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New Forests appoints first global head of funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
New Forests has named Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) veteran Michelle Elliot as its global head of funds. In the newly created role, Elliot will be responsible for improving investment, operations, and investment analytics to support the investment ...

New Forests invests in Thai peat forest

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
New Forests has invested in a 70,000-hectare block of peat swamp forest in Thailand as the first investment in its Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2). New Forest's investment in the Kuan Kreng Landscape (KKL) in Thailand holds the country's ...

Nature-related disclosures underway

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Australian financial institutions on the list are asset manager Ethical Partners Funds Management, natural capital investor New Forests, and investment firm Metrics Credit Partners. Australian companies are Brambles, Forico, Telstra, the Port of Newcastle ...

Forestry fund falls short of target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... activities focused on climate action, community engagement and livelihoods. Geoffrey Seeto, head of emerging markets at New Forests said, "While the fund is now closed to new investors, we are currently speaking with existing LPs in addition to prospective ...

Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... is targeting one million tonnes of carbon abatement over the next decade by harnessing Australia's natural capital. New Forests, manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, completed the first close of the Australia New Zealand ...

Two Aussie states ramp up climate ambitions to attract investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... bipartisan position on these targets." Meanwhile Western Australia will end commercial logging in its old growth and native forests from the beginning of next year and convert over 400,000 hectares to nature reserves, national parks, and conservation ...

Finance realignment urged as nature-positive trails 30:1

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... commented: "COP28's Nature, Land Use and Ocean Day saw over $186 million of new financing for nature and climate towards forests, mangroves and the ocean. This funding builds on the $2.5 billion that was mobilised on 2 December to protect and restore ...

COP28: Australia commits $150m to Pacific resilience

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... resilient buildings by 2030. Brazil, who will host COP30 in 2025, announced the creation of a US$250 billion Tropical Forests Forever Fund, a global funding mechanism to protect forests in up to 80 countries. The instrument will be fully operational ...

New Forests to sell NZ assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Global nature-based real assets manager New Forests is selling four of its New Zealand forestry assets. The four estates, located across New Zealand's North and South Islands, are being sold as the fund manager completes the term of the second round ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
UniSuper and a consortium of European pension funds have acquired a Tasmanian forestry estate from a New Forests managed fund. UniSuper, the UK's Pension Protection Fund (PPF), and APG Asset Management N.V (APG) on behalf of its Dutch pension fund client ...
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