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Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey 2012

July 2008

Agricultural funds on the rise

Barings, Castlepoint, AIG, Eclectica, to name but a few, have all set up agriculture funds in the past 12 months to cash in on expected commodity price increases. And if returns to date are anything to go by, more will be joining them.


The CF Eclectica Agricultural Fund is up more than 35% since inception in June 2007, for example. Compare that with the MSCI World returns of less than 1%.

Jonathan Blake, who will be the manager of the Baring Global Agriculture Fund, says it is a case of pure fundamentals. "With the world’s population growing at around 80 million per year and meat consumption rising sharply as a consequence of...


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