“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore” with Carter Malloy, Founder and CEO of AcreTrader

The Hoosier Hub Podcast

Recorded on February 21, 2024

Carter Malloy joins the podcast to discuss an important asset class in Indiana, farmland! Carter has created two businesses that support farmland investing. Acretrader.com allows investors easier access to farmland spread across the country. Acres.com seeks to become “Zillow for farmland”. In this episode, we talk about the nature of farmland as an investment including its sensitivity to interest rates.

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Acretrader: https://acretrader.com/

Acres: https://www.acres.com/

Guest Bio:Carter Malloy, Founder and CEO of AcreTrader, grew up in an Arkansas farming family and has maintained a lifelong passion for agriculture and investing. At AcreTrader, Carter has led the company to exponential growth across the company’s two business divisions, which include AcreTrader and Acres, the land research platform. Before founding AcreTrader in 2018, he spent five years as part of the founding team of a successful global equity investment firm. Prior to his time at the firm, Carter was a Managing Director with Stephens Inc., a large private investment bank, where he was an equity research analyst focused on the Data & Analytics and Property Technology sectors. Prior to Stephens, he owned businesses focused on internet marketing and sustainable fuel technologies. Malloy graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in Physics and is a member of the Agribusiness Industry Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and a Northwest Arkansas Council Executive Board Member.

Who are the hosts?

Austin Crites, CFA: Austin is a past-president and current committee member of CFA Society Indianapolis. Professionally, he is the Chief Investment Officer at Aurora Financial Strategies where he manages US-focused, all-cap, style-agnostic equity strategies as the core of client portfolios. Austin is a 2008 graduate of Marian University in Indianapolis where he is now an adjunct professor in the Byrum School of Business.

Matt Henry, CFA: Matt is a Senior Investment Officer at STAR Wealth Management. He is also a Past President and a director of CFA Society Indianapolis. When he’s not managing porfolios, Matt teaches Finance 300 at Ball State University. He enjoys air conditioning, wi-fi, and the conveniences of indoor living.