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Diapason To Launch ForestCare Investment Fund
Diapason to launch ForestCare Investment Fund Mon, 20/05/2013 – 12:03 Independent commodity investment firm Diapason Commodities Management is to launch the ForestCare Investment Fund, an institutional product investing in tangible forestry assets. The ForestCare investment universe will cover forest plantations and resulting activities and services such as forest management, wood production and processing, and all investments will be subject to a strict environmental, social and governance (ESG) filter prior to being included in the portfolio. The fund will take a multi-asset class approach, investing in equities, bonds, forest plots, and forest-related derivatives. Forest plots will form up to 20 per cent of the portfolio where revenue will come from both forestry products and capital gains, and will include plots or land leases exclusively in Europe (land partially or totally covered by forest) to take advantage of the comparatively low levels of private forestry investment in this region. As well as the ownership and operation of European forest plots, the fund will also invest in shares and bonds of companies operating responsibly in the forestry industry, as well as bonds of public and private sector debtors issued to finance projects in this sector. Also included will be forest-related derivatives and other investment instruments related to the forestry theme, including biodiversity credits, credits related to mitigating deforestation (REDD credits) and carbon credits. Mark McDonnell, managing director of Diapason Commodities Management, says: “ForestCare is a completely new way of approaching investment in forestry and with our approach to bio-diversity in forests this investment opportunity has forest sustainability at its core. Crucially, the fund is structured to reconcile economic profitability with the need to make intelligent use of natural resources – providing investors with a diversified portfolio which is uncorrelated with other asset classes.” ForestCare is aimed at the pension fund and institutional investor market and will have three monthly liquidity and a minimum investment of EUR125,000 for the A class and EUR1,000,000 for institutional (I) class. Continue reading
Investing In Water Will Make Some Extremely Rich: Jim Rogers
Bloomberg | Singapore April 16, 2013 Jim Rogers, the investor who foresaw the start of a commodity rally in 1999, said he was “extremely optimistic” about investing in water amid a scarcity of supply in countries from India to the US. “If you can find ways to invest in water, you will be extremely rich because we do have a serious water problem in many parts of the world like India, China, the southwestern part of the US, and west of the Red Sea,” Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told reporters at his home in Singapore today. The world’s growing food demand will create a progressive shortage in supplies, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Water used in farming will rise 70 to 90 per cent through 2050 as food demand doubles over the same period in emerging countries, Pasquale Steduto, principal officer of the FAO’s water development and management unit, said in March. “There are some companies out there that clean and transport water,” Rogers said, adding that he has owned shares in Singapore’s water-treatment company, Hyflux Ltd, for a few years. “Find one with good management and invest in it and you’ll be rich.” Continue reading
