Asset Allocation | Commodities | Economics & Growth | Monetary Policy & Inflation
Ep. 129: Artem Milinchuk on Alternative Assets, Farmland and Inflation Hedges
- By Bilal Hafeez
- 1 min read
Artem has over 10 years of finance experience in food, agriculture, and farmland. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, and a BA and MA in Economics from the Higher School of Economics. Prior to founding FarmTogether, Artem was employee #1 and CFO/VP of Operations at Full Harvest Technologies, a now post-Series A B2B platform for buying and selling produce. He previously worked at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Sprott Resource Holdings, E&Y and PwC. In this podcast we discuss:
- Types of investable farmland
- The size of the farmland market
- Average returns over last 50 years
- Types of income earned on farmland
- How COVID-19 impacted farmland prices
- Whether farmland provides an inflation hedge
- Leverage levels in farmland
- Structural drivers of price moves
- How to invest
- Books mentioned: Principles (Dalio)
You can find more about FarmTogether here. You can follow Artem on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Read the full transcript here. Or read our recent Deep Dive on equities as an inflation hedge.
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