News & Insights

Stafford Capital Partners today launched its 2023/24 Sustainability Report, which captures the firms’ sustainability efforts over the last year. The report highlights that Stafford's timberland assets under management sequestered an aggregate 15.9 million tonnes of carbon over 2023/24, the rough equivalent to the annual emissions of the city of Rome.

Stafford Capital Partners has made the first two investments for its new Stafford Carbon Offsets Opportunities Fund totalling over USD 70 million and comprising significant parcels of land in both Brazil and New Zealand.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) has today announced that it has been selected as a manager for the ACCESS Pool in global core timberland, and as ACCESS’ sole global impact timberland manager.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) is pleased to announce that its Australian PE co-investment program with First Super has now been converted into an Evergreen structure, further cementing the strong relationship Stafford has developed with First Super over nearly two decades. 

Stafford Capital Partners is delighted to be able to confirm today “QP4”, a new A$250m global private equity co-investment mandate with HESTA, the A$83 billion Australian industry superannuation fund.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”), a leading international private markets investment and advisory group, with USD$7.9b under management has launched its flagship Private Equity Decarbonization Program.

In our latest infrastructure whitepaper, we observe how the infrastructure secondaries market continues to grow steadily into 2024 with significant new flows of secondary deals coming to the market.

Stafford Capital Partners is delighted to announce today that it has joined the International Sustainable Forestry Coalition (ISFC), a new body that will work across the timberland sector to promote the environmental and other benefits of a robust global forestry industry.

This release is restricted to Professional Investors outside of the USA & Canada

Stafford Capital Partners Scores High on the 2023 UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Assessment Report. The firm secured 5/5 stars on three out of four assessed modules.

Stafford Capital Partners has finalised the deployment of its fourth infrastructure secondaries fund, SISF IV, and made the first investment of its fifth fund, SISF V

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) has partnered with the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) on their 100th year anniversary to produce ‘Pensions at Work 100’ by ITN Business.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) has published its third annual Sustainability Report, summarising the firm’s impact on sustainability in 2022/2023.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”), a leading international private markets investment and advisory group, has appointed Marta Jankovic as Head of Sustainability. Marta assumes the role with immediate effect and will be based in Stafford’s Rotterdam office, reporting to CEO, Angus Whiteley.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Joe Carrabes as Head of Client Solutions in North America. Joe’s appointment signals an important moment for Stafford’s business development as it expands its operations in the US and North America.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Victoria Sherliker as Chief Compliance Officer. Based in London, Victoria will report to General Counsel, Jim Marsh who joined the firm in February 2023.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) is pleased to announce that it has appointed Valentina Abbott as Global Head of Client Solutions, based in London, to help accelerate investment in the firm’s sustainable alternative investment vehicles.

Brett Himbury helped drive the Australian superannuation sector’s infrastructure boom. Now he’s ready for a second bite of the cherry.

In this Stafford diaries edition, we will examine the impact of the current macroeconomic forces (such as inflation, interest rate movement and market downturn)  both for LP and GP-led infrastructure secondaries:

In our first Stafford Private Credit diary, we discuss how private credit can serve as an attractive alternative for investors and how it can meet their objectives amid challenging market conditions.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) has appointed Stephen Milburn-Pyle, former head of the Australia Post Superannuation Scheme (APSS), to its Credit Investment Committee.

Stafford expands timberland offering to support the institutional decarbonisation agenda with a USD 242m initial close of the Stafford Carbon Offset Opportunity Fund.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”), is pleased to announce that it has invested approximately EUR 50 million through a secondary transaction in Vauban Infrastructure Partners’ 2012 vintage greenfield fund FIDEPPP2.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”), a leading international private markets investment and advisory group, has launched Stafford Infrastructure Secondaries Fund V (“SISF V”), its fifth infrastructure secondaries fund.

HESTA, an Australian super fund dedicated to people working in health and community services and a leader in sustainable investing, is committing a further USD 200m to the HESTA Sustainable Capital Investment Trust (“HSCIT”), a targeted private equity investment program managed in partnership with Stafford Capital Partners.

Senior ABC TV finance presenter Elysse Morgan will join Stafford Capital Partners in 2023, to lead the firm’s business development agenda in Australia.

Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) has appointed Sarah Ely as Head of Human Resources.

Essex Pension Fund has made a GBP 100m anchor commitment to the Stafford Carbon Offset Opportunity Fund as it further expands its global timberland portfolio and accelerates its transition to Net Zero.

After 10 years as chief executive at IFM, Himbury is still making a difference as chairman of alternatives investor Stafford.