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Challenger sells $71 million forestry assets to Great Southern

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2004
... arrangement with Great Southern Plantations (GSP) for the rights and obligations to acquire approximately 84,000 hectares of forestry assets. Under the terms of the arrangement, GSP will acquire the forestry assets for $71 million, an increase of $17 ...

ASIC warning on Swiss offer

... and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a warning against replying to an unsolicited investment offer from Prime Forestry Group, a Swiss organisation with a return address in London. The mailshot offer promising returns of 14% pa in a 'conservative' ...

Kiwi industry profits up 42 per cent

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
... the third-most profitable sector, with an operating surplus of $6.2 billion, up 42 percent; followed by agriculture, forestry and fishing ($4.0 billion, up 24 percent); retail trade ($2.3 billion, up 49 percent); electricity, gas and water supply ($2.1 ...

Challenger acquires independent mortgage financier

... million and $48 million respectively. In order to secure Interstar, Challenger has agreed to acquire 84,500 hectares of forestry assets valued at $54 million on a twelve month deferred settlement basis. "Interstar offers terrific compatibility for Challenger ...

Productivity Commission report reveals Government business underperformance

... years. The most profitable sector was electricity; returning 6.4% on assets in 2001/02, up from 5.9% previously. Water, forestry and ports all returned 4.7%and railways returned 3.6%. Public transport companies had a zero return on assets. The businesses ...

Westpac signs up to social and environmental principles

... principles will be applied globally and to project financings in all industry sectors, including mining, oil and gas, and forestry.

Macquarie Forestry hails Lonsec recommendation

Macquarie Alternative Asset Management's forestry investment has been awarded a 'Highly Recommended' rating from Lonsec, and is the first agribusiness project to receive this rating, it has announced. The investment also received a four-star rating ...

van Eyk adds Dry to Agribusiness team

... of quantitative analysis, equity analysis and economic forecasting. WRF Capital has recently launched an institutional forestry product in a bid to capture some of the increased interest in the Agribusiness sector. It is offering units in a Tasmanian ...

Macquarie launches forestry product to retail investors

Macquarie Alternative Assets Management has launched a forestry product to the retail market in which investors can take part in a tree growing business and/or own the land on which the trees are planted, it has announced. The Macquarie Forestry Investment ...

WRF to launch Tasmanian blue gums offering

... Kangaroo Island in a bid to take advantage of the burgeoning trade in carbon credits, it has announced. "Our aim is to put forestry on the serious investment list for all investors, so that they look at the quality of the underlying asset rather than ...