Investors worried by climate change and rising inflation are being offered a chance to combat both with the launch of a forestry investment trust from infrastructure and real estate specialist Foresight Group. The Foresight Sustainable Forestry Company believes it can remove four million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere, while generating inflation-beating returns not linked […]
Denmark’s Sampension is investing DKK1bn (€134m) in forestry assets in the south-eastern US, via timberland manager Resource Management Service (RMS), adding to its already large exposure to this asset type. The labour-market pension fund said that before this commitment, it already had DKK4.2bn of forestry assets – over 177,500 hectares of land, saying it had a […]
Foresight Group is planning to raise £200m (€235m) on the London Stock Exchange for a new company that will invest in UK forestry assets. The infrastructure and private equity manager is proposing an initial public offering and plans to sell up to 200m new shares in Foresight Sustainable Forestry Company, a newly created investment trust […]
APG wants to grow its investments in forestry and agricultural land from a current €1.8bn to between €3bn and €5bn in the next few years. To be able to find sufficient investments to meet this goal, the €573bn pension asset manager has doubled the size of its investment team for the asset class, according to […]
For many property and land investors investing in commercial woodlands and forests is becoming more popular by the day. The concept around forestry investment is not new but attracts significant investor interest because it is considered to be one of the most tax efficient ways to invest in land in the United Kingdom. The UK […]
On an alarming note, forest degradation continues even though the global rate of deforestation have halved over the last two decades—from a net annual forest area loss of 7.3 million hectares in 2000 to 3.3 million hectares in 2015. This was one of the key messages delivered at the international conference on halting deforestation and […]