Kicking off the morning of Beef Australia's International Day, Global Capital - Unlocking Opportunities in Australian Agriculture brought together experienced presenters that gave new insight into the agricultural investment landscape. Leading international speaker Detlef Schoen spoke about Australia's appeal to the increasing global pool of capital looking for a home in agriculture.
Investment manager Andrew Gatenby gave an honest account of how agriculture often suffers from perceptional unattractiveness, despite its ability to perform well against other asset classes. He drew parallels between investment in the mining boom and the new recognition of opportunities in agriculture - a compelling story despite the ongoing dragging of feet from the Australian superannuation industry. where he
Beef Central's Terry Sim's captured the debate sparked in question time about the concerns surrounding new tightening of regulatory oversight on foreign investment by FIRB in his article "
Foreign investment rules may stifle interest, Beef 2015 audience told"(
07 May 2015) in which he wrote that leading international agricultural investment managers are concerned Australia's new foreign investment rules might slow down project approvals.
Feedback from participants in the Wednesday morning event, as well as from Beef Australia's seminar committee has indicated the seminar was a great success and exceptionally timely as interest in investment grows. Over 1000 international delegates made the trip to be at Australia's premier tri-annual event, Beef Australia, many of them indicating they had keen interests in investing in Australian Agriculture.
Aux Venture was a proud sponsor of Beef Australia 2015 and looks forward to creating more opportunities for investors and businesses to learn more about unlocking their individual opportunities in Australian agriculture investment.
