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First Super appoints to board

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2023
Forestry industry leader Mick Stephens will join the First Super board as an associate director. Stephens brings over 30 years' experience to the role, having worked in the forestry industry and related fields as a resource economist, including ...

NGS ahead of schedule on net zero strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2023
... utilisation and storage (CCUS). "We're looking at natural capital - biodiversity and the credits they can contain - through forestry and those assets, they're the primary areas that we are working on at the moment," Squires said. "This research ...

Tax miners, major corporates to tackle housing shortage: CFMEU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is calling for the introduction of a $28 billion annual super profits tax to close the gap in social and affordable housing. The CFMEU commissioned Oxford Independent Economics to ...

Ag sector boosts Australia's productivity

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... financial year, found that the agricultural sector was the biggest contributor to growth and productivity. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing recorded the highest growth of 21.2% based on multifactor productivity (MFP) measures, which calculates the ...

UniSuper spends $1bn on European mobile towers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
... portfolio, including Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane Airports, Transurban Chesapeake, as well as a growing allocation to forestry assets. "This is a high-quality defensive infrastructure investment with strong fundamentals and growth prospects. It adds ...

Stafford Capital Partners launches sustainable timber impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... tonne of C02). Timber investments historically generate approximately 5% return on investment, but the combination of the forestry activity with carbon offset activity is aimed at strengthening that return, said Stafford Capital Partners chief executive ...

New Forests appoints chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023
... record across our Australia, New Zealand and United States businesses with a vision to see investment in land use and forestry as key to the transition to a sustainable future," Brand said. New Forests will now undertake a search for a new head of the ...

TV personality to lead Stafford Capital distribution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
... part of the solution to the climate change challenge and Stafford is one of the biggest investors in carbon reducing forestry plantations on the planet," Morgan said. "I look forward to joining an organisation with a great culture and strong track record ...

New Forests launches new division, appoints team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... operations and growth of its existing portfolio of agricultural assets and has been responsible for divesting properties from forestry to agricultural markets. Most recently he led the successful Lawson Grains transaction. Rogers commented on how the ...

Casey Thompson joins First Super board

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2022
... leadership was central to the creation of universal superannuation. Thompson is a compliance officer for the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union manufacturing division. She has worked in a variety of compliance, audit, and communications ...