All Forestry/Agriculture articles
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White papersGoing long on permanent crops: long-term demand fundamentals of almonds and pistachios
Understanding the supply-and-demand fundamentals of tree nuts is critical for investors considering long-term investments in the agriculture sector.
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White papersA balancing act: how can sustainably managed forests offer investment opportunities while protecting forestland and safeguarding biodiversity?
While the notions of natural capital and nature-based solutions are spreading amongst the investment community, the initial focus has been on a forest’s ability to sequester and store carbon. When it comes to forests as a solution to the biodiversity crisis, very few investors new to forestry investing know what sustainable forest management endeavours to achieve, and why it can indeed be one of the answers to safeguarding biodiversity.
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White papersTimberland - Resilience, opportunity amid economic uncertainty
The investment landscape as we enter 2025 remains colored by economic uncertainty, geopolitical risk, inflationary pressures, high interest rates, volatile capital markets, and the unknown future of global trade policy.
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White papersThe fundamentals of sustainable forestry investing
Sustainable timberland investments offer investors traditional portfolio diversification benefits alongside new opportunities for positive impact, say Manulife’s Thomas Sarno, David Fortin and Mary Ellen Aronow.
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White papersProving resilience and durability
As a top-performing asset class for about a century, farmland has proven time and again to have upside growth potential and to be resilient throughout various economic scenarios. It is an essential global property sector tied to food production. Jim McCandless and Daniel Murray, co-CIOs for farmland at UBS Asset Management, discuss why more investors are looking to add farmland into their investment portfolios.
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White papersValuing nature is an economic imperative
Valuing nature and the wealth of natural systems can play a greater role in how we approach investing. We outline why this matters for the economy and our world.
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VideoThe role of natural capital in long-term savings
Our natural capital journey—as the world’s largest investment manager of natural capital assets,* Manulife Investment Management’s Global Head of Institutional Colin Fitzgerald shares how nearly 40 years of experience has refined our understanding of natural capital’s potential for addressing critical environmental challenges, and why these long duration assets are a natural fit for insurance companies and pension funds.
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White papersNuveen Natural Capital 2024 Sustainability Report
Nuveen Natural Capital’s 2024 Sustainability Report describes the activities that underpin our Nature, Climate, People sustainability strategy in our managed global farmland, timberland and environmental restoration operations.
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White papersHow carbon markets bolster timberland investing
As more and more investors look to integrate natural capital strategies into their portfolios, timberland is proving to be an obvious beneficiary. Thomas Sarno, global head of timberland investing, believes that now is an ideal time to invest in the asset class.
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White papersAligning with global sustainability standards benefits investors
Reporting on climate risk has come a long way in recent years. Now, with the convergence of major standards, the promise of a global baseline for sustainability reporting is closer than ever.
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White papersStart with the farmer
California farmers lead the way in sustainable agriculture while navigating water infrastructure limitations.
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White papersRegenerative agriculture: definition, implementation, and impact
Feeding a growing population in a world of increasingly scarce natural resources will require sustainable solutions, which is where regenerative agriculture could play a critical role. For investors, building and sustainably managing a globally diversified portfolio of agricultural assets can generate competitive risk-adjusted returns while providing socioeconomic and environmental ...
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White papersThe continuing evolution of investment stewardship
In less than a decade, stewardship has become a central area of investor interest and action. From the Paris Agreement of 2015 to today, questions of stewardship around systemic risks have gone from periodic to practically obligatory. Investment stewardship is now a key factor of asset owner decision-making when entrusting investment managers with their assets.
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White papersThe global water challenge: risks and opportunities that all investors should consider
Manulife Investment Management is committed to helping clients achieve their objectives, build resilient portfolios—including in relation to climate change—and, where appropriate, positively affect nature. We believe water-related risks and opportunities can be financially material factors that should be integrated into investment strategies and operational asset management.
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White papersExpanding the efficient frontier with natural capital investments
The combination of investment characteristics associated with institutional investment in timberland and agriculture offers a compelling rationale for their inclusion in larger multi-asset portfolios, and ultimately allows for the expansion of the efficient frontier, as determined by traditional mean-variance portfolio optimization.
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White papersInvesting in the power of nature
The crisis facing the world’s biodiversity has become front of mind for policymakers and investors in recent years. Investing in natural capital—the world’s stock of natural resources that combine to yield a flow of benefits—represents an exciting investment innovation that can achieve a range of positive impacts and create opportunities outside of traditional investment silos.
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White papersActive management drives sustainable forest value & returns
For generations, forests have been recognised by land managers and local communities for the benefits they provide: clean water, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, microclimate stabilisation, aesthetic beauty, and, when actively managed, the sustainable generation of forest products.
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White papersDiversifying with natural capital
Improving efficiency in traditional stock-bond portfolios through diversification may be limited because the average correlation across securities can be high. In contrast, the lack of correlation across diverse natural capital investment strategies offers great potential for efficiency improvements via portfolio design.
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White papersInstitutional farmland ownership: facilitating the separation of farming operations from its capital base
Institutional investment in farmland is popularly perceived as one of the contributing factors to the consolidation occurring within the agricultural industry, a misconception which deserves scrutiny.
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