Quilter Investors launches timber equity strategy

The Quilter Investors Timber Equity will be managed by Pictet Asset Management and target companies driving sustainable forestry and the production of wood-based materials. Investee companies will also work to ensure trees are replanted and that re-growth is allowed to aid carbon capture, whilst seeking to maintain biodiversity. The fund will focus on players throughout the timber value chain providing bio-degradable substitutes to plastics, concrete or steel. It will exclude companies with exposure, above a certain level, to activities that are harmful to the environment or societ...