Natural Capital

Anne Dillé joins from Nomura Asset Management following the firm’s launch of an open-end forestry vehicle in March.

Investors are rediscovering the real reason to act – profit. From food to water, resource-driven arbitrage is emerging and capital is taking its position, says Gresham House natural capital director Eoin McDonald.

The local pension authority has rethought the management of its 21,000-acre farmland portfolio and has backed Campbell Global and Gresham House strategies to get closer to carbon offsets.

The local pension authority is an outlier and an innovator – director George Graham discusses its new 3.5% natural capital allocation and the asset class’s place in its 2030 net-zero target.

New Forests plans to create economies of scale with the Burapha Agro-Forestry investment, building upon a previous TAFF2 acquisition in Laos.

Japan’s climate policies are driving corporate appetite for forestry-based carbon credits, says EFM managing director Amrita Vatsal.

The firm will pursue a pure play timberland strategy as it begins the buildout of its natural capital business.

The firm intends to restore 40,000ha of degraded land across the assets located in Argentina, Costa Rica and Madagascar.

New Agriculture, a division of New Forests, will target an IRR of 9-12% in the 12-year closed-end fund.

One of the first regulated biodiversity markets is up and running. Here’s how it works for fund managers, investors and landowners who want an additional source of income.