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26 March 2025
New Forests partners with Oji Holdings to establi...
SYDNEY: 26 March 2025 – New Forests has entered into a partnership with Oji Holdings to establis...
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26 March 2025
New Forests takes out six awards at Agri Investor...
Personality of the Year – David Brand (Executive Chair) Farmland Deal of the Year (Global...
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15 January 2025
New Forests announces final close of Australia Ne...
LONDON/SYDNEY, 15 January 2025 - New Forests, a global investment manager of nature-based real asset...
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19 December 2024
End of Year Message from New Forests’ CEO M...
Interest rates and, correspondingly, exchange rates have seen significant movements influencing fina...
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28 November 2024
Permanent protection of the biodiversity, habitat...
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15 November 2024
New Forests makes investment in the US South thro...
LONDON – 14 November 2024 - New Forests, the global investment manager of nature-based real assets...
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22 October 2024
Sustainability & Impact Report 2024
Introducing our Sustainability and Impact Report 2024
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11 September 2024
Net Zero and Nature Positive are the rallying cri...
SYDNEY: 11 September 2024 - In a paper published today, Investing in a Nature Positive Future (‘...
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11 September 2024
Investing in a Nature Positive Future
Nature is the collective characteristics of the physical world, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth.
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10 September 2024
New Forests returns ancestral land to Hoopa Valle...
In late 2023, New Forests settled the sale to the Hoopa Valley Tribe that represented the permanent return of this important and historic 10,300 acres of unceded ancestral lands.
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8 August 2024
Why Materiality Matters
The concept of materiality sits at the heart of best practice identification, management and reporti...
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5 August 2024
Trinity Headwaters Forest to be protected forever
The Trinity Headwaters Forest is an almost 11,000-acre property situated in northern California, and forms part of New Forests’ 265,000-acre Klamath Forest estate portfolio.
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17 July 2024
Wood for good – the ultimate renewable
Sarah Clawson, our global head of investor relations visits Mt Gambier in South Australia,...
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7 May 2024
New Forests appoints Managing Director, Africa
New Forests announces Yida Kemoli as Managing Director, Africa
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18 April 2024
New Forests wins two Agri Investor awards
New Forests has taken out top honours in two categories of the Agri Investor Awards for 2023.
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5 April 2024
Harmonising Profits and Planet
The Transformative Power of Nature-Based Solutions and Carbon Credits in a Changing World
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5 April 2024
The Rise of Interest in Forestry Investments
Forestry investment has grown steadily over the past 35 years to become a core part of many institutional investment portfolios.
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18 March 2024
Investing in Africa – An Introduction to the Af...
Responsibly managed plantation forestry in Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to offer attractive returns for development finance institutions and institutional investors.
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13 March 2024
New Forests makes two senior hires across investm...
SYDNEY: 13 March 2024 – New Forests, a global investment manager of nature-based real assets and n...
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11 March 2024
2024 seeing a ‘wave of optimism’ for nature i...
Following difficulties fundraising last year, 2024 has started with a “wave of optimism”, New Forests said, as it continues to expand its client base and move into new regions.
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21 February 2024
New Forests’ Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 to inv...
Investors from Asia Pacific and Europe contribute to restoring and conserving nature SINGAPORE: 2...
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20 December 2023
New Forests announces first close of Australia Ne...
Demand for natural capital grows as investors look to meet investment, climate, and nature goals
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29 November 2023
Alberta Investment Management Corporation and New...
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA & EDMONTON, CANADA: 29 November 2023 - Alberta Investment Management Corporati...
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17 November 2023
Asset owners head back to the forest amid natural...
For some institutional investors, agribusiness and forestry assets bring back memories of the global financial crisis.
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9 November 2023
Artificial intelligence used to monitor bushfires...
In an Australian first, artificial intelligence to monitor for bushfires, using new camera detection technology.
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19 October 2023
New Forests’ Timberlink manufactures its first ...
Increasing Australia’s sovereign capability to manufacture timber products while reducing reliance on imports
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5 October 2023
UniSuper, PPF and APG acquire Forico and Tasmania...
New Forests to continue as investment manager
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29 August 2023
New Forests’ Wenita Forest Products sponsors Ec...
Conservation Education Program
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8 August 2023
Making Money from Trees – podcast interview wit...
