

Services
AEA offers customized farmland investment strategies for direct farmland ownership to a variety of clients.
Family Offices &
High-Net-Worth Clients


Insurance
Companies

Funds

Endowments




Portfolio customization
AEA collaborates with each client to design an investment strategy that will build a farmland portfolio to meet the client’s objectives. Each farmland portfolio is owned directly by the investor under a separate account structure.
Client objectives in focus:
a
Target Investment Amount
b
Investment Time Horizon
- Long-term: focused on wealth creation and transfer
- Medium-term: combining income and capital appreciation
- Short-term: “fix and flip” strategies benefiting from below market acquisitions
c
Crop or Regional Preferences
- Conventional row crops
- Organic and specialty crops, including organic conversion
- Permanent crops
- Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Delta, and Great Lake States
d
Asset Operating Model Based on Target Return and Risk Tolerance
Lowest Risk
- Cash rent lease
- Flex lease
- Crop share
- Custom farming
- Direct operations
Highest Return Potential
e
Relative Importance of Current Yield and Capital Appreciation in Total Return
AEA offers a unique Direct Operations Asset Management structure in addition to traditional lease strategies. In the Direct Operations structure, the Investor has full financial interest and control in the farming operations and crop production. Execution of crop production operations is facilitated through Peoples Company's Direct Operations Platform.