INVEST IN FOREST - 1st international conference on forest investment in Baltic Sea region

Date

24 April 2012 to 25 April 2012

description

1st international conference on forest investment in the Baltic Sea region Address: 6 Duntes Street, Riga, LV-1013, Latvia 
Phone: +371 6737 9034 | Fax: +371 6737 9072
E-mail: toms.andersons@investforest.com | www.investforest.com

 

 

Do not miss the opportunity to network with the forest industry’s decision makers, including state and private forest companies, private forest owners, forest owner associations, EU authorities, timber processing and bio-fuel production companies, investment advisers, law firms, financial institutions and asset managers.

Early bird rate 499EUR ends 1st March, 2012. Click here to register

Insight into the Conference content:

Development scenario of timber, pulp and energy wood market:

  • in the context of “EU renewable energy target 20% by 2020”
  • in the opinion of global players’, like SCA
  • in the examples of state owned forest companies – Sveaskog and Estonian State Forest (RMK)

Investment considerations in timberland as asset class:

  • Key factors for increasing the value of biological (forest) assets
  • Case study of 3 different forestland transactions in the Baltic Sea region.
  • What yields are better – those of Brazilian plantations, Romanian broad leaf forests or Baltic and Nordic boreal forests?

Long term view. Hundreds of years of forest ownership.

  • How is forest managed as an asset in centuries long ownership?
  • What are performance targets: returns, value criteria and management technics/mandate?

Presenters include the most successful forestland investors and experts:

Arne Rora, CEO of NORSKOG, expert in global financial investment in forest

S.E. Johannes Graf Fugger-Babenhausen, Fürst Fugger Privatbank, the oldest private bank in Europe with an historic focus on forest investment

Aigar Kallas, CEO of Estonian State Forest Company (RMK)

Dr. Harald Textor, asset manager of Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds, fund created for the royal family of Bavaria, Germany

Count Carl-Gustaf Wachtmeister, Chairman of “Ingleby Farms and Forests”, a Danish based family farming and forestry company with presence on 4 continents

Ernest Dochnal, Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting Oy, a global consulting and engineering company

Emmanuel Steinbeis, Acquisition and Asset Management, Catella Real Estate 
KAG, Focus Global Forest Fund

Kristian Areskog, Senior Vice President of SCA Skog AB, SCA is Europe’s largest private forest owner and SCA Skog is part of SCA’s Forest Products business area

See full Conference Program

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See you in the Conference and its social events!

For more information, please contact me toms.andersons@investforest.com or call +371 67379034



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