Carter Malloy is the founder and CEO of AcreTrader, a proprietary online investment platform that enables investors to purchase shares of farmland online while managing all aspects of farm management, reporting, and administration. Over the past 12 months, AcreTrader has doubled its employee count, more than tripled its investor pool, and increased the total funds raised on the platform by almost 12 times.

Carter grew up in a farming family and has a lifelong passion for investing and agriculture. Before AcreTrader, he spent five years as a partner at a $1 billion equity investment firm.

[02:29] Getting to Know Carter Malloy

[04:08] The Future of Farmlands in the U.S.

[06:28] Portfolio Diversification Through Farmlands

[09:00] The Advantages of Investing in Farmland

[11:31] How the AcreTrader Platform Links Farmers to Investors

[13:55] Who is an Accredited Investor?

[15:49] How Carter and his Company Source Farmland Investments

[17:44] Characteristics of an Exceptional Piece of Farmland

[20:32] Leasing Farmland in the U.S.

[22:18] Typical Returns on Farmland Investing

[25:10] How the Pandemic Positively Affected the Agriculture Space

Future of Farmlands and AgriTech in the U.S.

Increased market volatility and the unexpected Covid-19 pandemic have forced investors to look for alternative investment opportunities that can be resilient throughout an economic cycle. With the number of unexpected market events seemingly on the rise, farmlands are gaining more mainstream acceptance by guaranteeing attractive long-term annualized returns. Interestingly, farmland returns have historically been highly resilient throughout challenging economic periods.

Advantages of Investing in Farmland

With growing urbanization, there are fewer and fewer acres available in the U.S. for farmland. However, the global population is growing, which comes back to our earlier point on supply and demand. There’s less land but more demand for the food from that land. No investment is without risk, though. The good news is that farmland is mostly not correlated with the stock market and only ever benefits from inflation.

During asset allocation, investors are always on the hunt for opportunities that have a low correlation. From an investment standpoint, correlation refers to how often the returns on two investments can be affected by the same market movements, either up or down. Farmland typically exhibits no correlation with the more famous asset classes such as stock and bond markets.

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