A New Agricultural Fund
These include natural resources such as water supply, and the area of raw materials, which includes such items as seed and fertilizer production, crops, livestock, forestry and agricultural culture. Other areas of investment in product processing and distribution are represented by companies such as the food and beverage industry, but also from the area of renewable energy sources.
Focus on areas of fertilizer, seed and crop protection
In the so-called upstream segment hold fund manager Bryan Agbabian and his team together companies that should benefit directly from increasing production of agricultural commodities. The area is currently weighted at 60 percent. According to the fund management companies have particularly in the fields of fertilizers, seeds, pesticides, farm equipment and irrigation systems in the coming months, above-average growth potential.
In the downstream segment, there are company back from the fields of product processing and distribution. Here expect the fund manager gains by increasing demand for agricultural products, developing, for example, due to changes in dietary habits. At this point, here about 40 percent of fund assets are invested.
The Allianz RCM Global Agricultural Trends on 1 April 2008 launched. The initial fee now stands at five percent and the management fee is 1.75 percent per year, they say. In addition to a € share class also accumulating U.S. dollar share class for retail investors was launched.