New Forests’ Sarah Clawson sat down with editor and host Maha Khan Phillips to discuss the growing appetite for forestry amongst institutional investors.
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31 July 2023
Aratu Forests builds in-house silviculture team
Bucking the trend with an in-house silviculture team focused on tree-thinning
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27 July 2023
Life changing scholarships and education support ...
Enhancing the livelihoods of local communities by facilitating access to tertiary education
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27 July 2023
Land on the iconic Pacific Coast Trail protected ...
Case study from The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in the United States
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27 July 2023
Environmental Finance Award Wins
New Forests is proud to have won two awards at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Investment Awards 2023
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22 June 2023
New Forests acquires McCloud Forest in California
New Forests acquires McCloud Forest in California
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8 June 2023
Sustainability Highlights
Climate Positive, Nature Positive, Shared Prosperity
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1 June 2023
Our Approach to Managing Business Integrity Risks...
Q&A with Paul Kennedy, Head of Risk & Compliance at New Forests, on approach to managing Business Integrity Risks
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28 April 2023
New Forests Sustainability Report 2022
New Forests' Sustainability Report 2022 shows how the investments New Forests manage are contributing to nature-based solutions, a circular bioeconomy and shared prosperity.
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26 April 2023
New Forests bolsters Africa team with five appoin...
New hires to drive business growth to help scale sustainable forestry in Sub-Saharan Africa
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2 February 2023
New Forests appoints Managing Director, North Ame...
Focused on scaling nature-based solutions, contributing to the circular bioeconomy and delivering impact to communities
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12 January 2023
Mark Rogers appointed Chief Executive Officer of ...
David Brand to take on the role as Chair of New Forests
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23 December 2022
New Forests’ reflections from COP15
The recent UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal has proven to be a turning point as biodiversity and nature are finally being brought to center stage...
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15 December 2022
New Forests’ outlook for Forestry Investment
In those outlooks the key themes included the steady shift of wood supply from harvesting extensive ...
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14 December 2022
New Forests’ outlook for Forestry Investment
In those outlooks the key themes included the steady shift of wood supply from harvesting extensive ...
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2 December 2022
New Forests launches new Australia New Zealand La...
Building on the success of New Forests’ previous ANZ forestry funds
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20 October 2022
New Forests announces first investors in African ...
Opportunity to scale sustainable forestry in Sub-Saharan Africa and deliver climate, community, and biodiversity benefits
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10 October 2022
Australia and New Zealand Carbon Market Insights
“Removals” are critical to achieving net zero, which is a state in which greenhouse gases releas...
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10 October 2022
US Carbon Market Insights
“Removals” are critical to achieving net zero, which by definition is a state in which greenhous...
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6 September 2022
New Forests launches New Agriculture and appoints...
New business division created to grow agriculture portfolio globally, starting in Australia and New Zealand
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14 July 2022
Regional profile: Investing in sustainable forest...
Australia and New Zealand are two of the world’s most stable economies. The plantation forest indu...
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14 July 2022
Regional profile: Investing in sustainable forest...
Responsibly managed Southeast Asian plantation forestry has the potential to offer attractive return...
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14 July 2022
Managing land where forestry and agriculture co-e...
Managing forests and farms together can be a win for agriculture, investors and the planet
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5 July 2022
FSC® Certified Veneer and Sawn Timber Mill Const...
Case Study from Mekong Timber Plantation in Laos
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5 July 2022
Sustainable Investment in Southeast Asian Plantat...
Case Study from the Tropical Asia Forest Fund in Laos
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4 July 2022
Wenita Predator Free Dunedin
Case Study analysis of the partnership with Predator Free Dunedin, New Zealand
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4 July 2022
New Zealand Honey Producer, Integrated Production...
Case Study analysis of a combined production of timber and honey function as an integrated production system, producing a range of benefits
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4 July 2022
Giving a Hoot about Northern Spotted Owls
Case Study analysis of the declining Northern spotted owl population in the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States
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4 July 2022
Managing Carbon from Investments in Natural Clima...
Large-scale investment in Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) is required as part of the transition to a...
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4 July 2022
Climate Disclosure Report 2020
Atmospheric carbon removal, climate mitigation, and landscape resilience will become increasingly important drivers within the forestry sector.
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4 July 2022
Biodiversity Risks and Opportunities
Report analysis on biodiversity
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27 June 2022
Timberlink First of its Kind Renewable, Carbon Po...
