Overseas Agricultural Investing Mastery with Karen Williams
Today, our guest is Karen Williams from the Global Investor Alliance. She started her career as a commercial lender, before shifting to consulting with PWC. She learned to study businesses and markets, synthesize data to pivot quickly when needed, apply processes to elevate performance, and leverage relationships to influence positive outcomes. She has been dabbling with real estate all her life but started investing full-time the past 6-7 years.
Join us, as we talk about investing in agricultural assets overseas and discuss Karen’s important insights into overseas agricultural investing.
[00:01 – 05:59] Opening Segment
- I talk briefly about great values that await you in this episode
- I welcome our guest, Karen Williams
- Karen talks about her background
- The mission of their company
[06:00 – 18:34] Overseas Agricultural Investing Mastery
- Karen talks about their target assets and emerging markets overseas
- The importance of market research on agricultural products
- Structuring their business to accommodate accredited investors
- Karen talks about how they manage their agricultural properties
- The parallels of managing multifamily assets and overseas agricultural assets
[18:35 – 25:21] Exit strategies for overseas properties
- Karen talks about some exit strategies for overseas properties
- Long term investing in agricultural properties
- Ideal markets to invest short term
- Opportunities in private businesses
[25:22 – 34:10] Closing Segment
- Quick break for our sponsors
- What is the best investment you've ever made other than your education?
- Relationships with people
- Mentors and Masterminds
- What is the worst investment you ever made?
- My very first overseas investment
- What is the most important lesson that you've learned in business and investing?
- Never forfeit your integrity
- Connect with Karen. See the links below.
Tweetable Quotes:
"Relationships have rectified most things that have gone wrong.” - Karen Williams
“It’s rare these days that you find true integrity in your partners, and that is the most important thing in my perspective.” - Karen Williams
Resources Mentioned:
Connect with Karen, visit https://www.globalinvestoralliance.com/
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