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Macquarie Agribusiness

Overview
Why Agribusiness?
Why Macquarie?
Important updates

Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management is one of Australia's leading agribusiness providers.

Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management (MAFM) is part of Macquarie Group; a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services, operating retail agribusiness investments since 2003 and currently managing more than three million hectares of agricultural land.

MAFM provides your clients with unique opportunities for portfolio diversification in a potentially tax efficient manner, with the peace of mind, stability and expertise that comes with having their investments managed by one of Australia's leading agribusiness providers.

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Why Agribusiness?

The case for agriculture

As the world's population is growing, land is becoming scarce, urbanisation and the growing wealth of emerging markets is driving demand for land based resources.

Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management (MAFM) invests in real assets and their potential, seeking investment opportunities which leverage demand for basic resources the world cannot live without.

Key benefits of investing in Agribusiness

Portfolio diversification - agribusiness has historically exhibited low to negative correlation to traditional asset classes
Potential for long term returns - your clients can potentially receive annual harvest based income from the sale of almonds, income from the sale of plantation timber fibre and capital growth from their investment in rural land
Potential tax efficiency - agribusiness investments may be tax deductible
Investor flexibility - ability to invest jointly with a Self Managed Superannuation Fund (SMSF), a dependant, or another entity
Supporting rural Australia - help to create employment opportunities and support the local rural economy.

Why Macquarie?

Why invest with Macquarie?

When your clients invest with Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management (MAFM) they gain the peace of mind, stability and expertise that comes with having their investments managed by one of Australia's leading agribusiness providers.

Key benefits of having an investment managed by MAFM include:

Stability and experience - MAFM is part of Macquarie Group; a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services, operating retail agribusiness investments since 2003 and currently managing more than three million hectares of agricultural land (larger than the size of Belgium)
Sound investment philosophy - MAFM invests in an inescapable fact: people need to eat, and there is no alternative to food. This demand is exacerbated by the continued growth of agricultural commodities consumption globally
Unique investment approach - MAFM takes a unique approach to investing in food and agricultural production, bringing both investment management and farming expertise in-house and under one roof
Innovation - the Macquarie Forestry Investment was the first project in Australia to offer your clients the ability to invest in land as well as trees
Investment and asset manager you can trust - with more than 180 staff and over $A1 billion of funds under management or committed, MAFM combines significant global farming expertise with the diligence, commitment and rigour of a leading global financial institution
Risk management - MAFM employs a rigorous risk management framework overlayed with Macquarie Bank's experience and fiscal accountability in order to make farming a truly modern and investable proposition
Awards - awarded Real Assets Manager of the Year in 2009¹, MAFM has the capability, long term commitment, expertise and scale to deliver results while proactively managing your clients' investment risks.

¹ Foundation & Endowment Money Management USA.

Important updates

Macquarie Forestry Investment annual newsletter 2010

Flood and rainfall update - February 2011

Tropical Cyclone Anthony and Tropical Cyclone Yasi have caused intense rainfall across northern and eastern Victoria recently.

For information on the impacts of the recent rainfall on your clients' Macquarie Forestry or Almond Investment, click here.

Flood and rainfall update - January 2011

25 January 2011

Intense rainfall has caused widespread flooding across much of northern Victoria recently.

For information on the impacts of the recent rainfall on your clients' Macquarie Forestry or Almond Investment, click here.

Contact us

Call: 1800 617 900

Fax: 1800 673 484

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Past performance of any product described on this site is not a reliable indication of future performance.

Other than Macquarie Bank Limited ABN 46 008 583 542 (MBL), any Macquarie Group entity noted on this page is not an authorised deposit-taking institution for the purposes of the Banking Act 1959 (Commonwealth of Australia). That entity's obligations do not represent deposits or other liabilities of MBL. MBL does not guarantee or otherwise provide assurance in respect of the obligations of that entity, unless noted otherwise.

This information has been prepared by Macquarie Alternative Assets Management Limited ABN 30 103 237 181, AFSL 225758, (MAAML), in relation to the Macquarie Almond Investment 2011 ARSN 150 304 993 and the Macquarie Eucalypt Project 2011 ARSN 149 549 940 (Tree Project) and Macquarie Financial Products Management Limited ABN 38 095 135 694, AFSL 237847, (MFPML) in relation to the Macquarie Timber Land Trust 2011 ARSN 149 549 575 (Land Trust) and is current as at 5 May 2011.

An invitation to apply for interests in the Tree Project is made by MAAML and an invitation to apply for units in the Land Trust is made by MFPML (together the Macquarie Forestry Investment 2011) in a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) dated 21 March for the Macquarie Forestry Investment 2011 and an invitation to apply for interests in the Macquarie Almond Investment 2011 is made by MAAML in the Product Disclosure Statement dated 28 April 2011. The PDSs are available by phoning 1800 080 033. In deciding whether to acquire or continue to hold an investment in the Macquarie Forestry Investment 2011 or the Macquarie Almond Investment 2011, an investor should obtain the relevant PDS and consider its contents.

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