Agcapita Farmland Fund IV Completes Capital Raising

Calgary, Canada, April 30, 2014 --(PR.com)-- The close of Fund IV follows on the heels of the completion of Agcapita Fund I’s exit, which generated impressive returns. Agcapita co-founder Stephen Johnston stated “My partners and I are extremely pleased with the returns generated by the sale of the Fund I portfolio and believe they represent a validation of the Agcapita investment premise. We are particularly pleased that we generated these returns with minimal use of leverage in keeping with our overall philosophy to actively reduce risk and return volatility for our investors. Similar to Agcapita Fund I, Agcapita Funds II and III also have constructed diversified portfolios of Saskatchewan farmland. Our investment model leads us to conclude that Saskatchewan farmland continues to trade at a fundamental discount to other Canadian and global jurisdictions raising the prospect of further superior absolute and risk adjusted returns in this asset class.”

Agcapita Fund V is pending and is expected to launch in early Q3 2014. If you would like to receive information about Agcapita Fund V when it launches please feel free to contact us at Fund5@agcapita.com or register online at the Agcapita website.

Agcapita is one of Canada's most experienced farmland fund managers, launching its first fund in Q1 2008. Agcapita believes that farmland funds continue to show great appeal to conservative investors concerned with inflation and the volatility of their existing public equity investments. Canadian farmland has similar inflation hedging qualities to gold but with an ongoing cash yield that gold lacks. Canadian farmland returns have exhibited low volatility and this combined with higher absolute returns equate to a favorable Sharpe ratio. Agcapita believes farmland is a safe investment, that supply is shrinking and that unprecedented demand for "food, feed and fuel" will continue to move crop prices higher over the long-term.

Agcapita’s funds directly hold diversified portfolios of farmland in western Canada, and in particular in the highly price competitive province of Saskatchewan. Agcapita’s funds give investors the benefit of a direct investment in farmland combined with a model of front-end loaded cash rents with minimal use of leverage.

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