Global Forestry Capital has announced the expansion of its Global Forestry Growth Fund to allow even more people to invest in its specialized investment fund.
The fund will now be available to investors throughout Europe, South America and the UK. It intends to provide returns of 8-10 per cent on an annual basis, which is an impressive claim. Jose C. Garcia, Global Forestry Capital’s Director, said, “Current results are exceeding all of our expectations, with a growing interest from a wide array of investment markets.
“We have recently signed important strategic alliances with very successful and experienced local partners across the globe, and look for this expansion into the rest of Europe and Latin America to accelerate this growing trend,” he added.
It seems that investors really can’t get enough of alternative investments at the moment, as they remove vast amounts of cash from the volatile stock markets and search desperately for that elusive ‘safe haven’.
Mr Garcia explained, “I truly believe our current rapid development is also due to our proposition’s minimal correlation to the global markets, whose present volatility has resulted in the growing awareness of alternative assets in the investment community.”
Although forestry funds can diversity portfolios, an even better way of avoiding correlation with the markets is direct investment in forestry through a specialist product such as that offered by Greenwood Management.
Greenwood has several plantations of non-native trees in Brazil, in which individual or institutional investors can buy a plot. The investors receive regular returns and Greenwood spends the investments on expanding its plantation business further, thus increasing returns for investors.
