Stafford Capital Partners has held a final closing on Stafford International Timberland VII, its fund of funds focused on existing timberland funds, with $484 million, exceeding its target of $400 million.
The new fund, SIT VII, has already made two secondary investments in addition to several other co-investments and primary commitments, according to a press release announcing the close. Stafford has committed almost 21 percent of the fund so far.
Investors in SIT VII are from the UK, Europe and Australia. The Essex Pension Fund in the UK committed £41 million ($63 million, €58 million) to the fund, according to board minutes from September 2013.
“To assist in the investment of this latest fund, we have increased our investment team with the addition of two investment managers and a further analyst to support the finance function, as well as plans to open an office in Latin American in the third quarter of this year,” Angus Whiteley, Stafford’s CEO, said in a press release.
Stafford, which provides investment management and advisory services in alternative assets, has $4.5 billion under management. It has investment teams specialised in agriculture, infrastructure, private equity, sustainable capital, timber and venture capital.
In June 2014, Stafford acquired the speciality infrastructure secondaries, sustainable capital and venture capital fund of funds management business from Macquarie Investment Services and Macquarie Investment Management, which at the time totalled about $700 million of assets transferred.
Stafford, which has offices in the US, the UK, Australia and Switzerland, wasn’t immediately available for comment.
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