There are clear signs wherever you look nowadays that forestry investment is attracting the bigger institutional investments funds. I stumbled across a number of articles over the weekend, here’s one to mull over…
The article focuses on Earth Capital Partners (ECP), which is effectively a private equity company specialising in renewable energy markets for investment. Now that’s becoming a recurring theme here at forestry-invest, and I’ve been banging on about the appeal of wood energy markets as an investment. Our sponsors, Greenwood Management are obviously very much at the forefront of renewable energy investments but i do try to retain as much objectivity as possible. The case for wood energy investments, as part of a diversified investment portfolio, does seem to be getting finally picked up by the financial community.
According to the article, ECT have taken on a forestry investment team from IBIS Capital Management and EMP Global.
What is also notable from the article, is that the forestry and agricultural investment team has a brief to focus on deploying the investment capital into Latin America in particular with a number of institutional grade funds.
Quoting directly Stanley Fink, non-executive chairman of Earth Capital Partners:
“Appointing this new agriculture team takes us one step closer to having a diversified range of sustainable investment opportunities for institutional investors. One of the positive developments to come out of Copenhagen was an agreement regarding deforestation and reforestation, and this will make the sector even more attractive for investors. ECP’s Earth Dividend adds another layer of value in this sector clearly differentiating our product from others in the market.”
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February 1st, 2010 at 1:51 pm
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February 5th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
yeah this sector seesm to be getting some of the bigger instis biting…i used to work for one of the smaller funds but the investment criteria would n’t let us go into the sector…since the crash, lots of their paramaters changed which allows them to take positons in smaller cap situations/companies/different risk profiles….anything under 250 million cap would be off limits before. will put on the watchlist. cheers, Darren
February 20th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Follow up post..taken quite a big position here with greenwood management , so talkng my own book here i guess. Happy to wait this out now, as can only see charcoal markets risng.Done plenty of d/d on behalf of a large investor too, but as always, dyor applies.
There’s a big growth story here, fingers crossed. Governement move to charcoal was a tipping point. As always, BLASH.
Good luck
Darren,