BPL Pensioen is to invest an additional €90 million in the ASR Dutch Farmland Fund. This amount is on top of the €210 million previously invested by the pension fund for the agricultural and green sector. BPL Pensioen is an investor in a.s.r. real estate’s farmland fund alongside DELA, the ING pension fund and a.s.r.
Mark Rosenberg, Chairman of BPL Pensioen’s investment committee, said: “Our investments in agricultural land help diversify our portfolio and deliver an attractive real return for our participants.”
The ASR Dutch Farmland Fund owns almost 39,000 hectares of Dutch agricultural land worth €2.1 billion. More than €550 million has been invested since the fund opened to new external institutional investors in 2022.
Source: press release sent 6 January 2025