Leadership

The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group ("TIG") leadership team has more than 800 combined years of investment, agribusiness and timberland management experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability. Having led timberland organizations for decades, the team has navigated multiple economic cycles.

History

TIG’s predecessor group was created in 1981 and was a pioneer in timberland investing when it started the first commingled timberland fund for institutional investors. Since then, TIG has grown to be one of the largest global timberland investment management organizations (“TIMO”), with over two million acres under management across four continents with nearly US$ 3.5 billion in assets and commitments.

Culture

BTG Pactual believes that the firm’s culture of meritocracy and innovation is an important competitive advantage that drives its strategic focus, internal collaboration, and its performance-based management.

 

 

Key Facts

TIG is one of the largest timberland managers globally (1):

  • Nearly US$ 3.5 billion in assets and commitments(2)
  • Nearly 2.6 million acres invested across the U.S. and Latin America(2)(3)
  • Geographic diversity with assets throughout the U.S. and Latin America(2)(3)
  • Executed more than 230 transactions since inception(4)
  • Returned more than US$ 2.2 billion to investors since inception(4)
  • Combined 800 years of investment, agribusiness and timberland management experience

TIG believes that it operates a differentiated platform due to its strong alignment of interests, reliance on a deep and experienced team, and its proven ability to operate within the global commercial timberland sector.

Strategy

TIG’s investments are built around broad strategic insights, bottom-up research, hands-on investment management, and careful monitoring of portfolios based on a solid analytical framework. TIG’s continuous improvement methodology keeps the team focused on the investment solutions offered to clients. Product innovation is fostered with close communication between the client services, global investment and distribution teams. Innovative ideas are incubated in an environment that values research, knowledge, insight and productive debate.

Best-in-Class Sustainable Forestry Practices

TIG is committed to investing in a sustainable manner and believes it can achieve compelling investment returns while applying high standards of environmental and social governance. TIG is keenly focused on sustainable forestry practices and maintaining productive, respectful relationships with the local communities, labor and tax practices in the regions in which it invests. TIG and its parent company, BTG Pactual, have operated under the UN Principles for Responsible Investment ("PRI") since 2015, and TIG’s properties have been third-party certified under Forest Stewardship Council® ("FSC") and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification™ ("PEFC") standards since 2003.

Sources: (1) RISI, 2019; (2) Numbers shown are as of December 31, 2019; (3) Not including assets in Europe and South Africa that represent less than 2% of AUM; (4) Since inception for distribution purposes is 1Q1990

 



 

With more than 800 years of investment, agribusiness and timberland experience amongst its 80+ team members, TIG is unmatched in its experience and commitment to sustainably-managed commercial timberland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TIG’s global, diversified portfolio includes nearly 2.6 million acres across four continents

(as of 12/31/2019)

United States
1,315,749 acres

Latin America
1,131,443 acres

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Not including assets in Europe and South Africa that represent less than 2% of AUM


 

 

TIG is one of the world’s oldest and largest timberland investment management organizations. (1)
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Sources: (1) RISI, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

Why Now?

-Transaction Availability
-Recovering Housing Market
-Historically Low Land Prices
-Consistent Demand for Mixed Quality Hardwoods
-Pacific Northwest Demand

-Scale, Stability, Diversity

Why Now?

-Transaction Availability
-Recovering Housing Market
-Historically Low Land Prices
-Consistent Demand for Mixed Quality Hardwoods
-Pacific Northwest Demand

Scale: World’s largest forest products sector and privately owned timber resource (Source: RISI, 2016)

Stability: Mature, stable economy with high domestic production and consumption

Diversity: Many forest types with a deep forest industry that produces a variety of products

Why Now?

-Transaction Availability
-Recovering Housing Market
-Historically Low Land Prices
-Consistent Demand for Mixed Quality Hardwoods
-Pacific Northwest Demand

Scale: World’s largest forest products sector and privately owned timber resource (Source: RISI, 2016)

Stability: Mature, stable economy with high domestic production and consumption

Diversity: Many forest types with a deep forest industry that produces a variety of products

SOUTH AMERICA

Why Now?

-Similar to the US in recent decades, forest products companies initiating timberland divestment cycle to focus on balance sheet efficiency
-Foreign land ownership restrictions have reduced timberland investment since 2010

-Secular (demand and regulatory driven) shift away from of native forests to plantation forests

Why Now?

-Similar to the US in recent decades, forest products companies initiating timberland divestment cycle to focus on balance sheet efficiency
-Foreign land ownership restrictions have reduced timberland investment since 2010

-Secular (demand and regulatory driven) shift away from of native forests to plantation forests

Biological Growth: Fastest in the world with shortest timber rotations

Domestic Consumption: Growing middle class creates rapid rise in domestic wood use

Exports: Fast-growing global markets for pulp and solid wood products

Why Now?

-Similar to the US in recent decades, forest products companies initiating timberland divestment cycle to focus on balance sheet efficiency
-Foreign land ownership restrictions have reduced timberland investment since 2010

-Secular (demand and regulatory driven) shift away from of native forests to plantation forests

Biological Growth: Fastest in the world with shortest timber rotations

Domestic Consumption: Growing middle class creates rapid rise in domestic wood use

Exports: Fast-growing global markets for pulp and solid wood products

South America
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Responsible Investment & ESG

TIG is committed to responsible investment practices across all assets under its management. TIG carefully evaluates environmental and social governance attributes (“ESG”) before making any investment decision. As institutional investors, TIG believes it has a duty to act in the best long-term interests of our beneficiaries. We recognize that ESG issues can affect the performance of investment portfolios. TIG believes that application of the following nine principles, better aligns our investments with the broader goals of society.

Responsible Investment and Governance

TIG's Nine Responsible Investment Principles

  1. Strictly comply with all environmental, social, health and safety laws, regulations, and standards
  2. Foster environmental protection and enhance biodiversity conservation
  3. Respect and uphold human rights in all operations and contracts
  4. Develop supply chains and prioritize local hiring
  5. Strictly comply with anti-corruption and bribery regulations
  6. Establish an open dialogue with the communities where TIG manages timberlands
  7. Promote ESG awareness among employees by developing and providing specific training programs
  8. Report ESG performance with clarity and transparency
  9. Commit publicly to global initiatives that strengthen our values

 

Measuring ESG

TIG’s key performance indicators ("KPI’s") as they relate to sustainability are comprehensive and include:

  • Confirmation of pre-acquisition environmental integrity
  • Forest certification status
  • Chemical & production inputs
  • Forest productivity & soil health
  • Protection of special sites & biodiversity
  • Labor compliance
  • Worker health & safety
  • Ownership & local land rights
  • Indigenous rights
  • Community involvement & landowner outreach
  • Corporate commitment & responsibility
  • Commitment to continuous improvement
  • Tracking & resolution of environmental non-compliance
  • Appropriate ESG resources
  • Annual executive review

Forest Certification

TIG is an active partner with the world’s leading environmental and sustainability organizations that specialize in forest certification.
BTG Pactual Global Responsible Investment Policy
Responsible Investment & ESG
ESG Annual Report – 2017/2018
ESG Annual Report - 2019

 

 


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