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Because the New Zealand forest industry is our third largest export earner it is of national importance and responsibility for protecting the forest estate falls to a number of government agencies. If the forest resource is threatened, the government acts. Pests and diseases spread relatively slowly in forests, and it can take many years before [...]
With many of our forest investments approaching harvesting age, this question from investors is understandable because it is an indication of when to expect investment returns. Indicative harvest dates have been reported each year in the investment’s annual Financial Report, reflecting the expectations in the original Prospectus to harvest exactly at tree age 28 years. [...]
Wood is the key to increasing workplace productivity according to a new research report. Workplaces, Wellness and Wood, prepared for Forest & Wood Products Australia by strategic research firm Pollinate and the University of Canberra, provides fresh evidence supporting for biophilia – the principle that exposure to nature increases human well-being. The study found the more [...]
Forest Enterprises Limited has appointed Yogesh Mody as the new Independent Director from 1 September. Forest Enterprises Limited is the licensed manager of forestry Managed Investment Schemes. “Yogesh brings an exceptional background in financial markets regulation, managed funds, risk management and business development”, says Forest Enterprises’ Managed Investments Director, Graeme Tindall. Forest Enterprises has a [...]
The weather bombs that hit the East Coast in February and March this year were widely reported in the news. Many operating forests in the region saw significant damage from flooding. Gisborne District council declared a state of emergency, closing all infrastructure to heavy transport for a period. The flooding and state of emergency resulted [...]
The Hawke's Bay Forest Group comprises three forest investments in Hawke's Bay which are considering a proposal by manager Forest Enterprises to harvest as a collective. The joint venture participant forest investments are Esk Valley, Glenross and Hampton. The information on this page is for the benefit of the investors in the participant forests [...]
New Zealand Forest Owners Association, 26 March 2019: Forest Owners want clarity for what New Zealand plantation forestry is expected to deliver on climate change targets. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, has just issued a report which downplays the contribution of forestry in sequesting atmospheric carbon, and instead wants to drive down fossil [...]
In August 2016, Forest Enterprises has become an anchor tenant in the redeveloped log hub at the Waingawa rail yard near Masterton. The facility is a transport hub where logs are delivered by truck, scaled (measured for export volume), and stored pending rail transport to Wellington’s port. This infrastructure is significant for providing a reliable, [...]
There are two main ways you can invest in forestry. You can invest directly into the ownership of the trees (which normally also includes ownership of the land on which the trees are growing), or indirectly through shares in a listed forestry company or other managed fund. We refer to these two options as ‘direct’ [...]
No, we do not offer a lump-sum full payment option for new issue investments. The main reason why is that forestry is by nature a contributory investment. A crop of trees is planted, intensively tended during the first 10 years (the pruning and thinning) then managed through until harvest over a 25 to 30 year [...]