Case Study analysis of TImberlink, a business owned by New Forests' ANZFF
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27 June 2022
Partnering with Birdlife Australia for Species Mo...
Case Study analysis of the Forestry Investment Trust
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27 June 2022
Re-matriating Land to the Yurok Tribe in Northern...
In 2011, New Forests and the Yurok Tribe co-developed the first forest carbon project for California’s emissions trading scheme.
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16 May 2022
Is this the toughest part of addressing climate c...
Integrating land use, forestry and conservation into a comprehensive climate change mitigation and adaptation program has remained a struggle over the past 30 years.
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16 May 2022
Catalysing Sustainable Impact through Blended Fin...
New Forests has developed an innovative blended finance structure for its latest investment fund for Southeast Asia.
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16 May 2022
Smart Strategies for Mitigating Fire Risk
New Forests employs proven market-leading strategies in forestry and land management. This includes cutting edge techniques to prevent fires from starting and limiting their impact
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12 May 2022
Return Characteristics of the Forestry Asset Clas...
The forestry asset class has been attractive to institutional investors due to low correlation to other asset classes, natural inflation hedging and low volatility of returns.
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4 May 2022
Mitsui and Nomura enter agreement to acquire New ...
Mitsui and Nomura enter agreement to acquire New Forests
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3 March 2022
New Forests announces first close of Tropical Asi...
Institutional investors help to catalyze change across Southeast Asia’s forestry sector
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2 December 2021
Profile: Best Impact Fund of the Year 2021
The Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 from the sustainable real asset investor New Forests is this year’s winner of the Financial Investigator Impact Investing Award 2021
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3 November 2021
CDC Group, Finnfund, Norfund propose innovative p...
LONDON/SYDNEY: 03 November, 2021 - CDC Group (“CDC”), the UK’s development finance institution...
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6 September 2021
Macquarie Asset Management enters into agreement ...
SYDNEY: 6 September 2021 – Macquarie Asset Management today announced, after a public tender proce...
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13 August 2021
New Forests announces two key appointments and fo...
New Forests, the global forestry investment manager, today announces two key appointments.
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20 July 2021
New Forests acquires forestry properties from Fru...
156,000-acre forest further expands New Forests’ assets and capital under management in the US to ...
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9 July 2021
New Forests joins the PRI’s Inevitable Poli...
First Australian Asset Manager associated with the IPR SYDNEY – 9 July 2021 – New Forests Pty...
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19 May 2021
New Forests Announces Christine Loh as Independen...
SYDNEY: 18/05/2021 - New Forests announces Christine Loh as new independent director, expanding gl...
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14 January 2021
New Forests Appoints Adrian Williams as CFO
SYDNEY – 14 January 2021 – Sydney-based investment management firm New Forests has appointed Adr...
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10 June 2020
New Forests Asia attains Capital Markets Services...
New Forests Asia (Singapore) Pte Ltd announces its newly attained Capital Markets Services (CMS) Lic...
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8 May 2020
New Forests Announces Conversion of $1.3 billion ...
SYDNEY, 8 May 2020 – International forestry investment manager New Forests announced the extension...
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10 April 2020
New Forests Announces Forest Stewardship Council�...
SINGAPORE – 10 April 2020 – International sustainable forestry investor New Forests announced to...
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31 March 2020
New Forests Appoints Property Manager for Planned...
SYDNEY – 31 March 2020 – Australia-based forestry investor New Forests today announced that foll...
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12 March 2020
New Forests Publishes Climate Disclosure Report &...
SYDNEY – 12 March 2020 – International forestry investment manager New Forests today released it...
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27 February 2020
New Forests to Acquire Forestry Assets of Bunbury...
SYDNEY - 27 February 2020 -- Australia-based forestry investor New Forests today announced that inve...
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7 February 2020
New Forests to Purchase Tasmanian Plantations fro...
SYDNEY – 7 February 2020 – Australia-based international forestry investor New Forests has agree...
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5 December 2019
New Forests appoints property manager for Wairara...
SYDNEY/TAURANGA, 5 December 2019 – New Forests is pleased to announce the appointment of Forest En...
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3 July 2019
New Forests Settles Purchase of Hikurangi Forest ...
SYDNEY, 2 July 2019 – New Forests is pleased to announce that it has finalised the acquisition of ...
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