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Government rolls out relief via National Reconstruction Fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2026
... $1 billion Economic Resilience Program, $5 billion Net Zero Fund, and $150 million in concessional finance under the Forestry Growth Fund. These programs are all sub-funds under the government's $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund. The Economic ...

Productivity slumps again, capital injection needed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... year and well below the 1.6% annual average increases between 1994-95 to 2003-04. At an industry level, agriculture, forestry and fishing led MFP growth at 10.4% over the last year. Mining saw its fifth consecutive year of declining MFP and had the largest ...

NGS Super appoints Robeco to manage two new mandates

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... commitment to sustainability initiatives, including its commitment to Gresham House's new Sustainable International Forestry Strategy Platform in December of last year. The fund has also undergone significant transitions since mid-2025, ending its ...

NGS Super backs Gresham House forestry platform

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
Specialist alternative asset manager Gresham House has completed the first close of its Sustainable International Forestry Strategy Platform. It secured over $440 million in commitments, including an investment from NGS Super. Driven by a nationwide ...

Stafford Capital establishes $1.8bn forestry fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
Stafford Capital Partners has established a $1.8 billion (US$1.2bn) continuation vehicle, the Stafford International Timberland Continuation Fund. The continuation fund is a roll-up of three of Stafford's existing core timberland funds - Stafford International ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... haven't seen a lot of it more recently," he says. What has taken off, though, is investments in opportunities like forestry, which are linked to climate change and ideal for investors who want to take advantage of potential carbon offsets and credits. ...

New Forests beefs up local landscapes fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... practices and reduce its emissions. The acquisition is being made via New Forests' Australia New Zealand Landscapes and Forestry Fund (ANZLAFF), which received about $600 million from institutional investors across Asia Pacific and Europe earlier this ...

BUSSQ's boardroom brass cleared, CFMEU spend deemed sound

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
Queensland-based industry super fund BUSSQ, which has ties to the scandal-plagued Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) through its board, emerged largely unscathed from an independent report by KPMG. BUSSQ was hit with ...

New Forests sees potential in Vietnamese timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... investment made by the fund, which also recently acquired a stake in Laos-based timber plantation company Burapha Agro-Forestry. Tavico was founded in 2005 as a log trader and sawn timber mill. Today it also has a distribution centre and operations across ...

New Forests buys into Burapha

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
New Forests has acquired a majority interest in Burapha Agro-Forestry, a timber plantation forestry company in Laos. New Forests' Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2) together with Mirova's sustainable land use strategy have invested in Burapha ...
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