The Who Behind Southern Pastures
Seeking to balance that original farming cluster with a barbell strategy to help stave off the ups and downs, Southern Pastures purchased a further nine farmers in central Canterbury in the South Island. Armed with some capital and an ideology that nurturing the land for generations to come should be paramount and unwavering whilst still balancing the return on investment, Southern Pastures set about honing it’s strategy to become an ethical provider of premium dairy.
Talking the talk is easy, but walking the talk is what makes Southern Pastures shine. It’s two-fold and both lead back to the where the investment money and the Southern Pastures team initiates from.
The Fund
Southern Pastures is funded by New Zealanders, and European Pension Funds who have a set of ideals instructed and swayed by those hard-working citizens who entrust their savings. That’s people like you and me using our savings to invest in something tangible and based on values. New Zealand, Sweden and Germany are all within the top ten trusted countries in the world so it’s not surprising that the AP1, an arm of the Swedish Government has found an alignment with the Southern Pastures’ philosophies. As a country, New Zealand is also first in the business index for transparency and has a stable, centrist, democratic Governments … who back in 1893 were the first self-governing country in the world to give women the right to vote! It look like we’re still pushing the boundaries …
Leadership
Our management team has some fine attributes when it comes to values and backgrounds. A mix of cultures and hands on local and global experience in technical farming, farm ownership, agricultural research, funds management and investment banking, sports leadership and management, and niche business industry provides intellectual rigour and fortitude to decision making.
