Overview
1. Invest as little as S$15,000 / US$10,000
2. 10% nett guaranteed yield for 10 years – client can exit at any time
3. Yield is paid on a 6 monthly basis. There is however a two month grace period from when you first purchase your land. Your first yield of 5% is therefore paid eight months after purchase. Subsequent yields of 5% are paid every six months.
4. Premium agricultural land prices are appreciating by approximately 30% per annum
Safety
1. Movewithus South America SA, with its office in Argentina, will source the land and obtain an independent valuation.
2. Movewithus has arranged with a major Argentinean farm operator, South American Asset Management (SAAM) to rent the land. The rent will be 10% of your investment, plus all fees including your Company management fees – and it will be paid in twice yearly installments that will be passed straight on to you. The contract with SAAM includes a requirement for it to place six months rent in a HSBC Powerscourt client account.
When you invest in GrowGold, you are putting your money in the future price of Argentinean land and the crops that it will produce. Crop prices and land prices are, of course, closely linked: the value of the land depends on the value of what is grown on it. So the question is whether this is a sound investment. As sponsors of GrowGold, both movewithus and Powerscourt strongly believe that it is. And happily their views coincide with those of numerous other experts. The following are extracts from the writings of experts, some of which allude to reports from major international organizations. Each extract has a brief introduction, and a link to the full article; the titles are those of the articles themselves.
The world is hungry
Crop prices are booming, which is pushing up land prices.
‘Prices of global wheat futures hit records during the first week of September, about double what they were a year ago.’
The Economist, 06/09/07. Economist.com
Life on the land
Land prices are shooting up.
‘Agricultural land prices have risen by 50% since 2005, thanks to confidence in agriculture’s future.’
The Economist, 09/08/07. Economist.com
Global warming’s next victim: wheat.
Wheat prices are soaring, partly owning to climate change.
‘We’re used to watching the price of oil mock gravity, but there’s an even more essential commodity that’s also becoming scarcer and pricier: traders are
Biofuelled
The International Grains Council predicts that demand for arable crops will persistently outstrip supply, pushing up prices.
In the coming year, the International Grains Council, an industry group, estimates that global production of grains will reach a record of 1,660m tonnes, well above last year’s figure of 1,569m. But demand for grain is growing even faster. The council reckons it will reach 1,680m tonnes this year. In three of the past four years, demand has exceeded supply. The culprits [are] the growing use of grains to make biofuels, such as ethanol … and demand for animal feed, which has grown steadily, as more people in booming countries such as China grow rich enough to afford meat.
The Economist, 21/06/07. Economist.com
Arable land – a superb investment.
There is rare agreement amongst investment experts that arable land is a superb investment – for a simple reason. As people in China and elsewhere grow richer, their demand for meat shoots up – and 1 kilo of meat requires around 8 kilos of grain fed to the animal. And as crop demand and prices rise, so does the value of the land on which the crops are grown.