UPM and Taaleritehdas have agreed today on the sale of 6,000 hectares of forest land. The estates are located in Central and Eastern Finland in Pyhäntä, Utajärvi, Kiuruvesi and Ilomantsi. At the same time the parties have signed an agreement on wood trade and forest services. It has been agreed by the parties not to disclose the purchase price.

Wealth Management Company Taaleritehdas’ new fund “Taaleritehtaan Metsä” is a totally new way to own forest. It offers the investors an easy and effortless way to buy a piece of forest land and enjoy regular income from forest ownership. Professional forestry as well as sales and purchase improve return. The forest specialist with the fund together with the UPM forest professionals are responsible for the timely forest management on the estates now purchased by Taaleritehdas.

The estates acquired today from UPM are the first forest properties within the fund. It will acquire more forest land during the next two years when suitable estates are available. Investors in the fund are private Finnish investors as well as institutional investors and organisations.

“As an investment, forest is suitable for Finnish investors. It is a concrete ownership which spreads the risk in the portfolio as well. The earnings from forest ownership have not correlated with the other investments like shares and interest rates. Additionally forest ownership offers an inflation hedge as the wood price has traditionally followed the inflation rate,” says Juhani Elomaa, Managing Director of Taaleritehdas.

“Taaleritehtaan Metsä is a new and interesting way to increase the interest in the forests, forest ownership and sustainable use of the forests. UPM shares this aim and therefore we are pleased to act as an enabler in this process,” says Sauli Brander, Vice President, Forestry Business, UPM.