What characterises successful or unsuccessful equity partnerships

With the popularisation of equity partnerships during the last 15 years in the dairy industry, it was decided that a review of what characterises success and lack of success within equity partnerships would be useful. This would enable recommendations to be put to existing and prospective investors in equity partnerships. This is a small “snapshot” survey with no statistical backing, but is considered very useful and indicative of the industry. A survey of existing & past equity partnership investors was under taken. The survey was completed using dairy farming equity partnerships in the Southland/Otago area. The local knowledge, experience and contacts of the writer were used to select people that would extract the reasons for success or lack of success.