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New Forests makes first investment in South Africa

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... This week, New Forests has made its first investment in South Africa and its second investment for AFIP by acquiring Rance Timber (Rance). This decision marks an important expansion for New Forests' AFIP into a country with an established forestry industry ...

Retail agriculture fund to wind up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... brought about by significant losses in cattle operations in northern Australia and a softening in some segments of the local timber market. This heavily impacted the performance of the Agri Access Fund. At June end, the AAM Agri Access Fund had just ...

Top Australian CIOs revealed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
Who have been named in the 2025 top 100 global list of chief investment officers? Five Australian super fund chief investment officers made the grade. Chief Investment Officer, the New York-based sister publication of Financial Standard, this month ...

First Super deputy CEO jumps ship

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... successor. After four years with the industry fund that serves people in the furniture and joinery, pulp and paper and timber industries, Michelle Boucher has taken a role at REI Super. REI Super chief executive Jarrod Coysh confirmed Boucher has been ...

New Forests enters Vietnamese timber industry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... invested in Tavico Group. It is the fourth investment made by the fund, which also recently acquired a stake in Laos-based timber plantation company Burapha Agro-Forestry. Tavico was founded in 2005 as a log trader and sawn timber mill. Today it also ...

Countdown to RIAA conference is on

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025  |  NEWS
The largest gathering of sustainable investment professionals in the Southern Hemisphere is scheduled for next month - and the event organiser, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), has pulled industry heavyweights to the stage. ...

Green moves: Re-Vi, Aware Super, Insignia Financial

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... in terms of biochar production and carbon removals. Re-Vi said the project will see over 15,000 hectares of fire-damaged timber plantations turned into biochar, a form of charcoal that is highly stable and carbon-rich, with numerous agricultural and ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... deforestation-prone countries, with land-use change being the prominent driver of nature loss. Industries like cattle, palm oil, soy, timber, cocoa, coffee, and rubber are the biggest drivers of deforestation, resulting in soil fertility decline, water ...

BNPP AM launches Future Forest Fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched a fund to meet global demand for sustainably managed timberland investments. The fund is classified Article 9 under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and will invest in sustainable ...

Mega asset manager defends OECD complaint

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... in each of the 20 companies." Of the asset manager's holdings in 20 companies in the palm oil, pulp/paper, soy, cattle, timber, and biomass, FOE found documented evidence of ecological harm and human rights abuses between January 2019 and June 2024. ...