... to provide a broad context for evaluation of farmland investments in a portfolio context. Issues related to the development of a farmland fund and index construction are discussed along with major risk and transactional factors that are somewhat unique to the asset class. Design/methodology/approach...

... in the Pork Industry: A Portfolio Theory Approach Brian Buhr Abstract Markowitz s mean-variance approach is used to identify the returns to vertical investment in the pork industry. In addition to previous efforts, this paper considers not only returns to stock ownership, but uses operating return...