultural needs of growers around the world.
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AcreTrader
AcreTrader is an online marketplace for investors and land owners. It facilitates transactions both small and large, primarily through an online securitization platform that allows accredited investors and family offices to purchase shares of individual parcels.
AgVest Advisors LLC
AgVest Advisors LLC is a farmland acquisition, consulting and management company, specializing in working with institutions to create and implement US farmland direct investment strategies.
Founder and President, Chris Brawner, offers years of institutional investment experience throughout the US with some of the largest pension plans and financial institutions in the world. In his previous years working with his vast sourcing network across the US, he has been involved in over $600M of US farmland investments.
For more information please contact Chris Brawner at cbrawner@agvest.co or 618-520-7022.
Area One Farms
At Area One Farms, we do two things well; Farming and Finance. Our strength as a company is rooted in our deep understanding of the fundamentals of agriculture and the knowledge of equity, investments, and the ability to capitalize on valuable opportunities. We recognize the potential, we see the value, we understand how to get there and we know the risks.
Area One Farms bridges the gap between agriculture and equity – helping quality Canadian farmers expand their operations in a stable, committed partnership with investors. Within each equity partnership, we also help farm partners adopt farm management principles and practices that help raise the effectiveness and efficiency of farming operations, increasing their land productivity and overall profitability.
We currently have farm partnerships in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. As each farm is unique, we design partnerships as joint ventures to suit and support the financial and operational goals of each operation.
ECB Group
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 27 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 $1tn of cross-border deals – more than any other firm in the world.
In the United States, Freshfields provides integrated and proactive legal counsel to clients seeking local or international advice. The firm’s US practice is a key part of its international footprint; it has almost 200 lawyers based in the United States and more than 350 US-qualified lawyers working in its offices around the world. Cross borders with confidence. Cross borders with Freshfields.
Nasdaq, Inc.
Nasdaq, along with Veles Water and WestWater Research, recently launched the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index (NQH2O), the first of its kind water index that benchmarks the price of water in a way that enables the creation of tradable financial instruments. Utilizing data supplied by WestWater’s Waterlitix™ database, the index tracks the current spot rate price of water rights in California as determined by water entitlement transactions from California’s surface water market and selected adjudicated groundwater basins.
Nasdaq Global Indexes has been creating innovative, market-leading, transparent indexes for more than 40 years. There are 343 Exchange Trade Products (ETPs), listed in 19 countries on 23 exchanges, and representing $195 Billion in AUM tracking Nasdaq Indexes worldwide. Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a leading global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services. To learn more, visit business.nasdaq.com.
NCH Capital
NCH Capital, a $3 billion private equity firm based in New York, has been an active investor in Eastern Europe since 1993. Funds managed by NCH began investing in agribusiness in 2006, deploying approximately $1.5 billion into the agricultural sector, primarily in Russia and Ukraine, with smaller portfolios in Romania, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Bulgaria.
Today, two companies formed by NCH, Agro Terra in Russia and AgroProsperis in Ukraine, together represent one of the largest agribusiness platforms in the world with nearly 700,000 hectares of land, supplying over 4 million tons of grains, oilseeds, and sugar beets per annum to domestic and global markets through a combination of farming and third-party origination. The two companies are managed independently, each farming land using its own teams as well as operating various other businesses along the agricultural supply chain, creating competitive advantages vs. similar companies in other geographies. Both Agro Terra and AgroProsperis employ thousands of people and generate sustainable, vital growth and value for all stakeholders. These 21st century operations are restoring the Black Sea region to its historical position as a global agricultural superpower.
New Harvest Investment Management
New Harvest is an investment management firm that focuses solely on Australasian Agricultural assets.
According to Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison, ”the Australian Ag sector requires $110bn in investment over the next decade to meet the food demands of an Asian protein consumer base that is expected to grow by 500%.”
The mission of New Harvest Investment Management (NHIM), with its collection of investment specialists and experienced asset operators is to be the conduit between financial capital and productive agricultural assets.
The highly qualified, industry-leading team has a track record of building major portfolios and running large scale agricultural enterprises.
At NHIM we combine operator experience with investment analysis to build portfolios that have sector, geographic and product diversity. We see the ownership of water as a key driver to profitability and risk diversification.
NHIM has established the New Harvest Investment Fund 1 (NHIF#1) to service wholesale and professional investors seeking a scaled and investable portfolio of diversified Australian Agricultural assets.
The Manager co-invests alongside Investors and is genuinely aligned to the long-term performance of the fund.
Water Asset Management LLC
Founded in 2005, Water Asset Management (WAM) believes that scarce water is the essential resource defining this century. WAM invests globally in public water equities: long/short and long only, and includes investor owned water utilities, water infrastructure products and services and water resources. WAM also manages private equity investments in U.S. water resources. WAM’s PE fund’s (WPI and WPI II) asset managers are located in 5 western US states and identify, manage and market water rich agricultural assets. The strategy is is focused on developing water as a crop, generating a current yield from agriculture while water assets are developed, with an agriculture “put option” in the event a water resource underwriting objective is not achieved. The team includes water regulators, water utility operators, corporate farmers, water technology experts along with public and private equity portfolio managers. WAM believes that investing in companies and assets which ensure water quality and supply combines transparency, and free enterprise while serving the common good.
Preqin
As the world’s leading provider of data to the alternative assets industry, Preqin has the most comprehensive and extensive information available on the private equity & venture capital, hedge fund, real estate, infrastructure, private debt and natural resources industries. Since 2003, Preqin has been providing data and market insights to our clients, helping them to make better-informed business decisions and to perform with greater efficiency. Preqin’s services include award-winning online databases, as well as industry-leading research and analysis available via our premium publications and complimentary research reports. Our rigorous data collection methods, driven largely by direct contact with industry professionals, mean that we are uniquely placed to provide exclusive, up-to-minute insights, and make us the most trusted source of information in alternatives.
