International Listed Funds with Large Farm Land Holdings in South America
International Listed Funds with Large Farm Land Holdings in South America Some of the global listed companies with large land holdings and featured in many of the agricultural funds include. In addition to these there is a number of private companies with up to 1,000,000 hectares involved in Agriculture. ie El Tejar in Argentina and Brazil. Cresud (CRESY) is an Argentinean agricultural company that invests in land, cattle and technology. Cresud generates profits through the acquisition, transformation…
Where are Chinese retail Investors putting their money ?
WHERE CHINESE ARE HEADING This year, South Korea, Thailand and Japan are the top 3 countries for China’s rising middle-class travelling overseas. South Korea received a boost from its popular soap operas – which China’s first lady, Peng Liyuan is even a fan of. Japan’s weakened yen makes for affordable travel, and Thailand became more attractive to Chinese travellers due to its loosened visa requirements. For China’s affluent, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Dubai are considered…
Opinion: Latin America – the ‘Valley Girl’ of global markets
Opinion: Latin America – the ‘Valley Girl’ of global markets (This article was written by John Price, the managing director of Americas Market Intelligence) If the Latin American market could be symbolized by one single character, the California Valley Girl might fit the bill. It’s a simplistic, even insulting stereotype, but one that stands up to statistical scrutiny, specifically an analysis of Latin America’s share of the globe in different product usage, asset classes, and investment flows. After…
Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru: Better Together
The following is a communiqué issued on September 21 by the Presidents of Chile, Michelle Bachelet; Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto & Peru, Ollanta Humala . The Pacific Alliance is achieving significant results. Three years ago, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru decided to move toward deeper economic and commercial integration. The effort was based on our common belief that the free movement of people, goods, services and capital can help us achieve greater welfare and social inclusion…
Uruguay’s Economy continues to grow
Uruguay’s economy has expanded 3.7% during the second quarter of 2014 making for 10 years of continuos expansion. With the exception of construction, which had a negative performance, all other sectors of the Uruguayan economy expanded during the second quarter compared to 2013. Exports during the period, increased 8.1% in volume on an annual basis while imports increased at a 2.4% rate. Last year the Uruguayan economy expanded 4.4% above the government target and other estimates such as the IMF and World…
How many hours do South American workers need to work to pay their taxes
According to the World Bank workers in Uruguay spend half their working day to support the government. However on the other side they only spend 113 working days per year making them some of the least productive in the region. This compares poorly with Chile at 146 working days and Argentina 203 days. Source Banco Mundial, El Pais, Infonegocia, La Nacion (Visited 141 times, 1 visits today) About Gateway to South AmericaGateway to South America is an independent Brokerage and Advisory company committed to helping…
For decades Switzerland has had bank secrecy. Now it does not. Ouch for the rich and corrupt politicians
What is the affect of those with bank accounts in Switzerland. When Switzerland’s made a decision to accept exchanging banking information, tax and other corporate information with countries with which it has signed agreements to avoid double taxation (including Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay), the financial industry found it must adapt quickly to this new situation or decline. Switzerland has made it clear that it would no longer help its business clients and foreign politicians protect assets not declared…
Why there will be water wars sooner than you think
Water has become a real issue as the people around the world are finding out more and more. New techniques for desalinating ocean waters might be an answer and this might solve the problem of rising ocean levels! Here is a great article from Simon Black who reports on some astounding data from around the world. Shanghai, China A few days ago I had a conversation with the Chief Operating Officer for our agricultural fund in Chile. We were discussing water, and he told me that roughly 60% of California…
Union Agriculture Group (UGA)
The Uruguayan Union Agriculture Group (UGA) may have got its timing wrong in buying El Tejars farm assets in Uruguay it seems in hindsight. The seller was El Tejar who was one of the largest rural players in South America and took the opportunity to sell all its Uruguay farms ( 67,000 ha ) as it thought the market had peaked to its larger competitor UGA. UGA can now boost around 172,000 ha in total. However the idea of then UGA creating an initial public offering (IPO ) with the combined acreage has become…
Startups businesses surge in South America
(This article was written by Mark Lennon and Christine Magee and was published on July 1, 2014 on CrunchBase, for which they work as analysts.) Winter is coming in South America, but for investors and entrepreneurs things are starting to heat up across the continent. New tech communities are sprouting up in South America to serve the 200M+ population that is increasingly reliant on internet and mobile technology. In June the accelerator program Start-Up Chile announced Generation Ten, its latest batch of…
Why and How to invest in South American Agriculture ?
Many of the topics that were considered fringe in the past but are now coming to reality with the effects of global warming; the morality of food miles when countries use diminishing resources to ship food a long way to any market, geopolitical power shifts, the potential break up and loss of power in the United States, along with the growing power of Asia, Brazil, and the Pacific rim countries, like Australia and Chile, are all topics of hot discussion. GTSA obviously has its own agenda in all this as we see…
What happens to the Soya that South America exports ?
Soya is one of the most rapidly spreading crops in the world, particularly in South America export. The demand continues to rise due to the increased consumption of meat and dairy products and the biofuels boom. It is the crop that provides the largest amount of protein per hectare, and it is used to make fodder for animals, prepared foods, vegetable oil, industrial inputs and recently, biofuel. The principal producing countries are Brazil, the United States and Argentina . These countries lead in exports,…
China needs more of the worlds food, making investing in the Agriculture sector a sure bet
By Ding Xuedong To the people, food is the most important issue under the sky.” So says an old Chinese proverb; but if that is so, the clouds may be darkening. As the world’s population grows – and as its people grow more prosperous and more carnivorous – it will only become more difficult to provide a plentiful supply of food at affordable prices. I n many countries, food security is already an urgent challenge, as the world food price crisis of 2007-08 showed. According to research by the UN Food…
