Lucentlands recently conducted a podcast with Werner Opperman, CEO of Agrarius, where they discussed investing in agriculture and how Agrarius works for people who need investments. Werner is an investment professional with a multi-hat intellectual approach, using paradigm-shifting thinking to evaluate, engineer, and optimize financial solutions. He has logged over 7000 hours of modeling experience, performed macro analysis for strategic and tactical forecasting, audited financial models as part of due diligence, and designed quantitative portfolio optimization models.

Werner's expertise is not limited to investment management, as he has extensive engagement across banking, insurance, capital markets, and compulsory/discretionary savings industries. He also has in-depth knowledge of alternative investments, actively engaging with thought leaders in this field and managing alternative investment portfolios in combination with traditional strategies to efficiently farm beta and hunt alpha.

Agrarius is a R10 billion Shari’ah compliant asset-backed Sukuk listed on the debt market of the JSE’s Sustainability Segment. Agrarius invests primarily in transactions in the social, green, and sustainable sectors, providing unique access to high-quality investment opportunities in the agriculture value chain. All transactions are based on Shari’ah law and are independently verified for sustainability against the requirements of the JSE’s sustainability segment.

Investing in Agrarius offers several advantages, including the opportunity to earn regular income and capital growth, trade in a regulated, transparent, and secure environment, invest in assets that are not easily accessible to investors, and invest for impact. The Agrarius Sukuk has an aggregate principle amount of ZAR500,000,000, with a senior secured status, floating rate, and sustainability-linked asset-backed notes. The proceeds from this Tranche of Notes will be used to undertake investments in terms of the Master Investment Agreement, within five business days of receipt by the Company of proceeds for the relevant Tranche of Notes by paying the amount of the Investment into a South African bank account nominated by Agrarius OpCo for purposes of concluding the Underlying Transactions. The proceeds raised from the issue of the Sukuk Notes will be further applied in accordance with the Sustainability-linked Sukuk Framework 1, as signed off by the Independent Sustainability Advisor.

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For more info on Agrarius:
Website: https://www.27four.com/investorcentre/
Werner Opperman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oppermanwerner/

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