MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ASSETS BY AGRION

Agrion is the leading professional agricultural land management company. In less than 7 years, the company has managed to establish itself as a market leader and is trusted by customers and partners. "Agrion offers a full range of services for landowners and farmers - land purchase and sale, land swaps, land rental and lease, lending, land leasing, etc. Additional options for active asset management are also available - renting, leasing, exchanging, buying farms and even whole businesses. The company was the first to introduce European standards for land property management.

The Growth of Finance

The US financial services industry grew from 4.9 percent of GDP in 1980 to 7.9 percent of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly equity. Another important factor was growth in fees associated with an expansion in household credit, particularly fees associated with residential mortgages. This expansion was fueled by the development of nonbank credit intermediation (or “shadow banking”). We offer a preliminary assessment of whether the growth of active asset management, household credit, and shadow banking—the main areas of growth in the financial sector—has been socially beneficial.