Since 2004, Kilter Rural has been investing in and managing Australian water, farmland and ecosystem assets on behalf of institutional and wholesale investors. Today, Kilter is one of Australia’s most experienced water investment managers, with more than two decades of experience operating in Australian water markets and managing natural capital assets.
Our purpose is to generate attractive long-term returns through the active management of scarce and strategic real assets, while supporting the resilience and productivity of Australia’s agricultural landscapes.
What we do
Kilter provides investors with access to specialised investment opportunities across:
Water
We manage diversified portfolios of water entitlements and develop proprietary water products that help Australian irrigators manage production risk while generating returns for investors. Water is a scarce and increasingly valuable resource that offers diversification benefits and low correlation to traditional asset classes.
Natural Capital
Our investment approach recognises that healthy ecosystems underpin long-term asset value. We incorporate environmental stewardship and landscape resilience into the management of our investments, supporting sustainable agricultural production and ecosystem outcomes.
Farmland
Kilter has a long history of improving the productivity, efficiency and resilience of irrigated farming landscapes through active management, technology adoption and long-term stewardship.
Our values
Productivity
- We seek commercial excellence in everything we do while being committed to leveraging diversity and change.
- We apply best available science and technology to investments to leverage off global population, food, asset scarcity and climate change trends.
Longevity
- Servicing our fiduciary duty to investors is paramount.
- We deliver sound returns in the short term but plan for returns over generations.
- Sound investment is sustainable and long term – climate resilience is a key design feature.
- We have an expandable model but will not expand at any cost.
Relationships
- Long term, sustainable relationships are fundamental to our business.
- We bridge the country-city divide. We build face-to-face relationships in rural communities as we do with city institutional investors.
- We do what we say but where we cannot control an outcome, we make this clear from the start.
AFS Licence
Kilter Investments Pty Ltd has an Australian Financial Services Licence for Wholesale Managed Investments (AFSL No. 414142), which was granted in March 2012. The licence permits dealing in derivatives associated with water and water products.
Quality Management System
Kilter Pty Ltd operates a Quality Management System that complies with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015. Original certification took place in 2010 with a successful recertification audit confirmed in 2025
About Kilter Rural
Kilter Rural was founded in 2004 to deliver profit with impact, by investing at scale in Australian farmland, water and ecosystem assets. 61% owned by Regal Partners, the firm seeks to provide resilient returns that are uncorrelated to traditional asset classes, while delivering positive environmental and social impacts.
Awarded the 2019 ‘Impact Asset Manager of the Year’, Kilter Rural provides institutional and wholesale investors with access to two dedicated water funds that manage a portfolio of water entitlements in the southern Murray-Darling Basin.