Terms and queries about investing in forestry
In our opinion, no one is too old to invest in forestry! Forestry investment is a long-term investment for around 26 years, but need not be, as your investment can be sold via a tender process which we can facilitate for you. Many parents and grandparents appreciate the longer term of the investment as being [...]
The answer is an unqualified no. As all the forestry land in Forest Enterprises' investment schemes is private land which has not been previously owned by a state-owned enterprise, it is legally protected from any Maori claims to the Waitangi Tribunal.
The Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 requires the manager of a registered Managed Investment Scheme to prepare an Annual Report on the affairs of the scheme during the accounting period ending on the balance date. The contents of the annual report are prescribed in Financial Markets Conduct Regulations 2014. The Annual Report must be prepared and [...]
New Zealand’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 requires us, as a financial services provider, to undertake due diligence on all new customers which involves gathering information about customer identity and residential address, verifying a customer's identity, and undertaking ongoing customer due diligence and account monitoring.
The buyer or transferee of shares in a managed investment scheme.
The seller or transferor of shares in a managed investment scheme.
The financial year-end balance date. For a Forest Enterprises investment this is either 31 December, 31 March, 30 June or 30 September.
The name of the regular instalment payments by investors, required to meet their share of the annual budget for forest management and other services. The term also covers other contributions investors must make for the development and management of the investment which is prudent or necessary. The largest amount of funding is required in Year One in order to [...]
All of the Post-1989 forests promoted by Forest Enterprises have entered into a into a commercial arrangement with a company called New Zealand Forest Leasing Ltd (NZFL), resulting in the carbon in the Post-1989 areas of the forest being leased to New Zealand Carbon Leasing (No. 1) Limited, a subsidiary of NZFL, in return for [...]
Cost of Timber is a technical area of New Zealand Tax law relating to deductions for certain forestry expenditure. The main purpose of section DP 11 of the Income Tax Act 2007 is to allow a deduction for certain forestry expenditure that might not otherwise be deductible. A vendor is entitled to deduct the ‘cost [...]